This week I joined another Action fir Happiness webinar, this time with Tal Ben-Shahar. It was the first time I’d heard him speak but because I’d seen his name linked to so many international happiness events, I really wanted to hear what he had to say. It was a vey...
When we are experienced at something we think we have all the answers or at least, that we should have all the answers. We plough on with what we think is right until a confident someone says, “erm, do you think that maybe that’s 6 instead of 5?” and we realise we’ve...
I had some great feedback about my blog this week and a suggestion for further blogs - how to become more self aware, which has got me thinking.... Now you know that my model of self awareness has 3 layers, right? ◦ Internal self awareness: recognising your own...
A brilliant colleague of mine has started running lunchtime professional development session. Just 30 minutes, to watch a video and discuss its meaning to you. Today’s discussed revolved around intention, as a leader. We talked about how values drive intention which...
You are what you read. That’s what an email from Harvard Business Review told me today. And I agree. We’ve discovered that what we read online feeds what is shown to us online, due to the clever algorithms employed behind the scenes. It makes it doubly important that we research broadly, read widely and think holistically……….
I’m so glad that the Democrats have won. If you take our Equality Act as the yard stick by which to judge Trump, the last 4 years have been a considerable retrograde step. Yet men and women, young people and old people, black people and white people have voted for him. People have nailed their colours to the mast and it’s not a shade of grey, it’s as black and white as red and blue……………..
Today feels like a day of being in limbo. No the kind that comes with a sandy beach and cocktail umbrellas. The kind that has you wondering, waiting and worrying…………………
It’s tough to be motivated right now. COVID, lockdowns, terrorism, fascism, dark morning, wet days, early nights, need I go on?
As leaders how do we motivate people when so much of the challenges impacting motivation is out of our hands? Here are some thoughts………….
I’ve heard people refer to careers by portfolio as side hustles. But that makes me think of pick pockets and slight of hand con artists! So I’ll stick with ‘career by portfolio’. And as I type I realise how closely related this is to the idea of expert generalists…. So, bear with me…………………………..
When I wrote the definition of leader effectiveness in my thesis, I found that listing the good, positive, bright side as well as the bad, negative, dark side was really helpful in presenting a rounded definition of what it was and what it was not……………………
I’ve been thinking about specialism versus generalism for a while and today I stumbled on an article from Harvard Business review discussing the value of generalists in the world of research and development. The article talks about the benefit of generalist researchers who have a breadth of knowledge versus specialist researchers who have a depth of knowledge…………………
On the weekend I spent a few hours watching some of the presentations of the Jobs Reset Summit, hosted by the World Economic Forum. I caught a session on ‘A Vision for Leadership in the Great Reset’…..