by Lisa Gaines | May 30, 2023 | News
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...
by Lisa Gaines | Mar 16, 2023 | News
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...
by Lisa Gaines | Oct 28, 2022 | News
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...
by Lisa Gaines | Apr 11, 2022 | News
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...
by Lisa Gaines | Apr 11, 2022 | News
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,...
by Lisa Gaines | Feb 3, 2022 | News
Is the beginning of December too early to review defining moments from 2021? Hopefully not. One evening in September, I was involved in a hit and run car crash. The driver of the other car was caught trying to flee the scene, and was arrested and charged. Basically,...
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