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How to Get Your Mojo Back

Cycling, in its various forms, is a sport that I’ve always been passionate about.

Last year I completed the London to Paris charity bike ride, with my husband and sister, and in preparation for this I committed a huge amount of time and energy to training and fundraising. The training was challenging but always enjoyable and I rarely lost the motivation to ride several times a week and every weekend.
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A Lesson in Resilience: How Lance Armstrong Wins Even When He Loses

Whatever you think of the cyclist Lance Armstrong, you cannot deny that he is one of the most remarkable athletes of his generation. Following a successful early career as a triathlete he went on to win the Tour de France a record seven straight times between 1999 and 2005. This is an incredible achievement in itself but when you consider that he achieved this having recovered from advanced testicular cancer it is extraordinary.
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A Summary of the Solutions Focused Approach for Business Coaching

Following yesterday’s blog article on the excellent OSKAR framework for solutions focused business coaching (as outlined by Paul Jackson and Mark McKergow in their superb book ‘The Solutions Focus: Making Coaching and Change Simple’, I thought we’d continue this theme with a summary of the fundamental assumptions and principles that underpin solutions-focused work as outlined by the authors …
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The OSKAR Framework for Solutions-Focused Business Coaching

OSKAR is an excellent framework for solutions-focused business coaching, outlined by Paul Jackson and Mark KcKergow in their excellent book “The Solutions Focus: Making Coaching and Change SIMPLE”.
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Are You Working Harder Than a Medieval Peasant?

Does the following quote about working life in the 16th century bare any resemblance to your typical working day?
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Watt Works Featured in Systems Engineering Newsletter

Our 7-day blog series on Systems Thinking 101: The Magic of Systems Thinking was featured in the monthly Systems Engineering newsletter of Project Performance International (PPI), named “SyEN”.
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Stop Procrastinating and Get On With It

Had one of those days where you feel like you haven’t got much done?

Dr. Raj Persuad’s top tips for preventing procrastination may help, whilst enabling you to manage stress more effectively:
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3 Very Simple Ways to Make Your Life Easier

We’re continuing discussion of some of the valuable messages from Richard Carlson’s book ‘Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff’. The quite simple strategies discussed in the book can enable you to manage stress more effectively.

The following 3 exercises can make you more resistant to stress and make life easier and more enjoyable.
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The Power of Facilitated Sessions

Facilitated sessions are team-based approaches to communication and involve the design and delivery of interactive workshops to extract high-quality consensus based information in compressed timeframes to meet a predetermined set of deliverables.
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Don’t Sweat The Small Stuff

In the previous Watt Works blog we discussed the impact of stress on health and wellbeing and also began to explore ways of dealing with stress more effectively. In today’s blog we are going to explore this issue a little further.
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