Small Changes can have a Big Impact

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Time and energy management

Time and energy management

10 ways to manage your energy and boost your productivity and wellbeing Better productivity isn’t just about time management, it’s about optimising your energy and ...
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Blog The power of the pause

How to Embrace and Enhance the Power of the Pause

6 steps to de-stress and feel more confident again by September What can you do this summer so you can return to school in September ...
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Blog inner voice critic

How to quieten your inner critic and love your inner cheerleader

Unkind thinking does not motivate, in fact quite the opposite. When you change your inner critic to a more empowering voice, you will feel your ...
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Five signs you’re working in a toxic school

Five signs you’re working in a toxic school

Sometimes we find ourself in the wrong school for us. Perhaps our values don’t align or we don’t share the same philosophy of teaching and ...
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Best 70 quotes by women to inspire, motivate and empower

Best 70 quotes by women to inspire, motivate and empower

Do you love a quote to inspire you, to focus you back on your dream and to motivate you to dig deeper and dare to ...
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Model of Excellence Blog - empowerment

Leadership is an inside job

You have every thing you need within you, if you allow yourself to access it. And the words you use daily are key to unleashing ...
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Why compassion is key to success in leadership

Develop your self compassion and build your confidence If you want to build your confidence to be that authentic, ethical and compassionate leader in education, ...
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Break these 10 habits to stop your stress

Avoid Teacher Burnout

Break these 10 habits to stop your stress Reducing overwhelm prevents stress and will keep your teaching leadership dreams alive. These 10 thinking patterns could ...
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build your confidence

Dare to put your head above the parapet

Six ways to build your confidence to self-promote Although it feels uncomfortable at first, learning to self-promote in a way that feels authentic will help ...
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Ditch the Language of Doubt and Feel More Confident

Ditch the Language of Doubt and Feel More Confident

Our words can sabotage our success and undermine our confidence. Without thinking, we can say things that give the wrong impression or repeatedly teach ourselves ...
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Mindset Tips for Supply Teachers

Working as a supply teacher is a great joy as you get to meet so many young people and experience so many different school cultures. ...
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Make your dream come true blog

Make your dream come true

Have you made a resolution, written a list of things you want to achieve or written an objective for the year in your planner? Are ...
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13 Ways to Boost Your Career Success this Year

Do you dream of a leadership role but you haven’t been spotted yet? Research has shown that women typically work really hard at their jobs ...
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Relationships, relationships, relationships.

Many of us will relate to the experience of underachieving because we didn’t like the teacher. And we probably know students whose grades dipped when ...
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The Three Rs for Stressed Teachers to Rejuvenate Banner

The Three Rs for Stressed Teachers to Rejuvenate

Perhaps you were one of many teachers who spent your first week of the holidays recovering from the stress of the year – sleeping late, ...
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Change your language and change their thinking

Our language both reflects our thinking and affects our thinking. By changing our language we can change our own thinking as well as the thinking ...
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Should I ‘Yes’ or Should I ‘No’ Now? Tips to Avoid the Yes Trap.

Do you say Yes too much or too little? Getting the balance right is key to your career success. Perhaps you say Yes to everything ...
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Is your stress due to a toxic school?

When thinking about returning to school creates a feeling of dread that’s deeper than Monday morning blues, when the thought of walking back through the ...
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Is your weight impacting your income?

Did you know that people judge others’ competence based on their weight? And that affects whether they hire and how much they pay. Shocking, isn’t ...
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Sleep your Way to Success

Deadlines. Targets. Performance data. Monitoring. So many of us go without sleep during the week, work late into the night or into the small hours ...
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Widening Waistline? Befuddled Brain? It could be Chronic Stress.

Some of us think we have everything under control and others of us feel like we’re about to snap. We all respond to stressors differently. ...
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