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A to Z Overcoming Failure, Oak Consult, Mark Conway — Reading Time: 6 minutesIn this A to Z of Overcoming Failure, we’ll look at 26 inspirational quotes from some of the biggest ‘failures’ on how to overcome failure and set-backs. Failure in anything is tough. Life throws failure at us from an early age – learning to walk, potty training, making friends, reading [...]

A to Z of Overcoming Failure

August 28, 2015 in People / Personal Development tagged Failure / Mistakes by markconwayuk

Follow the Leader, Oak Consult — Reading Time: 9 minutesWhen I was a child we used to play a game whereby someone was picked to be the leader and they had to run around and the others had to mimic their actions, movements and follow their path, the more complex, the better. Those that didn’t follow, deviated from the ‘route’ [...]

Follow the Leader

February 9, 2015 in Business / Leadership / People / Personal Development tagged Leader / leadership qualities / Leadership Style by markconwayuk

The Dark Side of Leadership - 10 Leadership traits that will destroy your organisation — Reading Time: 12 minutes10 Leadership traits that will destroy your organisation Having spent 20 years of my life in the corporate world and 10 of them in leadership roles, I’ve been privileged to have worked with some fantastic leaders from across 3 continents. I’ve written many posts on positive leadership for Think Oak! [...]

The Dark Side of Leadership

November 7, 2014 in Business Skills / Leadership / People / Personal Development tagged Communication / Organisational Change / People Management / Performance Management by markconwayuk

Teams, Success, Customers, Oak Consult, Knowledge, Energy, Focus — Reading Time: 9 minutesBeing part of a winning team is a great feeling! Building a winning team is hard work, but can be great fun with some amazing results! Below I’ve detailed Think Oak’s A-Z of Building a Winning Team: A – Audit Abilities The very first thing to do when you take [...]

A to Z of Building a Winning Team

September 8, 2014 in Business Skills / Leadership / Management / Personal Development / Teams tagged Can Do / Energy / Focus / KPI / SMART / Teamwork / Vision by markconwayuk

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Getting the most from Twitter

February 24, 2014 in Business Skills / Personal Development / Social Media tagged B2B / Follower / Hashtag / marketing / social-media / Twitter by markconwayuk

Meaning of Life, Oak Consult, Mark Conway, Think Oak — Reading Time: 23 minutesBoth Monty Python in their film with the same title and Douglas Adams’ incredible book (and subsequent TV series and Film) – The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, pondered with great humour, The Meaning of Life. I highly recommend both if you haven’t seen them! The latter piece of [...]

The Meaning of Life

January 2, 2014 in People / Personal Development tagged Goals / Nelson Mandela / Richard Branson / Steve Jobs / Values / Viktor Frankl by markconwayuk

Rocket Fuel for the Soul — Reading Time: 10 minutes What does ‘Rocket Fuel For The Soul’ mean to you? Getting a rocket to take off, break the earth’s atmosphere and beyond our solar system to the stars takes a huge amount of planning, energy, determination and investment. So it is for us as individuals if we want to [...]

Rocket Fuel For The Soul – Take Aim and Shoot ...

July 18, 2013 in People / Personal Development tagged Attitude / Exercise / Goals / Meditation / Relationships / Self-help / Self-Limiting Beliefs by markconwayuk

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Reading Time: 19 minutesThe world of work has evolved and changed significantly in the last 20 years. No longer is a job for life and you need to be in the driving seat when it comes to career progression. When did you last make time to reassess what you want from your career? [...]

A to Z of Career Progression

May 9, 2013 in Business Skills / Employability / People / Personal Development tagged Albert Einstein / Ambition / Brand / Career / Donald Trump / Jim Rohn by markconwayuk

man and woman near table — Reading Time: 13 minutesSelling is at the heart of business, even if you’re not in ‘Direct Sales’. Think about the following scenarios: You’re trying to convince your manager to develop a new product, but can’t get him or her to take things further You’d like to introduce [...]

A to Z of Direct Sales

March 5, 2013 in Business Skills / Personal Development tagged Customer / Forecasting / Pipeline / Relationships / Sales / Selling / Teamwork by markconwayuk

Oak Consult, A to Z of Employability — Reading Time: 9 minutesI often get asked by teachers, lecturers and students what are the key skills and qualities that businesses are looking for in young people leaving full-time education for a career in business. In this A – Z I’d like to give some pointers on the very important topic of Employability. [...]

A to Z of Employability

February 28, 2013 in Business Skills / Employability / Personal Development tagged Attitude / Behaviour / Digital Literacy / Numeracy / Teamwork by markconwayuk

Reading Time: 14 minutesA – Alerts You can sign up for Google Alerts quickly and easily. Using those keywords and phrases from your preliminary research online, you can elect to have any instance of those keywords and phrases as Google finds them sent straight to your inbox. Enter the topic you wish to [...]

A to Z of Business Social Media

February 11, 2013 in Business Skills / Employability / Personal Development tagged Blogging / blogging tools / Facebook / Google / internet / LinkedIn / PS4 / social-media / Xbox 720 by markconwayuk

Managing Poor Performance — Reading Time: 5 minutesIn part 1 of this two-part post I covered the potential impacts of poor performance, the causes and your responsibilities as a manager. In part 2, I’ll be guiding you through a seven-step process to help you deal with a poor performer. Tackling Poor Performance Many businesses do have policies and [...]

Stop the Rot – Managing Poor Performance ~ Part 2

January 2, 2013 in Business Skills / Leadership / Management / People / Personal Development / Teams tagged Feedback / Performance / Performance Management / SMART Goals by markconwayuk

Reading Time: 3 minutesFollowing on from my recent posts on Self-Limiting Beliefs (Part1, Part2), I’ve paid much more attention to the language people use around me to watch for self-limiting beliefs or self-restricting words that serve to embed these hindering thoughts as ‘facts’ in our subconscious – Personal barriers to success! How often [...]

Why Not or Why Not? – Removing Personal Barriers to ...

November 7, 2012 in Personal Development tagged Barriers to Success / Self-belief / Self-Limiting Beliefs / Success by markconwayuk

Whether you think you can, or think you can't, you're right! — Reading Time: 6 minutesIn part 1, we established what Self-limiting Beliefs are, what causes them and how to identify your own, because we all have them. In this post, I will be focusing on the most common self-limiting beliefs and how to start tackling them in your life. It is extremely easy to let [...]

Self-limiting Beliefs ~ Part 2

October 29, 2012 in People / Personal Development tagged Belief / Failure / Love / Self Esteem / Self-Limiting Beliefs / Subconcious / Success by markconwayuk

self-limiting beliefs — Reading Time: 5 minutesIf you are one of those people who constantly has negative thoughts or feelings running around inside you, or you find yourself regularly repeating bad habits or destructive patterns, most likely you have a hidden self-limiting belief lurking in your mind, holding you back from reaching your full potential, preventing [...]

Self-limiting Beliefs – Part 1

October 22, 2012 in People / Personal Development tagged Childhood / Self-belief / Self-Limiting Beliefs by markconwayuk