Institute of Managers and Leaders: 5 Strategies to Stay Ahead in 2025
Publication: Goal Setting | Purpose-Driven Leadership | Work-Life Balance
As 2024 comes to a close, Michelle shares powerful 5 strategies to stay ahead in 2025, focusing on goal setting, purpose-driven leadership, and maintaining a healthy work-life balance. Read the full article at the Institute of Managers and Leaders. As 2025 approaches, it’s the perfect time to pause and reflect on the year gone by, […]
HR Director: Good Workplace Boundaries Should Always Lead from the Top
Publication: Employee Wellbeing | Leadership by Example | Sustainable Productivity | Work-Life Balance | Workplace Boundaries
In this article for HR Director, contributor Michelle Gibbings shares the importance of leadership by example and how setting clear workplace boundaries can enhance employee wellbeing, promote work-life balance, and drive sustainable productivity. Michelle explains why stepping out to lead from the front is essential for effective leadership. Read the article here. In the busyness […]
She Defined: 7 Ways To Better Disconnect From Work
Publication: Boundary Setting | Digital wellbeing | Disconnect from work | Work-Life Balance
Thanks to She Defined, Michelle shares seven practical ways to better disconnect from work, focusing on boundary setting, enhancing work-life balance, and promoting digital wellbeing to help you truly switch While you now have a legal right to disconnect from work, you may still find it challenging to switch off when your working day ends. Do […]
In The Black: Learned helplessness at work: what it is and how to beat it
Publication: Overwork Culture | Toxic Behaviour | Work-Life Balance
Thank you to Nicola Heath and In The Black Magazine for featuring insights from Michelle Gibbings, a global executive coach, on how to beat helplessness at work. In the article, Michelle explores how toxic behaviour, overwork culture and poor work-life balance contribute to learned helplessness and shares practical tools to help individuals regain control and […]
The New Daily: Bleisure travel works wonders as a perk
Publication: Bleisure Travel | Employee Benefits | Work-Life Balance
Thanks to Kate Jones, Senior Reporter at The New Daily for inviting Michelle Gibbings, a leadership speaker, to share her insights on bleisure travel perks. Michelle highlights how blending business and leisure can enhance work-life balance, boost employee engagement, and serve as a valued employee benefit when implemented consistently and thoughtfully. Blurring of work-life boundaries […]
What’s on your ‘Back to Work’ Checklist?
Publication: Career Planning | Proactive Behaviour | Work-Life Balance
If you have school-aged children, you’ve likely been spending part of last week getting ready for the back-to-school routine. Casting my mind back to childhood, the week before school started, you’d get organised. School uniforms were washed and ironed, and school shoes polished. Textbooks were wrapped in brown paper or contact paper (does anyone else […]
Is it too much of a good thing?
Publication: Goal Setting | Mindful Productivity | Work-Life Balance
Welcome to the first Weekly Insights for 2021! I hope you had time to rest and recharge over summer, so you are ready for another interesting year. At this time of the year, most people take time out to think about their goals for the year ahead. For some people, that activity may be cursory […]
When is enough, enough?
Publication: Intentional Living | Productivity limits | Work-Life Balance
At the start of the year we are often asked about all the things we want to do during the year. We are encouraged to set our goals, objectives and areas of focus. Now I am certainly one to focus on goals and I love nothing better than a to do list, where I can […]
Is your pre-Christmas holiday deadline real?
Publication: Holiday deadlines | Prioritization strategies | Work-Life Balance
It’s a couple of weeks until Christmas and no doubt you have a long (and perhaps growing) list of things to do, tasks to complete and projects to wrap up before the end of the year. Are you feeling relaxed and happy, or stressed out wondering how you’ll get […]
Eight bad habits that could be impacting your career
Publication: Career habits | Productivity Tips | Work-Life Balance
When you think of bad habits, what springs to mind? Not getting enough exercise, eating badly, or watching too much TV. The list can be long. Mostly the habits we recall are personally focused, and things we connect with life outside the working environment. And yet, just as you can have poor lifestyle habits, you […]