Bored at Work? Pay Attention
Publication: Career Development | Employee Engagement | leadership | Meaningful Work | workplace boredom
You are three slides into an update when you realise you stopped listening two slides ago. Your eyes are on the screen. You may even look attentive, but your mind has quietly gone elsewhere. Or perhaps it is the report you have written so many times that it has become almost automatic. The meeting where you know what […]
Skip-Level Meetings: How to Build Trust, Not Suspicion
Publication: Career Development | Leadership Communication | Organisational culture | skip-level meetings | Workplace Trust
One of my clients was recently preparing for a skip-level meeting with their C-suite leader. The invitation landed in their inbox with no context or supporting details. In a highly political and complex environment, the hardest part was not deciding what to say. It was working out why the meeting was happening and what was expected […]
Yahoo Finance: 6 expert tips on how to master the art of negotiating
Publication: Career Development | Negotiation Skills | Workplace Negotiation
Thanks to Yahoo Finance for the opportunity for leadership development speaker Michelle Gibbings to share her expert insights on how to master the art of negotiating. In this article, Michelle outlines six practical strategies to help you strengthen your negotiation skills, navigate workplace negotiation with confidence, and advance your career development. It could be a […]
Make it easy please
Publication: Behavioural Science | Career Development | Productivity Tips
Recently, I was using an online service to book a couple of minor jobs around the house. It seemed like an easy process, until the person who accepted the job didn’t show up. To get it sorted and the money refunded it then became a complicated process to find out how I could contact the […]
Are expectations shaping the role you play?
Publication: Career Development | Mindset & Perspective | Personal Growth
William Shakespeare’s play ‘As You Like It’ used the metaphor of the role you play in life as a stage. The melancholy nobleman, Jaques, says to Duke Senior: All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays […]
What did you want to be when you were growing up?
Publication: Career Aspirations | Career Development | Career Expectations | Mindset Shift
What did you want to be when you were growing up? A teacher? Chief? Pilot? TV presenter? Surgeon? Initially, I wanted to be a member of Charlie’s Angels (well I was only 7 at the time, and it was one of the most popular TV shows at the time!). I then I wanted to be […]