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Unlocking Personal Potential: Understanding the Uncommon Personal Assessment

The Uncommon Personal Assessment is not just a tool; it's a beacon of self-understanding. At its core, this personal assessment is a structured framework crafted by Uncommon, aimed at unraveling the complexities of personality traits and tendencies. Drawing inspiration from nine feminine goddess archetypes spanning various mythologies, this assessment offers a profound exploration of individuality.

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Unlocking Personal Potential: Understanding the Uncommon Compass

The Uncommon Compass offers a dynamic approach to goal-setting, inspired by the winding heroine's journey and the four symbolic locations of mythology and literature. It embraces the community aspect of personal evolution, guiding members to navigate their unique paths towards success through continuous course correction and self-reflection.

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Exploring the Dynamics of Coaching Sessions at Uncommon

Embarking on a journey of self-discovery and professional growth often requires guidance and support. At Uncommon, we recognise the significance of personalised coaching sessions tailored to individual goals and aspirations.

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How to manage difficult conversations at work

We’ve all avoided having difficult conversations at some point in our lives, whether with friends, family or colleagues. These uncomfortable conversations – whether you’re communicating to a client that their project is delayed or delivering negative feedback to a direct report — are an inevitable part of work life and people management. Our ability to confront these types of conversations plays an important role in breaking barriers at work, standing up for ourselves, leading teams, creating opportunities and clearing misunderstandings.

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Webinar – “Balancing dual-career relationships” 

During our February webinar “Balancing Dual Career Relationships”, we ask our panellists husband-and-wife duo Sonia Palmieri and Vikas Garg; wife-and-wife duo Sandrine Provoost and Denise Yu; and relationship therapist Theresa Pong how couples in ambitious careers can successfully tackle the challenges they will face throughout their lives together and thrive.

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In a world of AI, ‘soft skills’ are what help your career stand the test of time

Technical skills are undoubtedly essential in an age of AI, big data, and automation. However, it doesn’t eclipse the ‘human-centric’ side of work – skills like creativity, critical thinking and intercultural fluency that robots can’t do so well. In fact, we believe that in an era of AI, these skills we misdefine as “soft” are what get you ahead.

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