Share Your Work in Progress
Reasons to share your works in progress, especially when you’re not very good yet.
Reasons to share your works in progress, especially when you’re not very good yet.
Your job is a temporary station that forms a small part of your life. If it isn’t working for you, change it.
If you’re frustrated at work, and wondering if it has to be this way… you’re not alone. People are opting out of corporate bullshit, and you can too.
Help for three of your most pressing problems: managing stress, banishing guilt and overcoming fear. Enjoy.
There is only one thing separating scared people, and people who know how to do scary thing: action. Action converts imagination into reality.
If you crave meaningful work, it might not happen by accident. Here’s how to shape a fulfilling career, by asking 5 questions.
Help for three of your most pressing problems: setting boundaries, making hard decisions and focusing your time and energy.
How to make hard decisions, broken down into three easy steps: frame, evaluate, test.
People who are healthy, happy and satisfied don’t waste their energy worrying what others are doing. Happy people don’t judge you.
If you’re struggling to feel good about your job, don’t quit just yet. Try these 7 ways to feel better about your job.
ChatGPT is the latest AI tool to break the internet. Learn how to beat AI and stop it stealing your job by asking better questions.
Check out Alicia’s top 10 business and personal development books for your summer 2022 reading list.
Use your core values to make tricky decisions and improve how you feel about your life.
The problem is rarely the problem. Strategists know that, and they don’t waste time blaming people, when systems are usually at fault.
Business planning in a recession asks for bright spot thinking. Work backwards from the things that are workinhg instead of focusing on problems.
Burnout is killing us – but the answer lies within us. Are you owning your reality?
When you work towards the grain, you generate incredible results and find endless reserves of energy and creativity. When you work against it, you suffer in silence.
The planning paradox – the more specific you are, the more your opportunities expand.
Take a personal inventory of where you’re spending your time, to eliminate the things that threaten your personal or professional peace.
Most people don’t like their jobs. It’s often not the job that’s the problem, but the way we think about it. Reconnect to your sense of meaning this week.
You can have literally anything you want – and it’s astonishingly easy to do it. Learn the strategist secret.
Most people don’t like their jobs. It’s often not the job that’s the problem, but the way we think about it. Here’s how to care about your job again.
Odds are, to survive professionally or socially, you’ve dampened some of the most interesting things about you. Those are the things that offer the most value to the world. Own your outcast status.
The Queen’s death is a powerful inciting incident. An opportunity to ask important collective questions about our history and the kind of society we want to live in. Is it time for you to muse?
It’s time to stop shrinking, find your big voice, and use it. The world needs you.
Some games can’t be won, and need the rules need changing. Stop trying to optimise yourself and start tearing down the structures that keep you trapped.
Change is hard, even when we want it. Before things improve, they tend to get much worse – and here are five key reasons why that happens.
Stop pointing fingers at people when you talk about change and focus on the systems that need shifting instead.
Ask meaningful questions about your purpose with Questions Of The Day. Rediscover what drives you and what you care about as I travel alongside.
Being nice is a dangerous game. Taken too far, we damage relationships, jeopardise safety, perpetrate inequality and shortchange our impact.
There is no escaping problems, but you can use them as tools for learning, development, relationships, growth, service and leadership.
Ask meaningful questions about your purpose by joining in with this Question Of The Day experiment. Find your why alongside me as I make sense of things.
The potential for outrage is high right now. How can you have controversial conversations without descending into conflict?
We spend 5x as much time lurking, watching and comparing ourselves to the public versions of others than we do interacting with people we care about. Eesh. No wonder we’re trapped in our own heads.
Making intentional choices about what is your responsibility, and what isn’t, means being OK with upsetting people.
Humans are wired designed for meaning and contribution.. Create your personal strategy to maximise your contribution.
Create new coping strategies that move you forward, and stop hanging on to the past.
The more information we have access to, the greater our need for shared experiences. Facilitate meaning, not learning.
Clarity is not the opposite of confusion – it’s on the other side. Here’s 5 important things you should know about clarity.
If you keep thinking about it, it’s a sign you need to do something.
