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Meetings on the go
You need to ask a colleague at work to help you with something. How would you do it? Learn more about persuasion from this lesson based on business scenarios.
The answer to the loneliness epidemic
Why are so many people lonely these days? Is there a remedy for the loneliness epidemic? How can we become suppercommunicators? Lesson based on podcasts with Charles Duhigg.
He lied to me – how to talk about being angry
Learn how to talk about being angry, for example when you have been lied to.
Make time for thinking
The Glucose Goddess Method
Have you heard about glucose spikes? Do you know how different types of food affect your health and energy levels? Learn this from this insightful lesson by Jessie Inchauspé.
Pan Tadeusz – a true life-long learner
You can meet some amazing people when you stay in hospital. That’s a story of meeting Mr Tadeusz during my minor surgery in February 2024.
What You Need to Have a Strong Executive Presence
Learn what you need to increase your chances of becoming a leader in your organisation. Follow the advice from the HBR article: “The New Rules of Executive Presence,” by Sylvia Ann Hewlett
Silence your inner critic during an interview
Do you know who is your worst enemy during a job interview? Susan Peppercorn believes that it is your inner critic. Learn how to silence it in this lesson based on HBR Management Tip
Travelling collocations with Lucy
Goal worth striving for
Use Strategic Thinking to Create the Life You Want
Ever thought if you could apply business strategy principles to your own life? That’s exactly what this lesson is based on. It’s video by Michael Bungay Stanier from Harvard Business Review
Build new habits
5 tips for the new year
Write an Effective Self-Assessment
How do you feel about yearly assessment meetings with your boss? It’s not easy to feel totally relaxed, is it? One thing that can help you here is writing an effective self-assessment yourself, before you meet your boss. This lesson will help you with just that. It is based on Harvard Business Review article.
Hot 21 – make or do
HOT 21 – new series of tests with 21 items for you to solve. We open the series with a test on collocations with “make” and “do”.
Test your question tags – part 2
How good are you at using question tags?
Life changing stories – Michele – part 3
Moods are weather
Learn to talk about moods. What do you say, for example, when you are a bit confused and not know which way to go?
You must change
Mars 500 mission
Why the pencil is perfect
Hidden Potential by Adam Grant
Death by comfort by Paul Taylor
6 traits of true masculinity
To Engage Your Team, Focus on Their Happiness
A simple formula for making a great pitch
If there was a simple formula to a great speech, would you like to know what it is? Find out how to build an awesome presentation using the tops from an HBR article.