Depending on how much you love Christmas that heading made you sigh or smile……..
The thing is many of us wait until 1st January to think about how we want our next year to pan out.
But imagine if you started now – If there is just ONE thing you would like to be different you can make a start with one small step.
And then another.
As always I’m taking a break from writing new blogs in August to recharge my batteries (I try to practise what I preach) so over this month I will be sharing four of this year’s most popular blog posts with you. If you haven’t read them yet….here’s your chance!
This week it’s:
As always I’m taking a break from writing new blogs in August to recharge my batteries (I try to practise what I preach) so over this month I will be sharing four of this year’s most popular blog posts with you. If you haven’t read them yet….here’s your chance!
This week it’s:
As always I’m taking a break from writing new blogs in August to recharge my batteries (I try to practise what I preach) so over this month I will be sharing four of this year’s most popular blog posts with you. If you haven’t read them yet….here’s your chance!
This week it’s: Tricky Workplace Conversations
As always I’m taking a break from writing new blogs in August to recharge my batteries (I try to practise what I preach) so over this month I will be sharing four of this year’s most popular blog posts with you. If you haven’t read them yet….here’s your chance!
This week it’s: This article in The Guardian outlines why, even though you might be the smartest person in the room, you struggle to move ‘up’ or ‘on’ in your career.
There’s been a bit of a theme in the team coaching and 1-1 work I’ve been doing this last couple of months and I wanted to share it with you.
It’s this – we say we want people to contribute, to share ideas, to challenge our thinking – and yet we do just about everything to stop this from happening. Quite unintentionally, of course.
Here’s a couple of recent examples:
For many of us, the summer holidays can’t come soon enough. And yet you know that there’s a huge amount to be done before you leave for your much-needed break…. And much as you need to totally relax when you’re away, you just KNOW that there will be things you ‘have’ to deal with from your sunbed, mountain or lake…..
You know what? It really doesn’t have to be this way.
Last week I wrote about the importance of building a firm foundation when you lead or join a new team.
This is not a ‘one off’ exercise but it doesn’t have to mean you spend days and days off-site unless you choose to.
I’m currently working with three senior teams who have had quite significant changes to their ‘membership.’ One has a new leader, the other two don’t but the ‘make-up’ of the team has shifted quite significantly.
They all have a massive amount of ‘stuff’ which needs their attention. But if they focus on that only, at the expense of building the team from the ground up, they could run into difficulties later.
Why?
It saddens me that so many people with really valuable and useful things to say don’t get heard. And yet the verbose, self-aggrandising wafflers get plenty of airtime!
It saddens me because when I first became a senior leader, I struggled to get my voice heard too. And when we are often brought up to believe that it is ‘rude to interrupt’ (is it? Always?) it can be a real struggle to speak out.
Here are 5 reasons your voice is not being heard – and what to do about it:
