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		<title>Creating the Success Habit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Once you have read this, you may also be interested in my e-book, &#8220;Four Steps To Fantastic&#8221;, which takes this theme much further and also provides a great personal planning guide.  You can download &#8220;Four Steps to Fantastic&#8221; by registering here.  You will also then receive my regular Newsletter with more tips and hints for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ralph&#8217;s Tips for Success &#8211; #4:  Clear the Decks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago, I was invited to visit a friend at his new offices in Istanbul.  As I have no car, and no desire to drive in the local traffic, he offered to pick me up from my apartment so that we could travel together.  Upon arrival at his office, he invited me in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ralph&#8217;s Tips for Success &#8211; #3: Become Interdependant and Interactive</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a child, I was constantly told to learn to be more independent; to rely on myself; not to depend on others.  I can understand that philosophy coming from a parent seeking to prepare offspring for the &#8220;big bad world&#8221; as my father called it. Then came a time when we were told, &#8220;be proactive, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ralphwatson.com/?p=673</link>
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		<title>Ralph&#8217;s Tips for Success &#8211; #2: Managing Meetings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the biggest killers of time and efficiency in organisations is the amount of time being wasted on ineffective meetings.  Almost every one of my executive coaching clients cites this as one of their top five problems. You&#8217;ll probably find lots of theories on how to manage meetings if you surf long enough &#8211; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ralphwatson.com/?p=668</link>
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		<title>Leading on the Edge of Chaos: A Leadership Lesson for Tumultuous Times</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I make no claim to this article as my own.  That accolade goes to Scott Campbell.  However, when I discovered it, I was struck by the concept of using endless optimism as a Leadership tool when, so much of the time, that same optimism and constant positive attitude tend to be condemned. So, I&#8217;ll leave [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ralph&#8217;s Tips for Success &#8211; #1: Educating Up and Educating Down</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to the first in a new series of short &#8220;Tips for Success&#8221; When given  a task to complete in the workplace, most people look at the task from the perspective of &#8220;this is the brief I&#8217;ve been given so I had better get on with it.&#8221;  How would it be, though, if we adopted [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ralphwatson.com/?p=652</link>
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		<title>How to end an argument</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the things I get to experience almost every day, in my Coaching work, is conflict and its consequences; conflict in the workplace, conflict in the home, conflict in relationships.  And one of the ways that conflict often manifests itself is in &#8220;arguments&#8221;.  Have you ever noticed how an argument can escalate from a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ralphwatson.com/?p=646</link>
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		<title>The Myth of &#8220;No-Frills&#8221; NLP</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No-frills NLP is a Myth For ten years I&#8217;ve listened to NLP Trainers talk about &#8220;No-frills NLP training&#8221;.  I&#8217;ve seen training offered in cold, draughty low-budget hotels, village halls and Trainer&#8217;s houses with insufficient space and inappropriate interruptions.  I&#8217;ve witnessed low-quality photocopied notes stapled together at the corners, lack of any audio-visual support and days [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ralphwatson.com/?p=637</link>
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		<title>Doing Business with NLP &#8211; Part Four:  Human Resources Management</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to Part Four in the series, &#8220;Doing Business with NLP.&#8221; This week I&#8217;m proposing to explore the ways in which NLP can benefit HR professionals.  When you have read this article, if you wish, you may download it in pdf format and you will also find the other articles in the series, if you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ralphwatson.com/?p=579</link>
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		<title>Doing Business with NLP &#8211; Part Three:  Negotiating</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Continuing the series on Doing Business with NLP we come to the subject of negotiating.  A big THANK YOU for the many e-mails I&#8217;ve received regarding the first two parts of our series.  If you haven&#8217;t yet had the chance to read them, you can do so here: NLP and Sales NLP and Leadership Both [...]]]></description>
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