From Pretty Words to Powerful Purpose: Embedding Values in Your Business
Photo by Walls.io on Unsplash We've all seen them – the mission statements gathering dust on a wall, the values hidden away on a website...
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helenjbutler
Mar 21, 20222 min read
What is NLP?
Photo by MK Hamilton on Unsplash I used to be really suspicious of NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming). I did a half day’s course - years...
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helenjbutler
Jul 2, 20213 min read
Make Meetings Work
Meetings have never been so unpopular. Who hasn’t sat in an uncomfortable chair watching a tedious Powerpoint as you think of all the...
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helenjbutler
Jun 25, 20212 min read
How would you spend $1 trillion?
It might seem a crazy question – it’s an amount way higher than any of us can ever get our hands on, after all - but your answer will...
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helenjbutler
May 13, 20213 min read
5 universal truths I've learned from training my dog
My miniature schnauzer Orwell has been teaching me a thing or two about life, and about myself, lately. I've been having some issues with...
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helenjbutler
Apr 16, 20212 min read
Hair Today (a mission masterclass)
This is an exciting day for me. Not only am I having my hair ‘done’ this afternoon for the first time in over six months, but I also...
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helenjbutler
Mar 26, 20212 min read
Transform your CV (and actually enjoy doing it)
Photo by "My Life Through A Lens" on Unsplash My clients often talk about their CV with a kind of dread. They know they should really...
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helenjbutler
Mar 19, 20212 min read
Are you more Preacher, Prosecutor or Politician?
Photo by Darren Halstead on Unsplash Spoiler alert: you don’t actually want to be any of these, but it’s likely that you slip into one or...
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helenjbutler
Feb 26, 20212 min read
What's the worst that can happen?
Photo by Eduardo Goody on Unsplash This is my favourite question of all time. I ask it of myself and my clients every day (it’s even...
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helenjbutler
Jan 6, 20213 min read
The 'fresh start effect' and what that means in 2021
Photo by Danielle MacInnes on Unsplash I thought, back in those heady days of December, that my first blog post in 2021 would be a...
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helenjbutler
Dec 11, 20202 min read
So you want to build a profile? The 4 cornerstones of personal branding
Photo by Austin Chan on Unsplash What is personal branding? Well it’s not all about a logo, colour palette or typeface (although those...
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helenjbutler
Nov 27, 20204 min read
‘The Universe doesn’t give a f**k about you’
A review of Derren Brown: How to be happier - in conversation with the How to Academy (25th November, 2020) Photo by Artem Beliaikin on...
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helenjbutler
Nov 13, 20205 min read
20 of the best remote team building ideas
This week I’ve been planning a virtual team building session and so I thought I’d share some of the best (and simplest) ideas I found...
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helenjbutler
Oct 23, 20202 min read
Freelancers and consultants: make your marketing work 100,000 times harder*
As a consultant or freelancer you have limited time and don’t want to spend large amounts of it creating content that isn’t effective....
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helenjbutler
Sep 30, 20203 min read
How to find your 'Why?'
Eleventy billion people have now watched Simon Sinek’s TED talk ‘Start with why – how great leaders inspire action.’ And many will have...
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helenjbutler
Mar 16, 20203 min read
Coronavirus: business planning bootcamp
Even two weeks ago we would have thought the headlines that we’re seeing every day now were far-fetched and highly improbable. I’ve had...
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helenjbutler
Feb 3, 20203 min read
Are personality tests just astrology for the office?
There are no limiting factors here - all personality types are capable of doing a brilliant job of virtually any task, but will approach
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helenjbutler
Mar 28, 20194 min read
Mid career crisis, anyone?
You’ve spent the last 15 odd years building a career that you actually feel proud of. On the whole, you like your job, and the people you...
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helenjbutler
Jun 8, 20182 min read
You can't achieve everything you want / or You win some, you lose some.
Admitting and embracing failure is a very on-trend topic at the moment, and rightly so, but our predominant culture is slow to catch up....
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helenjbutler
May 21, 20183 min read
Well, this is awkward...
Photo by Roi Dimor on Unsplash When I started my coaching training, the hardest thing I found initially was to learn to just shut up. I’d...
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