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		<title>Look in the mirror</title>
		<link>http://www.acintegration.com/2011/10/look-in-the-mirror/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 08:36:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>anna</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Step up to Leadership]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Taken from a talk I gave at the ICAEW Annual Practice Conference 2011 Being able to work through others is a fundamental skill for a leader. As a leader, your focus includes: Working with peers to set and communicate direction and identify new opportunities Inspiring your teams to align with the direction and achieve great [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Putting yourself in other people&#8217;s shoes</title>
		<link>http://www.acintegration.com/2011/03/putting-yourself-in-other-peoples-shoes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 11:09:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>anna</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Build better relationships]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A way of moving forward with a difficult relationship or communication is to spend five minutes trying to understand  the other person&#8217;s perspective and connect with what they are feeling. This may help you gain new insights and perhaps enable you to develop new strategies for moving forward. For example you might realise that the other person may be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A reminder on increasing engagement and motivation</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 07:20:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>anna</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Build better relationships]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have found that one of the most powerful tools for increasing the engagement and motivation of others, whether a member of my team, a colleague, my boss or my family is &#8216;truly listening&#8217;. Truly listening means suspending my own agenda for a moment and concentrating on the other person. By that I mean, facing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can Partners work together to create additional opportunities?</title>
		<link>http://www.acintegration.com/2010/11/can-partners-work-together-to-create-additional-opportunities/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 20:33:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>anna</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Working effectively across the organisation]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.acintegration.com/?p=1872</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A hypothesis: Building on existing behaviours and preferences rather than trying to change them, will result in more cross functional opportunities.   Encouraging Partners from different functional areas (e.g. audit and tax) to work together in a way that creates new opportunities for the organisation as a whole is something firms can find challenging. This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Facing Fear</title>
		<link>http://www.acintegration.com/2010/11/facing-fear/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2010 11:20:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>anna</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Increase your resilience]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.acintegration.com/?p=1860</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[These are two of my favourite quotes. “He couldn’t stand being afraid. When he found something that scared him, he’d just do it ‘til the fear went away.” The Bodyguard 1992 ‘As they neared the gates, he saw a large guard dog with huge teeth and red eyes. It was growling ferociously and struggling to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trust Formula for Professionals</title>
		<link>http://www.acintegration.com/2010/10/trust-formula-for-professionals/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2010 11:02:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>anna</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Build better relationships]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.acintegration.com/?p=1849</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the most important features of building engagement is to cultivate relationships based on trust. Two things you can implement immediately to increase levels of trust: Increase frequency of interactions  -  so if you see a person or a team once a month, increase it to once every three weeks. Show interest in and understanding of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can you significantly increase the cost effectiveness of leadership development?</title>
		<link>http://www.acintegration.com/2010/09/can-you-significantly-increase-the-cost-effectiveness-of-leadership-development/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2010 14:11:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>anna</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cost effectiveness]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.acintegration.com/?p=1833</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I think you can Times are hard. Motivating and developing your next generation leaders in a cost effective way is essential. Measuring the cost effectiveness of leadership development is not easy and a great deal of effort has been put into developing ways of doing this from participant feedback to manager feedback to ROIs. It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What stops you delegating?</title>
		<link>http://www.acintegration.com/2010/09/what-stops-you-delegating/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:35:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>anna</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Step up to Leadership]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Is it the fear of losing control or is it the fear of not knowing exactly what you will do once you have delegated or is it a bit of both? The important first step is to understand that leaders cannot do everything themselves. Accepting this may be tough especially if you do not fully [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Every day ask one person how they are feeling and acknowledge their response.</title>
		<link>http://www.acintegration.com/2010/08/every-day-ask-one-person-how-they-are-feeling-and-acknowledge-their-response/</link>
		<comments>http://www.acintegration.com/2010/08/every-day-ask-one-person-how-they-are-feeling-and-acknowledge-their-response/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 16:52:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ACI</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Build better relationships]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Conversations are avoided or handled in a clumsy way from a feeling of fear. Fear of the response. We fear not being able to control anger, sadness, over exuberance in ourselves and others. Inspiring leadership requires connecting with others at an emotional level. Be courageous &#8211; practise handling emotion.]]></description>
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		<title>Start saying ‘we’ when talking about the leadership of your organisation.</title>
		<link>http://www.acintegration.com/2010/07/start-saying-%e2%80%98we%e2%80%99-when-talking-about-the-leadership-of-your-organisation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 16:51:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ACI</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Step up to Leadership]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.acintegration.com/?p=1799</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When you talk about the leadership of your organisation do you say ‘we’ or ‘they’? If you say ‘they’ you do not see yourself as a leader nor do you see that you have an overall responsibility for taking the organisation forward. This self perception communicates upwards, downwards and outwards. The number one barrier to [...]]]></description>
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