MAFS: A reality check on mindset
Married at First Sight is captivating reality TV, full of drama, fun, and surprises. What draws me in is how the ‘husbands’ and ‘wives’ navigate the challenges of the marriage experiment.
The power of cultivating a killer network beyond your workplace
While it’s essential to network within your organisation, spreading your wings and networking beyond your office walls can significantly amp up the benefits and opportunities available to you.
Crush it or be crushed. You can choose
Do you feel like you’re crushing it, or being crushed? At risk of burnout, it was executive coaching that changed everything for me.
Magic won’t bring your personal brand to life, but managing it will
It’s mystifying how we can be so organised in many parts of our life – exercising regularly, managing our workload, or researching the best whitegoods to buy – yet we expect our personal brand to develop magically without any effort.
Winner yesterday? Your game plan may not work in the future
Sometimes in work and life, when things get hectic of stressful, we lean on the same old tactics to get things done, and then we’re surprised or disappointed when we don’t get the outcome we want. Executive coaching can help.
Why liking stuff is just not enough: 10 reasons to go beyond the ‘like’ button in LinkedIn
Too often when I look up people on LinkedIn, I see that all or almost all of their activity is liking content. There are no posts made by those individuals. Or content is shared without comment. Often this behaviour is driven by a belief that keeping our insights and perspectives to ourselves is the safest game to play.
When you share what you know
Sharing what you know need not be impolite when it comes from a good place. Be a little vulnerable. Offer advice to stop someone else’s train from crashing. Share some work in progress and ask how it could be improved. You may be surprised at the response you get.
The rules of civility and decent behaviour in social media. AKA what would George Washington do?
There’s still plenty of value in social media engagement, but it’s up to us to behave like decent, empathetic human beings in the process. Here’s my take of a selection of George Washington’s Rules of Civility to guide your thinking about the insights you want to share, finding your voice and nailing what you want to be known for in the social world.
Why we eat broccoli and how to avoid enterprise social indigestion
It took an awfully long time for my children to learn to eat broccoli. It was put in front of them many, many times and the dietary benefits of it explained. After a while, eating it became habitual. This is the landscape we face when it comes to the use of social technologies in our organisations. We must help our people learn to eat ‘broccoli’ by helping them work out loud and share what they know in social channels.