How to Motivate Employees as a Manager
People join organizations but leave managers. This probably isn’t the sort of advice you want to hear when you become a manager (I know I didn’t), but it’s true anyway....
The problem with being a step ahead
The Great Saunter group. I’m in the back, smiling through the blisters. Earlier this month, I headed to New York for the Great Saunter. And...
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What if … ?
A cluster of inspiration What if … ? The first company I worked with after leaving university was? What If! We called it ?! for short (I’m not sure why...
How to Become a Great Leader and Bring Out Your Team’s Best
One of the best bits of advice I ever got was to have a “to-do” list … and also, a “not-to-do” list. The best outcome is always a combination of...
Are you telling the same old story?
Theory and practice for the exercise ahead Are you telling the same old story? Summer here in the Northern Hemisphere, and it’s often a chance to get away from the...
What’s Next? 5 Useful Ways to Deal With Empty Nest Syndrome
By all accounts, raising a child is tough work – it’s also paradoxical. You should feel like you’ve summited your biggest mountain as a parent. But as your children venture...
What Keeps You Going: How to Persevere During the Tough Times
You know that feeling, that temptation to throw in the towel? Me too. After all, life is amazing, beautiful, and surreal, but it’s also an inherently bumpy ride. It gets...
Plumped up, pumped up & ready to go!
I’m moisturizing like a Badass! How I’m deliberately authentic My podcast interview with Lewis Howes went live yesterday. Lewis is a big name in the pod world. As evidence, when...
Three wishes (and a twist)
Djinn? Call me. Three wishes (and a twist) I’m a word geek, and one of my favourites is genii/djinn. I love them for their spelling. All of those double letters,...
Keep going. (Also: Get Going)
Shannon, Box of Crayons’ CEO, and me after not quitting an exercise class together Don’t quit* I’m enjoying the Huberman Lab podcast. Andrew Huberman, a neuroscientist and professor at Stanford...
Keep Hosting
Fiona Macaulay, Amii Barnard-Bahn & Diane Ryan – some of the 100 Coaches in Nashville Keep Hosting I spent the weekend before last with the “100 Coaches”, an assortment of...
How to Engage With Others: 5 Ways to Inspire People
“Employee engagement” – it’s one of those phrases that’s so often used, that it’s now almost empty of meaning. It means everything and nothing … And if it does mean...
Where I find inspiration
Grannie. Where I find inspiration July 4th. It’s quite the date. The end of the book launch. The 21st birthday of Box of Crayons. The final day of the Ottoman...