Asking For Help

Asking For Help

Asking for help could prevent you burning out and even save your life! I ran a team communication and wellbeing day for a wonderful high performing team last week. We spoke of the difficulty some of us have asking for help when we are overwhelmed at work and how that...
Stolen Focus

Stolen Focus

How Stolen Focus helped me understand my problem with attention, and make some crucial changes. The book by Johann Hari with the tagline ‘Why you can’t pay attention’ caught my eye as soon as I saw it on the bookshelf at the bookstore, so I went home and bought it on...
Skiing, and moving from a fixed to a growth mindset

Skiing, and moving from a fixed to a growth mindset

In my early years in Australia, I went on an adventure to the Snowy Mountains and tried my hand at snowboarding. A mistake I, and my friends made: we didn’t get any lessons. We were young and arrogant, and thought it looked easy. Not getting lessons turned out to be a...
Dealing with and overcoming rejection

Dealing with and overcoming rejection

If you’re a leader, business owner, service provider, in sales, human even, you will likely face rejection. Some of us with more regularity than others, and some people have a thick skin for it. Not me! But I work with it, and I coach clients around dealing with...
Let them speak, for goodness sake!

Let them speak, for goodness sake!

Interviewing and coaching have some overlapping skills. I love my podcast interviews but recently I have found myself getting frustrated on my daily walks, podcast in ear, with the interviewers.I can’t believe it when experienced hosts, some of them quite famous,...