Don’t love presenting? Here are 6 tips to get over yourself so that you can learn to love it

Do a presentation or die? If you believe the statistics, most people would apparently prefer the latter! That seems a little dramatic and sounds like a lot of people are getting themselves tied up in knots unnecessarily.

Many lawyers and accountants (and many others too) know this conundrum….. For so many years you are assessed on your technical capabilities and then as you approach the path to Partner, you are expected to be able to uncover opportunities to attract more clients, and therefore revenue, to the business.

Ahh the open plan office…… still a major point of contention for research on efficiency and productivity. They might save on fixed costs but are there other costs associated with potentially less productivity?

Have you heard that saying, “Motivation will get you started, dedication will keep you going”? It’s about being dedicated to your cause, rather than just being motivated to do something at one point in time.

I was recently on a flight and watched a documentary on biohacking and smart drugs. Long story short it followed the journey of a keynote speaker who was a futurist.

Whenever we are coaching people we hear this issue time and time again. “Emails are so time consuming”. And quite frankly, we couldn’t agree more.

At NEP we come across many people who are choosing or required to do more study. And let’s face it – these days continuous learning is one of the pillars of success.

When you hear the words “high performance” or “success”, what picture/vision comes to mind for you? Is it something you aspire to, or something totally unattainable? What does it actually mean to be high performing and successful?

I was delivering a workshop recently focusing on energy and how to structure your days, weeks, months etc. for performance. We were discussing the physical attributes of what makes up our energy and one of the attendees asked if it was all just a little too much to try and focus on everything – nutrition, movement, environment, the people around us etc.

Fundamentally our brains are wired for survival rather than high performance. So we always joke in a kind of serious way, that high performance isn’t that hard given the benchmark is actually kind of low.