1 minute to… Boost your confidence

1) Confidence is only measured by how confident YOU feel. So, although we sometimes fret about what others think, we don’t need to change other people's perceptions of us, just how we feel about ourselves, and that’s easiest to do.

2) Others will be guided by how you act, so appear confident: stand up tall, breath easily, make good eye contact, speak knowing you DO know what you are talking about.

3) Boost your brain. Wake up those parts of your neurology that know all about confidence, by mentally TAKING YOURSELF BACK to a time when you felt very confident.

4) Talk to yourself positively; use the present tense (‘I am’ not ‘I will be’) and positive words rather than negatives ('I am confident' not 'I am not going to mess this up')

5) You can do it!!

Phil Parker

Top Tips for Networking

1. Know what you want to achieve from attending the event – set some clear objectives

2. Dress to impress – wear something that makes you feel great and will make you stand out (in a good way!)

3. Get your elevator pitch ready – have something snappy and interesting prepared that is intriguing and promotes a conversation

4. Listen to what others have to say - if you are interested in them, they will be interested in you

5. Take plenty of business cards

6. Smile and be charismatic – people will gravitate towards you naturally

7. Follow up on the people you meet with an email or invitations to your facebook or linked in pages

Helen Harding

Almost one third of employees distrust their leaders

The Kenexa High Performance Institute asked 10,000 employees whether they trusted the senior leaders of their organisation - 48% said yes, 28% said no and 24% were undecided. They also found that employees are nine times more likely to consider leaving, and 15 times more likely to report unreasonable work stress, if they distrusted their leaders.

This is extraordinary! The cost to organisations of loss of staff due to poor leadership is phenomenal. Great leadership requires the ability of leaders to inspire and support staff, to treat staff even handedly and to rise above ‘personality differences’ which requires leaders to have exceptional self management skills. 

P4 is designed to teach leaders these skills, so that they can spot when they are not acting in the best interests of the organisation and their staff, and so they have the ability to take appropriate action and to be an inspiring role model!



Simon Pimenta

Be SMART outside of work too

We spend our working lives making plans, setting objectives and measuring whether we achieve them.
Do you do this in your personal life too?
Do you know what you want to achieve and where you are going?

So many of us drift along not really knowing what we want to do and are taken by surprise when we notice that years have gone by and we haven’t fulfilled our personal ambitions even though at work we have achieved great things.

Take some time to think about what you really want to achieve – family, travelling, experiences, sports, arts – the list is endless.  Allow yourself time to fully consider your dreams and ambitions however distant they seem and then apply the same principles that you would at work by setting yourself some SMART goals.  This way you will have identified what you want and be heading in the right direction, towards self fulfilment.


Helen Harding

Bullies Beware!

It is fantastic that Nicola Roberts is standing up and speaking out against bullying: http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-24009516-nicola-roberts-talks-loud-and-clear-about-need-to-tackle-online-bullying.do 

It is about time that this obscene behaviour is addressed and outlawed.

At P4 we have trained clients, in the fight against bullying, to bulletproof themselves against the attackers and instead of being passive to the onslaught, be able to decide how they wanted to feel and respond.  www.p4training.com

Helen Harding