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Are you critical or credulous?

Strategy, Decision

We need to question ideas we’re presented with. Put some rigour around them, and test the evidence that underpins them.

How do you maintain focus in a chatty cubicle?

Communications

Research shows staff in such workspaces send more emails, spend less time interacting, and are more miserable. The killer stat is that open plan consistently leads to lower rates of concentration.

Be “more strategic”

Strategy

It’s something several of my coaching clients have been told at times. And for them, unless they’ve been given a really concrete idea of what their boss is (and is not) looking for it’s been really frustrating.

When you only have so much capacity

Decision

One of the things organisations wrestle with when planning their strategy is what to let go of.

The Importance Of A Big Idea

Strategy, Communications

What do you see when you look at your organisation’s strategic plan? When you read it, do you have a feeling that you’re part of a business that is breaking new ground? Is there a frisson, a little shiver of excitement running down your spine?

Stuff or substance

Decision

Is most of your work-day filled with purpose? Do you know where your time goes and what your effort goes towards? We all have the same amount of time in our day. So how is it that some people seem to manage it better? It seems to be less about managing time and more about managing self.

Drawing a line in the sand.

Communications

I’m not a ‘no excuses’ kind of person. I think there are things in life that take precedence to work. But, as I write in this article, someone else’s disorganisation doesn’t have to become my problem. If you don’t show up to my program because ‘iForgot’ you don’t get private tuition.

Kondo Your Brain

Strategy, Decision

“Every mind is a clutter of memories, images, inventions and age-old repetitions. It can be a ghetto, too, if a ghetto is a sealed-off, confined place. Or a sanctuary, where one is free to dream and think whatever one wants.”

Stumbling Blocks to [Communications] Strategy

Communications

Last year at the International Association of Business Communicators Asia Pacific conference I asked delegates what were the biggest barriers to doing [good] communications strategy faced by their teams.