5 ways to ease the workload pressure

5 ways to ease the workload pressure

I have said it before, and I’ll say it again.  Or rather, I have quoted him before, and I will quote him again. Patrick Lencioni, author of 5 Dysfunctions of a team, says “If everything is important, then nothing is important.” It’s one of...
Lessons in leadership from a virtual parents evening

Lessons in leadership from a virtual parents evening

What if I told you that the 10-minute window at your virtual parents evening was a mini-course in how to facilitate dynamic and meaningful and performance reviews?  How would you like to turn your micro meeting about phonics or GCSE option choices, into at least...
Meeting Fatigue – Why You Need To End Bad Meetings Now

Meeting Fatigue – Why You Need To End Bad Meetings Now

Who could have predicted at the beginning of 2020 that we’d be having all our meetings via video conferencing?  I can’t be the only person who wishes they’d invested in Zoom shares back in March. In all seriousness, despite having access to multi functional video...
Why journaling is good for business

Why journaling is good for business

I know what you are thinking. “This woman has seriously lost the plot. I’ve got an important report to deliver by the end of the week, meetings every day, and an ever-changing Christmas list from my kids that I need to order online when I get home. Plus, I need to...
Making meetings matter

Making meetings matter

“Argh”, I hear you cry, “not another meeting!”. Organisations are being held to ransom by a ‘meetings culture’ and leaders are struggling to make them matter. The average UK worker attends 3.7 meetings a week. They spend 1 hour and nine minutes preparing for it and 1...
How to end the meetings culture that is taking over your life

How to end the meetings culture that is taking over your life

It’s official – you are wasting your life in meetings. There appears to be an epidemic of death by meetings. The number of clients that are complaining of feeling stressed and overwhelmed is on the rise, and one of the most significant factors that they cite is...

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