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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
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
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
Great Ideas: Strategy 5 – know nothing, be curious
Reading Time: 6 minutes This strategy sounds counter-intuitive, but the “know nothing, be curious” approach puts us on the pathway to developing fresh perspectives and gaining insights. And from
Work-life balance or work-life harmony?
Reading Time: 8 minutes So much has been written about work-life balance, but there are a number of problems with the concept. Work-life harmony offers a framework that acknowledges
Success – what matters more, talent or hard work?
Reading Time: 6 minutes We live in a culture that worships talent as the path to success. Have you heard people describe someone at the top of their game
Why Gardening Is A Great Metaphor For Working With Strengths
Reading Time: 10 minutes This morning, as I sat outside with my coffee admiring my summer flowers, I realised that gardening is a great metaphor for working with strengths.
Mindset: how to transform your life
Reading Time: 7 minutes Over the course of our lives, we develop and adopt beliefs about ourselves and how the world works. The word “mindset” is the collective name
Why we need to ditch certainty and embrace uncertainty
Reading Time: 8 minutes Certainty is highly prized; so much of what we do and say revolves around creating certainty for ourselves, or projecting an aura of certainty for
Great results: Strategy 7 – use your strengths
Reading Time: 7 minutes If there is one strategy that comes close to being a silver bullet for almost anything you want to achieve, it’s to use your strengths.
If you want to be good at something, first you’ve got to be bad
Reading Time: 5 minutes There’s a simple truth in life that I have encountered too many times to count… If I want to be any good at anything, first
The joys and perils of working from home
Reading Time: < 1 minute “Work from home”, they said. “So few distractions”, they said. “Lots of opportunities for focus and deep work”, they said. This happens multiple times a
Leadership Toolbox: getting to grips with empathy
Reading Time: 5 minutes In my first Leadership Toolbox post, I talked about the importance of self-care for leaders. Self-care involves turning our attention inward, to manage our own
Multitasking is a myth – how can you achieve more in less time, and feel better by single-tasking?
Reading Time: 8 minutes Once upon a time, “Multitasker Extraordinaire” was the big, shiny badge we all wanted to wear. We thought we could be super-human, combining conference calls
Happy birthday to Unleash Your Awesome!
Reading Time: 4 minutes Happy birthday to Unleash Your Awesome! It’s hard to believe that my first book is now a year old! The first month was a blur