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Bernard Desmidt Bernard Desmidt

The art of conversation

If management is about results, leadership is about relationships. Results and relationships are the two hands that wash each other.

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The (unspoken) secrets of success

Over the years I’ve coached executives, I’ve come to recognise that CEO’s and executives who are assessed to be ‘consistently effective’, share something in common – they embrace the unspoken secrets of success.

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Criticism is a veiled wish

It’s natural when others criticise you to react defensively, especially if you assume they intend to undermine or disrespect your sense of worth and value.

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Nurturing the garden of talent

Below’s a picture of my garden taken in 2017 which recently popped up in my Google feed. Next to it is my garden today, 7 years later.

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Are you wasting time in meetings?

Are your days filled with back-to-back meetings that waste time because decisions aren’t made and nor do they bring the team closer together?

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Impact

Leaders that IMPACT bring about new possibilities. Through the relevance of their intentions, the intimacy of their relationships, they achieve results that positively affect others.

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Intimacy

Let’s turn our attention to the second ‘instrument’, INTIMACY and start with the word’s origins. It’s derived from the Latin word, “intimus” which means ‘inner or inmost’.

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