Is your office really full of divas, or do you just need to recruit better?
In the past few months I’ve had similar conversations – albeit with different specifics – with three business founders. Each of these discussions touched on the instances whereby there is a culture of staff who seemingly resent having to do extra work or push back when the flexibility of their…
25 Micro-Habits of High Impact Managers
“Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help to orchestrate the energy of those around you.” – Peter Drucker A while ago, I read an article on leadership habits by Tamnay Vora, who said: “Managers are linchpins who have…
Voice notes at work?
Some years ago – before remote working was a standard ‘thing’ – one of my co-workers used to leave voice messages on Slack and Whatsapp. No one really liked it, and it became a bit of a running joke (albeit one she was aware of). But she persisted. As trends…
Personal Responsibility vs Leadership Responsibility
“It’s not my responsibility” I spotted a graphic on LinkedIn recently which talked about personal responsibility (it was similar to the first image below). It’s premise was around healthy boundary setting. The problem was that the creator of the graphic had posted it into a LinkedIn group around leadership, and…
Watch: 7 recycled Disney Scenes
Anyone else feel like a bit of their childhood has gone forever? Have you ever watched a Disney scene and got a sense of déjà vu? Well it turns out that isn’t suprising, because Disney has recycled scenes from loads of their movies. Once you’ve seen the sequences side-by-side, you’ll…
Identifying your leadership strengths – an exercise
Whilst working with a newly promoted leader last week he was wondering what type of leader he ‘should’ be. He’d clearly got a solid idea about what leadership is and what ‘good’ looks like, but he wasn’t clear about his own style and where to leverage his strengths. In truth,…
Who’s on your personal board?
Everyone needs a team of people, a personal board who can provide support throughout their life. These are the people you can call when faced with day-to-day decisions, crossroads and challenges, or just to lend an ear. You might ask for their insight or ideas, their point of view of…
How do I improve my motivation to exercise? 10 science-backed tips
A few of you responded to my article a few weeks ago in which I wrote about my dwindling motivation towards exercise since completing my half marathon at the end of last year. Since it seems a few of us are in the same boat, I thought I would share…
Are you (really) listening? A simple exercise to gauge how good a listener you are…
At the beginning of this year, I held a workshop with 25+ people from the team at JAA, a media agency in London. The workshop was all about inspiring individuals to have more commercially curious conversations in 2023 – challenging them on how they might be able to better serve…
5 things high performing teams do differently
An interesting piece of research from ignite80 that suggests that the highest-performing teams have found subtle ways of leveraging social connections during the pandemic to fuel their success. The findings offer important clues on ways any organisation can foster greater connectedness — even within a remote or hybrid work setting…