Struggling to trust your teams to get on and do a good job? Here’s three things you can do to make delegation easier.
Moving fast and breaking things is great, but you should follow these 4 rules to prevent unnecessary stress and headaches.
Here’s a handy trick you can use to makes hard decisions a bit easier – and it won’t cost you a thing.
Changing your habits is hard – so before you start looking for things to take off the list, think about what you want more of instead.
Our social habits have been disrupted by the pandemic, and many of us just want to stay home now. That’s cool!
We’re all so busy – but what are we masking with those choices? Go beyond busy and ask yourself some scary questions.
Almost 500 New Zealand professionals tell us the three most important things you can do to rediscover a sense of purpose and meaning in your work.
Achieve more of your goals and get more of what you want with these 3 strategic thinking skills.
How to decide what kind of change you need to move ahead with.
There are 17 days until Christmas. The way I see it, you’ve got two options…
You’ll be better at solving problems if you can put work into perspective.
Constant dissatisfaction and a push for improvement are the symptoms of a person who cares a lot and is working hard. It doesn’t mean you’re doomed to keep feeling like that, just that you’ve got new skills to learn now, because what got you here isn’t going to get you there. It might be time to lev
Sometimes we have to make our own endings, to make space for new things.
We should always be a beginner at something. When we’re uncomfortably stupid about something new, we grow.
New research suggests from now on, business growth will be driven by data, brand, reputation, strategy and content.
It’s hard to take feedback when we take it personally. It’s hard to change our opinion when our identity is attached to it. It’s hard to change who we vote for, what job we do, or how we parent our kids if we’ve used that to define ourselves.
Life would be easier without bosses, colleagues and customers. Except… we wouldn’t have a job. People are the problem, but they’re also the point.
The reason we get together is to make things happen outside of the meeting. To build understanding, shape choices and make decisions that will get the wheels of progress turning. If we’re wasting time, we’re also wasting energy, money and opportunity – none of which is OK.
All good decision processes include action.
The company you keep matters. Target your networking to people who will help you grow.
If you’re worried about your job, your business or your future, stop building technical skills. There’s always a market for uncertainty.
Life is full of worries. Reduce your anxiety by focusing on upgrading your worries, rather than getting rid of them.
Stop avoiding the important questions in your life and let go of your addictions.
If you’re wondering how to become a CEO, think about the outcome you want – not just the achievement.
How to use crisis and challenges to develop new skills for the future.
Swapping out the occasional “I have to” for an “I choose to” or “I’m learning to” can have a transformational effect on the way we think about our situation. I mean, it’s happening anyway, so… why not?
Don’t stop growing and changing.. There’s always a way forward, it’s time to get unstuck.
Could we maybe diagnose different patterns of behaviour and thinking based on the language people use?
Feeling overwhelmed and put upon? Try this easy language hack to shift your thinking and feel better quickly.
What are you still telling yourself that you don’t need to? Can you speak to someone else with a different story?
If you want to find your purpose, you might need to change your search criteria first.
This week, we’re talking about perspective – do you need to zoom out?
This week, we’re talking about performance – are you working too hard?
This week, we’re talking about what flexibility is all about
Trust at work is declining, with disastrous consequences. Learn why this is happening and how you can rebuild trust in your workplace.
This week, we’re talking about how to treat ourselves as well as we treat others.
How can we be kind to others, when it doesn’t come naturally?
Seven things I’ve learned about how to handle a breakdown.
We all feel like sh*t sometimes. But it doesn’t have to be all bad – there’s a few decent upsides.
Everyone makes mistakes, especially when they’re doing something worthwhile. It’s what you do next that counts. Here’s how to learn from your mistakes.
Most advice on stress and resilience is short-term and unhelpful. Inside: eight powerful strategies that show you how to reduce stress.
Every habit, pattern and behaviour that annoys you once served a useful purpose. But strengths overused become weaknesses.
Lead change so that people care. Build buy in and commitment to your change project with these tips.
Living a peaceful, meaningful life means giving your values some legs. Enter: boundaries.
