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You Need to Lead
4 days ago -
Consultancy -
Frank Newberry
Celebrating 20 years of working with Groundsmen and Greenkeepers in January 2009, Trainer and Conference Speaker Frank Newberry focuses on the need for us all to show leadership at whatever level we are in our organisation. In Part 1 Frank looks at supervisory leadership i.e. 'Taking Charge'
Dealing with Dodgy Interview Questions
10 Apr 2012 -
Consultancy -
Frank Newberry
Following on from his ‘Quick Tips for Job Seekers’ article in the last edition - Trainer and Motivational Speaker, Frank Newberry, offers some advice on how to deal with dodgy interview questions
A Straightforward Approach to Solving Work Problems
25 Feb 2012 -
Consultancy -
Frank Newberry
A while back a trainee consultant I was coaching to be able to help others to solve their work problems was having difficulty with what I thought was a very straightforward approach to solving work problems.
Five Quick Tips for Jobseekers
27 Jan 2012 -
Consultancy -
Frank Newberry
With the overall unemployment rate getting worse - and youth unemployment standing at one in five of young people and rising, Trainer and Motivational Speaker, Frank Newberry, offers a few quick tips for job seekers
How to Manage Other People’s Expectations
1 Dec 2011 -
Consultancy -
Frank Newberry
In his previous article Pitchcare Trainer and Motivational Speaker Frank Newberry explored how our expectations of ourselves can have an impact on our own performance. In this article he checks out what we might do to keep our customers’ expectations in touch with our realities!
Can You be Better, or is this as Good as you are Going to Get?
2 Oct 2011 -
Consultancy -
Frank Newberry
- Issue 38 - Aug / Sept 2011
In his last article Performance Consultant and Motivational Speaker, Frank Newberry, explored how the power of your expectation can influence the performance of others. In this article he considers how our expectations of ourselves can affect our own performance.
What Do you Expect?
15 Aug 2011 -
Consultancy -
Frank Newberry
- Issue 37 - Jun / Jul 2011
Leadership trainer and conference speaker, Frank Newberry, considers how good leaders understand how the ‘power of expectation’ can be used to influence outcomes, particularly the performance of others. Frank also challenges us to raise our expectations of ourselves and of other people
Be more Selfish!
29 May 2011 -
Consultancy -
Frank Newberry
After more than forty years doing voluntary work around the world performance consultant and conference speaker, Frank Newberry, has examined his motives and concluded that he has personally benefitted most from any ‘good works’. Frank also challenges us all to ‘be more selfish’ and do more voluntary work
Top Tips for Interviewers - Part II
27 Mar 2011 -
Consultancy -
Frank Newberry
In Part II, Frank Newberry looks at how to interview for evidence and how to probe for the truth in those reassuring but dodgy candidate responses.
Top tips for interviewers - Part 1: Suitability Screening
17 Feb 2011 -
Consultancy -
Frank Newberry
In Part 1, Interviewer, Trainer and Conference Speaker, Frank Newberry, offers some tips on how to test suitability before holding an interview so that you can separate the ‘well qualified wannabes’ from the better suited ‘sure things’ you are after.
Can you Change the Future? Part II - Painless Presentations
1 Dec 2010 -
Consultancy -
Frank Newberry
In Part 1, Top Pitchcare Trainer and Conference Speaker, Frank Newberry, explored how we can change the future one person at a time by coaching and mentoring individuals. In Part 2, Frank looks at how we can leave a positive legacy by giving painless presentations at work, e.g. at meetings of all types and even conferences
Why Won't you be Open with Me?
16 May 2010 -
Consultancy -
Frank Newberry
Performance Consultant and Conference Speaker, Frank Newberry, makes the case for more openness in the workplace. In Part 2 he will look at the sophisticated methods people use to avoid being open with others and how we can tackle this problem in ourselves and in others.
Handling Conflict - Part 3: Responding well to Conflicts we cannot Avoid
14 Apr 2010 -
Consultancy -
Frank Newberry
Performance Consultant and Conference Speaker Frank Newberry considers ways in which we can prepare for and respond effectively to a conflict at work that we may not be able to avoid.
Handling Conflict II
17 Feb 2010 -
Consultancy -
Frank Newberry
In Part 1 of this series Performance Consultant and Conference Speaker, Frank Newberry, explored how the uncomfortable experience of conflict in the workplace can bring positive outcomes.
Handling conflict
4 Dec 2009 -
Consultancy -
Frank Newberry
In these difficult times of increased workloads and higher anxiety levels, conflict in the workplace can so easily arise.
Keeping your Job
7 Nov 2009 -
Consultancy -
Frank Newberry
It has never been easier to lose your job and, surely, there is nothing you can do to dodge the redundancy bullet if it has your name on it?
How to communicate difficult decisions
30 Sep 2009 -
Training & Education -
Frank Newberry
As discussed in part one, difficult decisions can be very hard to make, and communicating them can sometimes be harder still. In this the second of two articles Trainer and Conference Speaker, Frank Newberry, considers how we can respond positively to the challenge of communicating difficult decisions.
Don’t ask me to do that - I can’t change now!
16 Dec 2008 -
Consultancy -
Frank Newberry
In a recent article for Pitchcare I referred to some team members as 'old fogies'. I described these people as being those who have been doing a reasonable job on a limited range of tasks over a period of years.
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Floppy Feedback and Avoiding Appraisal Agony
28 Jul 2008 -
Consultancy -
Frank Newberry
Just back from his third visit to Denmark where he garnered great reviews for his negotiating skills seminar for greenkeepers called 'Getting Better Deals at Work', Trainer and Conference Speaker FRANK NEWBERRY considers floppy feedback at work and how 'a little project' can make all the difference to appraisals.
What you see is what you get!
28 Apr 2008 -
Consultancy -
Frank Newberry
Careers Counsellor and conference speaker Frank Newberry returns, with some real life examples, to probe the theme of personal image and its impact in the workplace (both positive and negative)