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Eloise Skinner in The Sunday Times

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Eloise Skinner, author of The Purpose Handbook, is featured in The Sunday Times talking about entrepreneurship, monasticism and changing careers.

I was a corporate lawyer by day, training as a monk by night

You are meant to turn your phone off when attending a silent retreat at the Archbishop of Canterbury’s residence, Lambeth Palace, as part of training in monastic life. But you are never meant to turn your phone off as a corporate tax lawyer at an American legal giant – a client could need you at any time.

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Lucy Harrison in The Chemical Engineer

‘The ability to collaborate, engage, influence, think strategically, empower and communicate is crucial to every leaders’ success.’

Lucy Harrison, author of Soft Skills for Tough Jobs, is featured in The Chemical Engineer speaking about the seven most important human, leadership or soft skills to increase your chances of doing well in leadership positions.

Seven Soft Skills to Help with Tough Engineering Jobs

How to increase your chances of doing well in leadership positions HAVE you ever come across a problem you couldn’t solve? Most engineers I know love to solve problems. There is a great satisfaction in coming up with the perfect solution, process or result, no matter how tough the environment.

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Deb Mashek, PhD in MIT Sloan Management Review

‘What is surprising… is how little professional development people reported receiving on how to build healthy and productive collaborative relationships at work.’ 

Deb Mashek, PhD, author of Collabor(h)ate (forthcoming) is featured in MIT Sloan Management Review speaking about collaboration and how most organisations fall short when it comes to helping workers build their relationship skills.

Collaboration Is a Key Skill. So Why Aren’t We Teaching It?

New research finds that despite the importance of collaboration, most organizations fall short when it comes to helping workers build their relationship skills. Americans spend more time on work than on all other waking activities combined . Many of these working hours are spent collaborating with colleagues. We think together in meetings.

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Felicity Cowie on the The Unnoticed Entrepreneur Show

Felicity Cowie, author of Exposure, speaks with Jim James on the The Unnoticed Entrepreneur Show about understanding media relations better and how it can help you get Exposure.

Understanding media relations better, and how it can help you get Exposure and #getnoticed, with Felicity Cowie | UnNoticed Entrepreneur – public relations for business owners.

Hello, and welcome to this episode of The UnNoticed Entrepreneur. Today, we’re going to talk about Media Relations with a former Panorama and BBC journalist, Felicity Cowie, who’s got a new book called “Exposure.” Felicity, welcome to the show. Felicity Cowie: Hi, Jim. Thanks very much for having me on the show.

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Book review: Soft Skills for Tough Jobs

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‘… it’s well worth anyone reading this book to improve quality and effectiveness of their work and non-work-related conversations’

Lucy Harrison‘s Soft Skills for Tough Jobs is a featured book review in theHRDIRECTOR

Soft Skills for Tough Jobs: Building teams that work, one conversation at a time – theHRDIRECTOR

This is a great book. It’s clear, engagingly written and especially enjoyable but it’s also full of practical tips and frameworks for building teams that work. The authors, in their own words, says is about ‘Building teams that work, one conversation at a time’

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Book review: Leading Through Uncertainty

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‘Jennison’s style is gentle, compassionate but assertive and her book is a brilliant mix of story-telling, anecdote and critical perspectives’

Jude Jennison‘s Leading Through Uncertainty  is a featured book review in theHRDIRECTOR

Leading through Uncertainty – Making disruptive change work for humans – theHRDIRECTOR

In our post-pandemic world, we’re continuing to face unprecedented uncertainty and disruption. The challenge for leaders continues – in the face of even more unrelenting change, their teams are looking to them to keep providing certainty amid the chaos. Having the skills to lead through change without suffering burnout, seeing staff turnover increase or levels of engagement plummet is a must-have.

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Lucy Harrison in Solicitors Journal

‘I don’t believe anyone comes to work to upset people, make things worse, to not care or do a bad job’

Lucy Harrison, author of Soft Skills for Tough Jobs, is featured in Solicitors Journal talking about the importance of interpersonal skills in a business.

Solicitors Journal – Improving your social skills at work

Lucy Harrison outlines the importance of interpersonal skills in a business Have you ever had a boss that didn’t notice what you did, no matter how hard you worked? Or one that seemed to ignore the signs things weren’t going well and carry on regardless? How did that impact on you and your work?

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Felicity Cowie in Business Leader

‘Founders who forsake media coverage as a ‘vanity project’ are missing early opportunities to scale’

Felicity Cowie, author of Exposure, speaks with Serena Haththotuwa in Business Leader about media relations and working with journalists.

“When you do ‘media relations’ your audience is not the public but journalists.” – Business Leader News

We sat down with Felicity Cowie, an award-winning former BBC News and Panorama journalist turned media relations troubleshooter. She has recently released a book: ‘Exposure: Insider Secrets to Make Your Business a Go-To Authority for Journalists’, which was called ‘a must-read for founders, a truly game-changing guide’ by venture capital investor Eileen Burbidge MBE.

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Felicity Cowie in Business Plus

‘Just one strong piece of media coverage will win you exposure to thousands if not millions of readers or viewers and is ‘evergreen’’

Felicity Cowie, author of Exposure, shares eight key benefits of media coverage in Business Plus.

How insider secrets can give your business buzz for journalists – Business Plus

In the foreword to Exposure: Insider Secrets to Make Your Business a Go-To Authority for Journalists by Felicity Cowie , venture capital investor in tech companies, Eileen Burbidge, writes: “Founders are always inundated when starting or scaling their companies and seeking out media coverage may seem a vanity project whilst forsaking investing time in the early team or product.

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Eloise Skinner in Forbes

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‘What is extraordinary is that Skinner embarked on a path to define her own sense of purpose better, only to discover that her purpose in life is to help other people discover and enact their sense of purpose.’

Eloise Skinner, author of The Purpose Handbook, talks to Dan Pontefract in Forbes about how she shifted from law to purpose-driven ventures.

How This Millennial Shifted From Law To Purpose-Driven Ventures

The world is full of lost people. They are the workers in roles where they just don’t fit. Maybe it was timing. Perhaps it was circumstantial. Laziness might even have crept in. Whatever the case, millions of people are going through the motions, unhappy in their careers and their place of work.