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What are the hidden costs of efficiency?
Balancing the need for being efficient alongside the costs of efficiency is a continual juggle in our workplaces.
Are you over-functioning for your workplace?
Too often, we fall into the trap of excessive selflessness, feeling under significant pressure to equate personal depletion with effective professionalism.
Celebrating International Women’s Day
Happy International Women's Day to everyone celebrating the day!
Fostering Self-Awareness
The demands of both our professional and personal lives make self-awareness absolutely critical to our capability, our development, our ability to thrive and work sustainably.
Do you avoid giving feedback?
In this article, we'll explore some common barriers to providing effective feedback and conclude with three practical tips that can help us refine our feedback skills.
Creating Professional and Personal Sustainability
As we are starting to gear up for the year ahead, it’s critical to reflect on the habits and practices that support our wellbeing and capacity to thrive.
How do you measure a year?
As we approach the end of the year, it’s a natural time for reflection and contemplation. During the festive season’s hustle and bustle, it’s worth taking a few moments to ponder how we measure a year and what wisdom we can extract from it.
The Unfolding Quest of Self-Awareness
The unfolding process of self-awareness is more than a mere journey—it’s an essential quest. The unfolding journey can be riddled with obstacles, that can distract us from the necessary work of taking a neutral perspective and learn and grow at deeper levels.
From WOW, THAT’S FANTASTIC to WTF
Life, hey? One moment you’re basking in the ‘WOW, THAT’S FANTASTIC!’ glow, and the next, you’re blindsided and it’s WTF!!
The Importance of Self-Compassion During Challenging Times
Self-compassion is a critical component for navigating life's challenges. By extending kindness and understanding to ourselves during times of hardship, we can embrace imperfections and confront challenges with a balanced perspective. This article outlines the many advantages of self-compassion and practical steps to embrace it.
Outer progress starts with inner work
Career development isn't just about acquiring skills; it's about strengthening our inner foundation of self-leadership to cultivate fertile soil for our growth and development. In this piece, I've outlined key steps to help you build your sense of self, self-belief, and self-trust to provide the groundwork for outer progress.
Are You Setting Healthy Boundaries?
In our fast-paced world, where the line between work and personal life can often blur, establishing and maintaining strong professional boundaries is paramount. These boundaries not only safeguard our well-being but also ensure we can sustainably offer the highest level of care to our work.
Are you an Amygdala Whisperer?
In the realm of our work in the health and community sector, the ability to effectively manage emotional interactions is paramount. Individuals who are skilled at managing emotional responses and fostering a positive workplace culture can be referred to as 'amygdala whisperers'. In this article I share the traits of amygdala whisperers and tips on how we can practice these skills in our workplaces.
Practising compassion in your teams
As a leader, being able to step into the shoes of others, both individuals and well as our teams and to see things from their experience and emotional perspective is a game changer. One of the best things we can do as leaders is to intentionally cultivate compassion within our team. Here I provide some practice exercises to help you get started.
From Clinician to Leader: Navigating the Transition
When transitioning from practitioner to leader, it helps to reflect on good leadership models and aim to emulate them.
International Women's Day 2023: Thriving With Self-Leadership
I want to take a moment to consider the theme for this year’s International Women’s Day. It’s such an important topic, and seeing it being acknowledged is great for us all.
5 Leadership Myths to Let Go For Good
In the realm of leadership, you’ll often come across a range of long-standing ideas and perspectives around what leadership ‘is’ or ‘should be’.
New Year, New You: What Self-Leadership Goals Will You Set This Year?
While there seems to be some merit in the recognising that ‘new year, new me’ mindsets can set us up for failure, I think it’s all in how we think about our goals as long-term direction and progress.
Leading ourselves into 2023
During the course of 2022, the focus of self-leadership has changed.
Rather than using it to adapt to the uncertain world we were dealing with, we began tentatively using self-leadership to move beyond the day to day and shape the life, career and future we long for.