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Graham Eisner speaks to Darryl Praill on INSIDE Inside Sales

Graham Eisner, author of Just Ask!: 7 simple steps to unlock the power of clients, generate referrals and double your business, is a featured guest on Darryl Praill’s podcast, talking about using the Just Ask method for getting leads through referrals – at no cost!

Don’t Ask, Don’t Sell – Graham Eisner – INSIDE Inside Sales

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Helen Beedham in HR Magazine

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Helen Beedham, author of The Future of Time, is featured in HR Magazine talking about how we can make manage time better at work.

HR Magazine – Why managing time at work is the new frontier

Knowledge-based businesses have been evolving at pace, adjusting to our post-Brexit landscape, pandemic-enforced remote working and new hybrid working arrangements. They have been speedily integrating new technologies and transforming core products and services and how these are delivered.

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Debra Mashek in Psychology Today

‘When working with people who are different from you in any number of ways—ranging from demographic features to ideological differences to disciplinary lenses—it is critical to invest in knowing the other person, decoding your context, and exploring your assumptions’

Debra Mashek, author of Collabor(h)ate (forthcoming), is featured in Psychology Today talking about building strong relationships in diverse groups.

5 Ways to Build Strong Relationships in Diverse Groups

Cross-functional, skip-rank, inter-organizational, intergenerational, and cross-cultural teams offer rich opportunities for collaboration. These strengths can also present vulnerabilities on the relationship-building front. Specific conversations help build strong collaborations across lines of difference. Empower your relationships and collaborations by creating time and space for these conversations to unfold.

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Helen Beedham in Forbes

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‘People are realizing that they’re feeling like they’re working like machines, and we’re not designed to work like that.’

Helen Beedham, author of The Future of Time, is quoted in Forbes talking about what’s underlying The Great Resignation.

Employees Say Unsustainable Workloads And Expectations Are Driving Them To Quit

Unsustainable workloads are one of the top factors contributing to the Great Resignation, along with uncaring managers, inadequate compensation and lack of career advancement potential, according to a new survey by consulting firm McKinsey & Company released Wednesday.

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Grace Marshall on BT’s Skills for Tomorrow

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Grace Marshall, author of Struggle, is one of the experts featured in BT’s Skills for Tomorrow series, talking about how to be more productive.

How to be more productive with Grace Marshall – Work life – Skills for Tomorrow | BT

Grace Marshall head coach and productivity ninja shares her advice on how to be more productive. She helps people adopting new ways of working and thinking about their work to replace stress, overwhelm and frustration with success, sanity and satisfaction.

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Helen Beedham in Business Age

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Helen Beedham, author of The Future of Time, is featured in Business Age talking about how we can make time work better at work.

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When did you last get a good stretch of uninterrupted time at work? A normal working day for most people is filled with calls, meetings, impromptu requests, urgent deadlines, high email volumes and messages pinging in across a variety of channels.

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Frederique Murphy in Forbes on IWD

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Connect. Captivate. Celebrate. Challenge. Coach.

Frederique Murphy, author of Lead Beyond the Edge, shares her advice on how women leaders can support each other in this Forbes article for International Women’s Day.

Six Ways Female Leaders Can Help Their Sisters To Succeed

Female leaders are vital to helping other female leaders flourish at work. Arguably the most important way in which they do this is by acting as role models. Women can also support other women in the workplace by acting as sponsors, mentors and sounding boards.

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Alison Jones is named as TEDxNorthwich speaker

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Alison Jones, author of This Book Means Business and Exploratory Writing (forthcoming) and founder of Practical Inspiration Publishing, has been named as one of the speaker line-up for this year’s TEDxNorthwich event on 23 April 2022.

Speakers

Featuring an inspiring line-up of speakers with a diverse range of talks, to open your mind to new ideas, challenge your thoughts and spark conversation, we invite you to join us. Tickets are limited to just 100 which not only makes it a special and intimate evening but also one you will want to get your tickets quickly for.

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Lucy Werner in Stylist Magazine

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‘I’ve got more confidence to step away from what others are doing and forge my own path.’

Lucy Werner, author of Hype Yourself and co-author of Brand Yourself, is featured in Stylist Magazine talking about her experience of working abroad.

Work with a view: 7 women on what it’s like to work remotely while travelling the world

Skip to content Travel Written by Leah Sinclair background Layer 1 Add this article to your list of favourites Remote working has offered people the flexibility to work from anywhere with a decent wifi connection – and these women are taking full advantage of that by travelling to some of the most beautiful places in the world and working while they’re at it.

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Practical Inspiration authors dazzle at Business Book Awards shortlisting

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On World Book Day, we celebrated by congratulating all the finalists in this year’s Business Book Awards (with commiserations to those who missed out – the competition was fierce and there was much heated discussion!). It was a particular proud day for Practical Inspiration Publishing, with ELEVEN  of our authors shortlisted this year.

Our finalists are, by category:
Start Up/Scale Up: Michael Buckworth, Built on Rock; Rob Kerr, Project Future; David Pattison, The Money Train
Sales & Marketing: Lucy Werner and Hadrien Chatelet, Brand Yourself
Business Self-Development: Janie Van Hool, The Listening Shift
Work & Life: Grace Marshall, Struggle; Jo Richardson, Ignite
Wellness & Wellbeing: Sarah Kuipers, The Thriving Giver
Short Business Book: Ruth Murray-Webster and Eleanor Winton, The Disruption Game Plan
Specialist Business Book: Jo Filshie Browning, Scientifically Speaking
Business Journey: Babs Omotowa, From Storeroom to Boardroom

See the full shortlists for each category here. Winners will be revealed on 16 May, 2022.

We’re keeping EVERYTHING crossed!