I regularly publish posts and articles on science-backed tools, best practices, techniques, insights, strategies and knowledge. They’re all designed to make the “human” stuff a little easier.
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Recent articles
Why you need to choose your failures
Reading Time: 3 minutes Which of your recent failures did decide on in advance? I know, you’re probably thinking, “Aren’t I meant to be planning for my successes, not my failures?” The short answer is, “No”! Read on to
A Tribute to the Humble Nana Nap
Reading Time: 4 minutes I’m a HUGE fan of the nana nap. There, I said it! I often see comments like “You can sleep when you’re dead” or “Sleep is for the weak”. As though this core human function
What Many Approaches to Strengths Get Wrong
Reading Time: 4 minutes I love the huge variety of strengths-based approaches that are out there, but many of them get one key thing wrong. They focus on the extremes of super-strengths and worst weaknesses, and make only passing
Never Mistake Stability for Certainty
Reading Time: 3 minutes One of the most common thinking traps that we humans fall into is mistaking stability for certainty. I’ll bet you’re used to things being a particular way. The amount of traffic on your commute. What
Is Your Team Made Up of Rockstars or Superstars?
Reading Time: 3 minutes I love the distinction that Kim Scott makes in her book ‘Radical Candor‘ [non-affiliate link] between rockstars and superstars. And I think it has huge implications for how we lead, manage, and shape teams in
Podcast Appearance: How to Use Your Genius Strengths to Do More of What You Love
Reading Time: 18 minutes My friend Karl Craig-West hosted me on his podcast to talk about how to use your Genius strengths to do more of what you love. We talk about how you can figure out and use
Series pages
Series: How to turn great ideas into great results
Reading Time: < 1 minute Welcome to my series on “How to turn great ideas into great results”. On this page, you’ll find links to the articles I’ve written detailing
Series: How to have great ideas
Reading Time: < 1 minute Welcome to my series on “How to have great ideas”. On this page, you’ll find links to the articles I’ve written detailing strategies for having
General posts
Never Mistake Stability for Certainty
Reading Time: 3 minutes One of the most common thinking traps that we humans fall into is mistaking stability for certainty. I’ll bet you’re used to things being a particular way. The amount of
How to use an emotion wheel to build your emotional intelligence
Reading Time: 6 minutes An emotion wheel is a great visual aid to help us identify how we’re feeling, and also to expand our emotional vocabulary. Being able to identify emotions is a key
Great ideas: Strategy 10 – use your strengths
Reading Time: 8 minutes This is the “capstone” strategy for this series, because it is the strategy that can wrap around all the other strategies: use your strengths. It’s “normal” (though definitely not ideal!)
What Are Your Unrealised Strengths And Why Do They Matter So Much?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Imagine that you are facing a problem that is preventing you from moving forward, and you don’t know how to solve. You try one thing after another. Something that has
You’ve got just enough time to do one less thing
Reading Time: 4 minutes Time. How often do you hear yourself or others say that you don’t have enough of it, or you’re running out of it, or you wish you had more of
Is Your Team Made Up of Rockstars or Superstars?
Reading Time: 3 minutes I love the distinction that Kim Scott makes in her book ‘Radical Candor‘ [non-affiliate link] between rockstars and superstars. And I think it has huge implications for how we lead,
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