Should managing your own energy be a KPI? We say yes

Let’s face it, at work many people say they need more people. Adding more tired people to the tired people that are already there is generally the last thing that we need.

Many leaders and their teams are tired. When we ask people to rank their energy levels on a scale of 1-10, 5-6 is pretty common. This is not a way to live and work and yet people are seeing this as normal, and “just the way it is”. Yikes. There is more to life. To […]

Sometimes our clients approach us with a request for me to do a resilience session or a performance mindset of some description. Firstly I love their optimism, (and maybe their faith in NEP)…

Too many of us see procrastination as a moral failing or that we are horrible, lazy, indolent creatures with no discipline. The truth is, we will procrastinate. Especially if the task at-hand is emotionally overwhelming.

Culture can be very broadly defined as “the way we do things around here”. Some companies have this really well defined. Most, less so.

Before the pandemic, there is no doubt that internal meeting fatigue was already a thing. But as more people switched to meeting online, meetings that were already fatiguing unfortunately became even more so.

It’s no surprise that many people are evaluating their working options, and so many leaders are coming to us asking us for help with staff retention.

Probably one of the most common ambitions people have in coaching sessions is to find more consistent energy.

Regardless of the size of the company, when it comes to solving problems there are a number of complex interweaving systems and issues at play.

Zoom’s bad name has been getting worse, of late. The terms “Zoom fatigue” and “Zoom burnout” depict our current situation where, forced to work from home or grounded in our home countries, we have been using the video-conferencing tool as surrogate, and in that developed high levels of exhaustion.