As a leader, your job is to guide and inspire your team. Your staff may often turn to you for insights—but leaders aren’t perfect. You won’t always have the answer to every question or problem, and that’s OK. However, it can be difficult to accept...
Remote work is on the rise, and whether you’ve recently adopted some flexible work options or have an all-remote company, it’s important to have formal work policies just like you would with a more traditional office. However, managing an office versus a remote...
In our business life, as the financial year comes to an end, we prepare budgets and targets, set goals, have performance reviews and board meetings. The planning process for the year ahead begins in earnest. We know what the negotiations over budgets and targets look...
With the outbreak of Coronavirus, immediate adjustments needed to be made to how people travel, how they deal with a threat to their life and how they work. Very quickly we saw travel warnings enacted. Stay at home! Keep away from affected countries. But what about...
Did you know that January 17th is the official ‘Ditch New Year’s Resolutions Day’? That’s because, by this date, most people do actually ditch the resolutions they’ve made for the New Year. Research shows that by January 17th, our intentions, resolutions, goals,...
A while ago, I watched an interview with Peter Senge and right at the end, he said something that really made me pause For him, it may have been a bit of a throwaway line right at the end but for me, it was a highlight of the interview. Things are way too urgent to be...
What is the one thing you’d really love to do but keep saying you just don’t have the time? For me, it’s playing the saxophone. I think that in the last year, I’ve probably played it less than 5 times. This is an activity that makes me really happy even though...
Let’s talk about procrastination… Yes… I admit it, I am a procrastinator. I think most of us are… and perhaps in some areas more than others. Some examples of the kinds of things I procrastinate on: Admin Exercise Packing a suitcase before I travel The crazy...
A few weeks ago, I asked a question on LinkedIn and Facebook: What would you do with an extra hour every day? Imagine that our day was now 25 hours instead of 24. Would that help us or hinder us? What will you do? Would we just do more of the same or really use it as...
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