If you’re feeling overwhelmed by the remnants of 2020 and unsure what to take into 2021, try this guide to a 2020 digest – and have a read of mine.
If 2020 had one thing going for it, it was lessons. Buckets of them. Here’s five of mine.
Anger is not a feeling we’re not encouraged to have. We’re taught to ‘manage’ – aka stifle – it… and that sucks. Because anger is important.
Moving forward in our lives and work requires us to find acceptance. It’s not easy, but here are 4 steps to get you on your way.
You can take charge of your life by tackling these ten things.
Most things matter less than you think – when you put your long game lens on.
Why are some people so cynical and resistant to change? Probably for a good reason.
We need less change management and more uncertainty management.
It’s not change that’s hard. It’s what it represents.
Restructures, by any name, are not the answers to most of your problems. Check out this hierarchy to understand what you should focus on instead.
As Henry David Thoreau wrote: ‘Things do not change; we change.’
When you know what you’re not willing to compromise, you can let go of everything else.
Sustaining momentum is hard for everyone. Just keep going.
Good decisions are not about what we should do or will try to do; they’re about what we will do.
Four quick questions for facilitators to tame talkfests and drive focus in important conversations.
If you don’t have the resolve and determination to do good sh*t, leadership is not for you.
Heroes overcome the odds. Systems change them.
We need to be careful of the quiet times, because that’s when we lose track of progress. Public sector leadership means readiness for what’s coming next.
The lure of the new is powerful, but it can come at the expense of the now.
What makes a good decision good or bad isn’t the outcome – it’s how we make it.
Expecting to do important, different work inside the same constraints, environments and attitudes is a fools game.
You don’t need to worry about goals – think about your identity instead. What identity do you need to take on to build lasting change?
Nothing important happens by accident. Minutiae is the mint plant of your task garden.
So much of what we do isn’t seen, isn’t asked for and isn’t valued. I’m calling time on the invisible list.
Dig below the surface and grow from stress by asking better questions.
Perspective is a funny old thing – the things that are huge when they’re right in front of us seem to get smaller when they’re further away…
What rules do you need to set for yourself, to do more of what matters? True freedom is about making those rules and sticking to them.
Whether you’re driving technology change, process change, service delivery change, or any other kind of shift, we need people to come on the journey, and we need to make it possible for them to make ideas real.
How to get people interested in your change movement.
There is a right and a wrong way to handle project failures – one builds trust, the other breeds resentment. Move on from project failure the right way.
Focus on a single issue or behaviour to create better habits faster.
Amidst the festive chaos, I reckon this is the time to commit to calm. Are you with me?
Have you ever underestimated the importance of timing and suffered the consequences? Timing matters more than you think.
Making real progress in your work and life depends on your personal sense of agency. When you believe in yourself, you make changes, not excuses.
I’m going to let you in on a secret: people aren’t actually afraid of change…. they’re afraid of loss.
Why we need to be more like a baby and less like Adam Sandler when it comes to strategic progress.
Do you think it’s OK to fail? What about your teams, do they feel able to?
17 lessons marathon running became resilience skills training.
Have you been silencing tricky questions, brave ideas or a gnawing feeling in your gut? It could be time to embrace your inner rebel.
Time and space to rest, recover and reflect is critical for us to adapt to change. We simply don’t value it highly enough.
The habits that are required to successfully achieve a big goal are often more rewarding than the goal itself. Make the habit the result.
Good strategy isn’t enough. We need to turn strategy to action – and here’s how you can get started.
BAU doesn’t stop for new ideas. Intentionally create space for what’s important and take other stuff off the list to make it happen.
Smart people and organisations tend to know what to do – they need to know what to stop. What got you here won’t get you there.
What would you do if you won Lotto? Be ready to challenge your thinking about what’s really holding you back.
“The starting point is always now. The end is up to you.” – Ron Kaufman. Start now, not tomorrow.
Strategy gets a bad rap, because we overcomplicate it. Just do more of what makes you awesome.
“A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan next week.” – General George S. Patton, Jr.
Common sense is a real curse when it comes to solving problems.