This article will help you clarify what’s happening on the inside so that you can rebalance and “find your flow” in 2021 – despite the chaos and uncertainty around you!
This Is Why You Can’t Reach That Big Goal
It is crucial that the feedback you get is valuable – especially feedback about your Blind Spots (things about you known to others, but not to you). This is a big challenge as this information can be hard to come by, especially from your team and direct reports. However, for you to grow and develop yourself, it’s critical that you get access ASAP. Success in achieving your goals depends on it – especially the ones that really stretch you. This article aims to help you tackle this challenge.
This Is Why You Should Keep Wasting Your Time
Je ne parle pas anglais – the short bark I got every time I asked a train attendant for help. I’d flown into Paris a week earlier and even managed to find my way into the city center, despite a city-wide transport strike. But this was a whole new animal ...
How to Regain Your Balance and Perform at Your Very Best
What is really going on? Without a doubt, life can be crazy. At times it feels like the walls are closing in around you - work is out of control and your personal commitments are exploding... However, could there be something else going on with you? ...
TO BE OR NOT TO BE: HOW TO VERIFY YOUR TALENT
“I believe every artist had someone who told them they were dirt and someone who told them that they were the second coming of the baby Jesus, and they believed ‘em both". – Bruce Springsteen BBC Radio 4 Springsteen’s observation got me thinking… ...
The Cult of Productivity: Why Self-Improvement Is a Slippery Slope (& What NOT TO DO About It!)
“Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.” – Robert Levine Do you ever feel like time is slipping out of your control? And as a result, you have to make the best possible use of your limited time? Or that working more efficientl ...
The Cult of Happiness: 10 Simple Ideas to Stop the Circus and Redirect the Love
“The floggings will continue until morale improves.” Can companies turn happiness into a management tool to be measured or a skill to be improved? As the joke illustrates, I don’t think so. In “Against Happiness”, the economist Schumpeter shines ...
How to Declaw Culture’s Impact on Change: Be Dogmatic about Dialogue, not Do’s & Don’ts
"Globalization on Steroids + Hyper Industry Disruption + Job Uncertainty & Constant Change" = Reality for most professionals circa 2018. So does cultural awareness still have an “extremely important impact on Change” as reported in Prosci’s ...
How to Transform Natural Talent into Unique Strength
"People have several times more potential for growth when they invest energy in developing their strengths instead of correcting their deficiencies" (StrengthsFinder 2.0). "What's right with people?" - this the question Gallup scientists set out to ans ...
HOW TO CHECK YOUR BLIND SPOTS FOR REAL CHANGE
There’s a BIG MISMATCH between how you think you’re viewed by others and how they actually see you. In fact, you really have no idea how you come across. “What matters about you, to someone else, is whatever has the most meaning for them – not for you,” ...