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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
Why do we struggle to have great ideas?
Reading Time: 4 minutes As leaders and managers, we’re often expected to have the great ideas, brilliant insights and action plans that will help our people and organisations turn
Great results: Strategy 5 – involve others
Reading Time: 5 minutes If you’ve read through my previous series on how to have great ideas, ‘involve others’ will be a familiar strategy for you. There’s an excellent
Leadership toolbox: how to build self-awareness
Reading Time: 8 minutes Self-awareness is a key life and leadership skill. At its most basic level, self-awareness is about developing your knowledge and understanding of yourself, and being
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
Great ideas: Strategy 8 – use a facilitator
Reading Time: 5 minutes So far in the series, we’ve looked at strategies that directly apply to our thinking. In this post, we’ll look at a strategy that helps
“What you heard isn’t what I said!” How to prevent miscommunication and get your message across
Reading Time: 7 minutes A large part of modern work and life centres on communication. But how often have you been surprised when someone misinterprets something you’ve said? When
Why A Fellow Traveller is More Powerful Than Empathy
Reading Time: 4 minutes Empathy is wonderful, but what’s even more powerful is connecting with a fellow traveller. I learned that from talking to my cousin The picture by
Great results: Strategy 4 – set goals and track progress
Reading Time: 8 minutes This article addresses one of the most important aspects of any change process – to set goals and track progress. Change programmes always face challenges.
Why we need to make time to play
Reading Time: 8 minutes When was the last time you were at play? Hopefully, it was in the last few days. But if you’re like most adults, you’ll probably
Opinion: Why We Need to Embrace Paradoxes
Reading Time: 2 minutes The more that the world seems to be divided into extremes, the more I am drawn to the middle. Not mediocrity, fence-sitting, or refusing to
How-to: be a great leader during a crisis
Reading Time: 9 minutes Leadership is a challenging endeavour at the best of times. You’re juggling multiple streams of information, competing goals, shifting targets, and the glorious messiness that
Ask yourself: why do you ask questions?
Reading Time: 9 minutes Chances are, you’ve been taught there is such a thing as a “good” and a “bad” type of question. Typically, this refers to open-ended questions
Great ideas: Strategy 7 – don’t prejudge your ideas
Reading Time: 7 minutes We’re shifting focus slightly in this post, to look at a strategy that will keep our thinking and idea generation as broad and open as
Great ideas: Strategy 2 – read, watch, and listen broadly
Reading Time: 7 minutes Welcome back to the “How to have great ideas” series. My previous article covered the first strategy for having great ideas, which is to have
Great results: Strategy 1 – prioritise
Reading Time: 7 minutes It’s one thing to have a bunch of great ideas, it’s entirely another to turn those ideas into great results. The first step in the