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Why Soft Skills Development is Essential in Business

Many companies today engage in personal and employee development. This helps give them a competitive edge in the business world and it ensures that their employees handle themselves in a professional manner at all times. It is important that employees show that they are empathetic to the needs of their peers and customers, are self-aware, [...]

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Passionate Leadership

Leading with passion and for passion is essential. Being able to share your own passion for something is one thing, but being able to lead others so that they are able to consistently experience passion in what they do, is something else entirely.
Passion, in a work context, is one of those misunderstood phenomena. As a [...]

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Developing Potential in Tough Times

Article written by Clive Lewis, Illumine’s Director of Training.
Nearly every organisation states that ‘our people are our most important resource’ but many fail to release the full potential of their people, particularly in tough times. Why?
The last couple of years have been tough. Very tough. And for many organisations the tough times aren’t over yet. [...]

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Ten Top Tips to Help Your People Find Their Inner ‘Passion’

If you, as a manager, coach or a trainer, want to help people to find their passion what should you do? Here are our top ten tips to help you start thinking.

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Innovation – The Ultimate Leadership Challenge?

In this provocative article, Clive Lewis discusses the challenge facing leaders everywhere as they grapple with how to do more with less and be seen to be adding value to the organisations they lead.

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Developing the leaders of the future…

Team leaders… Managers… Board members…The people you have right now may be your leaders of the future… but do you have the right development opportunities in place to nurture these high potential people?
People are the backbone of your organisation. If you are a company that wants to achieve success you need to take notice of [...]

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