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Pick your path: stress, guilt, fear
What problems are you battling with right now? If it's one of these three things, I have some useful stuff that might help.
Strategy and strategic planning
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Pick your path: boundaries, decisions, focus
What problems are you battling with this week? If it's one of these three things, I have some useful stuff that might help.
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How to make hard decisions more easily
Have you got a hard choice to make? Whether it's at work, or at home, having tricky choices ahead weighs on you, even when you aren't actively...
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Make peace with problems
Let me paint you a picture of a workshop I facilitated recently. Fourteen senior leaders crowd around the boardroom table of an artful...
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Understanding idea technology
Idea technology, a term by Barry Schwartz, is an excellent framework for thinking about the ideas that drive our thinking and decisions.
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7 ways to feel better about your job
Work is a pain in the proverbial. It's also where most of us will spend most of our waking hours. The average person spends over 13 years of their...
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Save your relationships with quality questions
Bad questions kill relationships. When we turn up to a meeting, conversation, or email powered by judgement and annoyance, our questions reflect...
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Big questions enable bold choices
Most meetings and workshops are a waste of time. They're full of people resolving trivial issues that could be handled by email or delegation with...
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Master the world’s most valuable skill
Critical thinking is the world’s most valuable skill. Unfortunately, being overworked and overwhelmed keeps people from learning how to do it. They...
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The problem is never the problem
Picture this: you're frustrated with your partner. They've loaded the dishwasher wrong, again, and they've left the door wide open for you to knock...
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Business Planning in a Recession with Bright Spot Thinking
Earlier this week, I was working with leaders from a large corporate to set some strategic priorities. Talk quickly turned to how to survive the...
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Don't Be Afraid to Narrow Down
Little known fact: the more specific you are about what you want, what you'll do, and what you won't do, the more likely you are to get it. When you...
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Create Systems Change
Ever started a job and had that new-starter clarity? You're baffled by all the things that don’t make sense and say annoying things in meetings like:...
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Strategists Get Whatever They Want
Here's something strategists know that not everyone else does: you can have literally anything you want, at work, home or in your life. Nothing is...
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How to Care About Your Job Again
If you've woken up today with a sense of dread about what awaits you at your desk, you're not alone. A 2019 Gallup poll found that out of the world's...
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Unwinnable Games
On Sunday, I got busy organising and optimising for a packed week. Between school runs, home maintenance disasters, travel and work, I knew I was in...
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Nail Your Next 8 Weeks: How to keep strategy alive
In this article: How to run a great strategic check-in Free template for a 2-day strategy session Strategies are great, and 3-5 year plans are...
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Find Your Why Journey Update #2
I recently sent out a Wednesday Wisdom about a traumatic time I've experienced in my personal life and business.
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Stop Using Meetings to Build Your Culture
When I run Meetings that Matter, I challenge learners with this controversial idea:
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Why Your Team Needs A Meeting Policy - and What To Include
Take charge of your conversations I'm a big fan of individuals taking charge of the meetings they're in. In fact, I'd love to banish boring and...
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Find Your Why Journey Update #1
I recently sent out a Wednesday Wisdom about a traumatic time I've experienced in my personal life and business.
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Tell, Don't Sell: How to get what you want at work
I had a great conversation with an IT leader in Australia this week. She was doing good work, but she was feeling increasingly frustrated by people...
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Meetings are Murder
Every session I run, in every organisation, inevitably turns to the meeting problem.
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Get your meetings under control: 6 questions to help you banish back-to-backs
Everyone is having too many meetings. In many teams, people click from one conversation to another, becoming paradoxically more bored and overwhelmed...