Stop rising to every challenge!

Rising to the challenge is often seen as a strength which can easily become overused. Maybe it’s a habit, a way of seeking dopamine or getting recognition.

Or maybe you really do need to address the challenge. It’s important to know how to decipher when to say yes and when to say no.

Tips for giving effective feedback  

Feedback is challenging for a lot of people and it’s absolutely useless if the feedback isn’t received by the other party.
This article provides some tips for how to create the conditions where feedback is more likely to be heard.

Tenacity: life saver or death sentence?

Tenacity is useful – to a degree. We need to temper it with self-awareness, some discipline and a willingness to change our habits of thinking, lest we end up being resentful of others’ relative “laziness” or we suffer from burnout.

W.A.I.T.

Great conversations are two-way, where both people listen and both have a chance to talk.
WAIT (Why am I talking?) is a useful acronym to keep yourself on point, relevant, staying in THIS conversation and not overloading others with too many words or concepts. Why are you talking? What’s the message? What’s your intention?

Practice makes perfect. Or not.

Practice helps us improve what we do, but are you practising the right things and improving the way you want?
If there isn’t reflection time and some kind of feedback, you might never know what you could achieve.

Make the most of your vacation when you return to work

When returning from a break away from work, we feel refreshed and reinvigorated. We have more access to creativity, clear thinking and problem solving. We can preserve some of that feeling if we set some boundaries for ourselves and the stressors around us.