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	<description>The Art of Influence – The Power of Positive Persuasion</description>
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		<title>Building a team by arguing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It seems that an inability to handle conflict holds work groups back from developing into high performing teams. Avoid the conflict and we all stay friends&#8230; and we don’t say what we mean or present opposing views.
Our intention of pushing back is to provide the best ideas not put down the person we disagree with. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://paddyspruce.org/building-a-team-by-arguing/</link>
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		<title>Forgive and forget?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I think it was JFK who said that he was willing to forgive but never forgot a face. Forgiving is generous and helpful to all parties.  Forgetting means that you don’t learn from the occasion.
If you feel wronged or hurt or disappointed by someone’s actions in the past, you carry this with you and it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://paddyspruce.org/forgive-and-forget/</link>
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		<title>A Team Christmas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you are part of a team and rely on others at work, this is the time of the year to show your appreciation. We are all part of teams. We can do little without teams. In a work situation, we rely on others outside our own teams. My suggestion is that you do something [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://paddyspruce.org/a-team-christmas/</link>
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		<title>Does your attitude hold you back?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Richard Branson is quoted as saying “I hire for attitude, train for skills”.
Have you ever been upset by the attitude of someone serving you? They do everything expertly but their attitude negates their good work. If you speak to them, they deny. It seems that attitude can operate unconsciously which means you may not be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://paddyspruce.org/does-your-attitude-hold-you-back/</link>
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		<title>Unreliably happy?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you noticed how unreliable your memory is when it comes to remembering how happy you were or how happy you might be in the future. Do you think that something will make you happy but find afterward that it wasn’t as rewarding as you predicted? Another car, a larger TV, a new relationship.
Firstly, we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://paddyspruce.org/unreliably-happy/</link>
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		<title>A Time for Weing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now is a great time for weing. We before Me.
People are fearful and shrinking at the moment. Organisations are maintaining rather than growing. Some are shedding staff, cutting costs postponing development opportunities for their staff.
The result of this is that more needs to be done with less. Fewer people, same number of customers and rising [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://paddyspruce.org/a-time-for-weing/</link>
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		<title>Listening?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are all required to listen to survive and listen to thrive. We stay alive because we listen for danger. Our careers and businesses thrive because we listen to our client&#8217;s requests and needs. Listening is not a skill that we have been taught. It was assumed that we would develop this immensely important skill [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://paddyspruce.org/listening/</link>
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		<title>How to make the most of bad times.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you believe that this present financial situation is permanent, your best options are to cut back or complain. Cutting back on everything will help you deal with the tightening of the economy. Complaining will get you some sympathy.
If you believe that the present financial situation is temporary, your best option is to prepare for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://paddyspruce.org/how-to-make-the-most-of-bad-times/</link>
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		<title>Give yourself the present this Christmas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What is a wonderful gift that your friends would appreciate and would also help you to enjoy yourself and get rid of the financial crisis blues?
This miraculous gift is&#8230; the present.
Give yourself the present this Christmas.
If you live in the past or the future, try visiting the present. The financial crisis evaporates because nothing is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://paddyspruce.org/give-yourself-the-present-this-christmas/</link>
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		<title>Are you silent… still?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is very difficult to listen to another when your own thinking is non stop. If you could be silent, then still, you would be able to make room for someone else’s ideas.
You would be able to listen with an open mind and would probably hear more than if you were judging the information or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://paddyspruce.org/are-you-silent%e2%80%a6-still/</link>
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