My (mostly) weekly thoughts on leadership, high performance, wellbeing and more.
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The difference between influence and manipulation
You want to be influential but not a sleazy manipulator. Here’s 4 tips for keeping your influencing skills above board.
Out of control? How to reframe your relationship with time when the day runs amok
Do you ever feel like the day has a mind of its own, slipping out of your grasp and leaving you feeling frazzled and unproductive? Because I never have.
Kidding, of course! Probably all of us have experienced the frustration of lost control over our day.
But what if we shifted our perspective and realised that it's not about how we tame the day, but rather about how we relate to it?
Three counterintuitive tips for dealing with overwhelm as a senior leader
Let’s freshen it up. Here are three counterintuitive tips for dealing with overwhelm that may challenge your assumptions and help you approach the never-ending to-do list in a new way
Quieting your inner critic – dealing with imposter syndrome
Most of us are familiar with that nagging voice in the back of our heads that tells us we're not good enough, we don't belong, or that we're going to be found out as frauds.
But the good news is, impostor syndrome can be eased. Here are a few tips that have helped me and might help you too.
The Joy of Subtracting
Overwhelmed clients often ask me for tips and tricks to help them handle the demands on their time and energy.
Stop to think about it, though, and that’s bonkers. How is adding more going to help with overwhelm?