Integration Training Journal - Mark Walsh's Blog

Brighton (Sussex)/ London UK

Where business training, management & leadership training, time & stress management, coaching and team building meet "alternative" content. For all who integrate BOTH worlds as human business beings - to benefit themselves, their work and the world.

Monthly Archives: September 2010

Emotionally Intelligent Communication

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Here's some tips on emotionally intelligent communication, based upon NonViolent Communication (NVC) by Marshall Rosenberg and used on our communication training courses and emotional intelligence training. Separating Observations from  Judgements in Communication Observations are facts that could be recorded by a video camera that no one would argue with. They are specific, impartial ...

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Communication Styles

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Here's a communication types outline from the communication training courses Integration Training runs. Which type you and employees are has big implications for leadership and management. Thanks to Francis Briers for this one. 4 Communication Types The Amiable Also known as: Phlegmatic Feeler People Man Helper Interpersonal   Symbol: Dove The Amiable person: wants to ...

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The Business of Poetry

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Guest blogger and motivational coach and performance poet Louise Taylor on business and poetry: ............. “Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.  Gloria Steinem Twisted River Performance Poetry by Louise Taylor A twisted river flows, it knows the way. Warmly wriggles over bare toes. Speeding flows wash stony ...

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How to Get a Good Night’s Sleep

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This came up in a stress management workshop so as soneone who always enojys a really good night's sleep these days but didn't used to I thought I'd share. Sleep Strategies - How to Get a Good Night's Sleep The amount of sleep a person needs varies, if you need an alarm clock you may not ...

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How to Turn Work Into a Spiritual Practice

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- 7 Tenets of Conscious Business The notion of using work, especially business, as a spiritual practice may seem ridiculous, however I believe it is not only possible but necessary in the modern world. I’ve been employing employment as personal spiritual discipline for the last three years and I’d like to share some ...

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You are Dying and This is Good News

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You are dying. You will one day be worm food. You’re a gonner. You will certainly shuffle off your mortal coil. Maggots will feast on your eyes and beetles will dance in your chest. Trees will suck up your cells and spew them out into the air. You’re gonna snuff it. Life ends, ...

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