I saw this in Do the Work by Steven Pressfield. I know a few people who think they procrastinate too much or wait for the perfect solution. How about this for inspiration? Don't prepare, begin. Remember, lack of preparation is not the enemy; it's not the difficulty of the project, or the state of …
Practising change not powerpointing it
What does it take for you to take on board a new habit? To stick to a new gym routine, to journal daily? To walk a little further? A lot right? A lot of commitment and a lot of daily practice and when you fall off, you dust yourself down and start all over again. …
Keeping it human as you lead change
As senior leaders and managers with all our big thoughts and strategies (!), as we design change it is so easy to forget the human angle. What I'm trying to say is that it is really easy to forget how hard we personally, as individuals find change. Just look at all those intentions to exercise …
Looking at difficulties
I love this poem and the questions it encourages us to ask ourselves. What would you leave in Paris? Who is your friend who would say "See Paris first"? #Coaching can be a great resource to get to know how you could be holding yourself back. See Paris First by M Marshall Cooper Suppose that …
Can you dare?
At the back of your mind is there something you want to do but you can't quite dare? Something you are dreaming of trying, an issue you want to tackle, a relationship that you want to leave behind. Coaching can help with all those issues, and I love finding poems that might also inspire and …
Iron Sky by @PaoloNutini
I love this song, it reminds me that we can change ourselves and our world - try it for inspiration. https://play.google.com/music/m/T5stva5qrvawbjb6ivdih7oatbq
What’s your influencing style?
Influencing is such a large part of leadership roles - influencing on the future direction or your team and organisation, influencing your colleagues, influencing your team members. Yet, when we are up against it we revert to habitual ways of communicating - not matter what the circumstance or audience. This great article from Ashridge can …
Meditation and the chatter of our minds
For coaching clients who want to become more self awareness and to gain some perspective on their thoughts and emotions I've found that meditation is a great help. It helps me see the sort of things I think about a lot and just that alone opens up more possibilities for me to do things differently. But, this …
Selling the problem or selling the solution?
I've been recapping on some of my thoughts about making change work and helping teams to thrive. Many of these have either been gifts from really experienced, insightful people, great books or my own experience in planning and delivering change. My first reflection is that we need to start engagement at the beginning rather than at …
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Lets play – does that sound more enticing?
State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory, http://floridamemory.com/items/show/67060 Development can be too dull and worthy. Dull and worthy doesn't get done - our lives are just too busy. New opportunities and possibilities remain unexplored. What if we took our development just as seriously - but saw it as playtime? Time to explore, try things, do tests? …
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