Are we collectively holding our breath?

Are we collectively holding our breath?

I was chatting to a leader about how his team were doing, and what he was noticing in his world of work: “I don’t know what to call it” he said. “Is it burnout? Wellbeing? Change fatigue? Mental health? I don’t know. I just feel like we...
3 ways to create safety around mistakes

3 ways to create safety around mistakes

One thing I often explore with a team or organisation in a Struggle talk, is the culture around making mistakes.Specifically how safe is it, to talk about and learn from mistakes? And what helps?Here are three practical ideas: #my-latest-mistake At Think Productive,...
Facing change and building space

Facing change and building space

One of the unintended benefits I noticed when the pandemic first hit, and we all had to get used to working and living in a very different way, was that our collective tolerance for imperfection increased. We were all trying new things, reinventing business models and...
What do you do when things don’t work out?

What do you do when things don’t work out?

Last week I wrote a column for my local paper on ‘how to find your dream job’. The punch line was essentially: you don’t, you create it as you go. Here’s an extract: The job I do these days didn’t exist when I was choosing my degree and planning my career. But even if...
Broken plans

Broken plans

In a world that is unpredictable, it is so much more important to decide who we are going to be, than to plan what we are going to do. Plans can go awry, what we do may change, but we can always, always stay true to who we choose to be. This week, I found out that a...

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