Moyra Mackie
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How do you respond to conflict? Learn how to set your Emotional Thermostat
What is an Emotional Thermostat? When faced with an indifferent waiter and disappointing food, how easy do you find it to complain? When someone at work has produced poor quality work, what do you do and say? And more importantly, how do you feel? These feedback...
What is your self-worth? How to really value yourself.
If I asked you the question “What is your self-worth?” what would you take into consideration?Would you think about how much you earn or how much you own? Would you think about what’s in the bank, or how much you owe the bank?Or would you dwell on what other people...
Listening is good for you: Four steps to mastering active listening
Do you understand the difference between listening and active listening?Do you feel listened to?What’s more, are YOU a good listener? Studies show adults remember between 25 and 50 per cent of what they hear. So when you talk to your boss, colleagues, customers or...
Stress: Being a compassionate friend to ourselves
How many of us are kind and compassionate towards ourselves in times of stress? Most have us have known that feeling when we’ve got a lot on our plates; challenging targets, multiple demands (often a combination of work and home) and tight deadlines. Yet sometimes...
Stress: When last were you unplugged?
When last were you really, completely unplugged? A few years ago, I experienced it for the first time in a very long time around a campfire in Zimbabwe, the land of my birth. A campfire in a place that is only accessible by boat or plane. A place where rush hour...
The perils of perfectionism and other life stealers
My name is Moyra Mackie and I’m a recovering perfectionist.Perfectionism is rightly described as a life-stealerEven though I know that perfection is not possible, it is one of my Drivers. I hear the siren call of perfectionism whenever I’m under pressure. This might...
Leadership – how can I be a leader with Emotional Intelligence?
It’s a beautiful spring day in Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe. We’ve just got back from our early morning safari drive. We began in the barely-light crisp cold, swaddled in fleece and thick woollen blankets. We return under clear blue skies, our faces upturned to...
What do leaders fear the most?
Senior executives have never been so well rewarded. In the UK it now takes the average CEO only three days to “earn” what the average employee takes home in a year. On top of this, lottery-sized exit packages and gold-plated pensions give those at the top...
Have you been promoted and left hanging?
Staff are crying out for emotionally intelligent management. In simple terms, we can usually divide our careers into two parts. Before we managed people and after. The first part of our career is usually spent building and honing our skills. We may start off as...
Leaders aren’t late: If you can’t manage your time you certainly can’t lead
Whenever I run a leadership program, I ask participants to list what they consider to be the essential traits of effective leadership. Along with “being trusted”, there are always those old clichés of “having vision”, or worse “charisma”. I never hear "time...
Coaches are not cheerleaders
Disappointment is never a great emotion to experience. A while back I signed up to a webinar by a rather famous author and “life coach”. More about those inverted commas later. For $39 I was promised that I would find out what might be holding me back in my goal...
Why you AND your team need a coach
Organisations consistently report that executive and leadership coaching works. Coaching individuals has been proved to help leaders to: Set more stretch goals and increase the chance of achieving them Ask for feedback about their performance and act on it...
Moyra has worked with our organization to help us navigate a number of important change initiatives… consistently demonstrating an ability to help us see the gap between where we are and where we need to go… truly defining what it means to be a trusted advisor.
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