What Keeping People Waiting Says About Your Leadership
Publication: leadership | respect | Time management | Trust | Workplace Culture
Years ago, I was told to arrive thirty minutes early for a presentation to the Board, just in case they were running ahead of schedule. They weren’t. I sat outside that boardroom for four hours. Then, my sixty-minute presentation got cut to thirty minutes. Then fifteen. Then ten. Eventually, the door opened, and I was told […]
Looking Back to Move Forward: Your Guide to Purposeful Progress
Publication: leadership reflection | purposeful leadership | strategic thinking | Time management
Two philosophers, separated by more than two thousand years, approached the same leadership challenge from different directions: how to live with greater awareness and intention. Socrates argued that the unexamined life is not worth living. Søren Kierkegaard is often translated as observing that life can only be understood backwards, but must be lived forwards. Read […]
Time Well Spent: How Influential Leaders Balance the Past, Present and Future
Publication: Influential Leadership | Leadership balance | Time management
Henry David Thoreau once asked, “It’s not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, what are we busy about?” In today’s hyper-connected, always-on world, the answer to that question has never been more essential. The professional norm around constant availability often equates value with visibility and busyness with commitment. But influence […]
Are your workplace habits helpful or harmful?
Publication: Employee Wellbeing | Productivity Habits | Time management | Workplace Habits
When you think of bad habits, what springs to mind? Not getting enough exercise, eating poorly, or watching too much TV. The list can be long. Mostly the habits we recall are personally focused and outside the working environment. Yet, just as you can have poor lifestyle habits, you can have poor work habits too. […]
Make the last quarter matter
Publication: Focus Strategies | Goal Setting | Time management
There’s no doubt that 2020 has been a strange year, filled with many things none of us expected, and yet once again, time is flying by. It won’t be long before Christmas and the summer holidays are upon us. So as the final quarter of the year is underway, how do you make the most […]
When time goes too fast
Publication: Being present | Mindfulness techniques | Time management
All around me people are commenting about how fast the year has gone with the wondering ‘What happened to February?’. Of course, we all logically know that time can’t go faster; it just feels like it is going faster. A friend once suggested that this was due to age. Her logic being that when you […]
Are you visible enough?
Publication: Leader visibility | Leadership presence | team connection | Time management
Meetings, meetings and more meetings are a constant feature of the modern organisation, providing a challenge for leaders as to how and where they spend their time. It can be really easy to have every workday filled with back to back meetings, and little time for interaction with your team. You become the invisible leader. […]
How to slow down, to speed up
Publication: Decision Fatigue | Reflective Practice | Time management | Work Pacing
Surprisingly, the 2016 census found that the length of the working week for most Australians hasn’t increased since 2011. And yet, most of us feel pressed for time and with an electronic device in each hand it can feel as though we never quite switch off from work. With ‘busy’ being the new catch-cry, it […]
Are you in the fast or slow lane?
Publication: decision making | Mindful Work | Productivity Balance | Time management
When you drive do you typically drive in the slow lane or are you in the fast lane? Are you the person who weaves between cars so you can find the fastest route, or are you the person who picks a lane and sticks to it? We are habitual creatures, so each time we drive […]
What’s stopping you?
Publication: Leadership Accountability | Progress Focus | Time management
It was the American author, Harold Blake Walker who said: “The only true failure lies in failure to start.” I like the sentiment that underpins that statement. But it needs to go further. There’s no doubt that it’s important to start things. To try new things. To have a go. However, if all you ever […]