Ian Henderson
MBA, B.Sc
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- Personal development, communication, sales
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- Author, speaker, facilitator, trainer and coach
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- Institute of Leadership and Development
Ian Henderson is one of the UK's leading leadership and management trainers. As Director of Training at Eagle Training, one of the UK's leading training companies he has worked in the personal development arena for over 20 years and in that time has helped literally thousands of people in the UK, Europe, the USA and Africa to do more, achieve more and become more. His appetite for learning and helping others to do the same is infectious, with a philosophy of 'good is not good enough when great is possible'. Ian is a proponent of the need to take responsibility in life in order to be the most we can be and offers his clients and audiences everywhere a blend of high challenge and high levels of support.
Ian has appeared on CNBC's MoneyWheel TV programme and on BBC radio in the UK. His personal development book "Algenon's Story" was published recently and he is the author of several articles. He is married to Wendy and has 2 children.
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How to Demote Yourself
Many years ago I read Dr Stephen Covey’s seminal work ‘The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People’. It made me think about the crucial difference that exists between being efficient and being effective. I came to define efficiency as ‘doing the job right’, whatever the job was. Effectiveness, on the other hand, I defined as ‘doing the right job right’.
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Making a Difference is So Easy
It might sound conceited or arrogant for you to say that you make a difference in the lives of others every day, but it’s true. The real big question is what difference, positive or negative, are you making and to whom? You don’t have to be a global leader like Barack Obama to impact the lives of others every day. I believe that you are always making a difference, every day, in ways that you might not be aware of. As soon as you leave your home you become a cause in your life and the lives of others, probably without ever realising it.
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Potential - The Greatest Waste of All
There is a famous story about a block of marble back in the 1400s. For over 40 years the block of marble was deemed flawed, useless and had been cast aside. Many sculptors looked at it but none believed it to be useful for sculpture until in 1501 a 26-year-old young man saw something very different. He alone saw the potential inherent in this block of marble.
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Take Responsibility to Control Your Thinking
It has been said that as an animal, we humans are pretty weak. In a straight fight against a lion, tiger or bear there is little or no doubt that we’d come off worst. We are smaller, slower, weaker and more fragile. We don’t see as well, hear as well or smell as well as some animals do. So, how is it that we humans came to rule the planet?r
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Ian can be contacted by email at ian@ianhenderson.co.uk