Get organised with your emails
Do you keep all your emails in one never-ending list in your in-box? That’s a bit like having an overflowing pile of project papers, magazines, business cards, and letters from months back in the...
View ArticleHave you got the email habit?
So, who’s in charge of your email in-box? You are. Who gets to decide when you look in there? You do. It’s as simple as that. Interrupting what you’re doing to check emails breaks your thought flow and...
View ArticleMicro-management? What a turn off
I’m about to work with a fast expanding third sector organisation where one or two managers are a little too keen to micro-manage their reports. The Chief Exec has identified it’s going on and is...
View ArticleEmail etiquette – ten top tips
I was chatting with an old colleague last week and she was despairing of her charity’s massive email problem. What she was saying was not new. It seems there is a major epidemic of ’email overwhelm’...
View ArticleHow not to spend the first ten minutes of your day
OK, confession time. I started my working day today with a long session on Facebook. There, said it. I know I’m not alone. One of my one-to-one coaching clients recently fessed up that she often kicked...
View ArticleFour short words to cross the Pacific
Have you come across the blog www.coxlesscrew.com? It’s the personal reflections of four British women who rowed into Cairns harbour, in Australia on 24 January after crossing the Pacific – all 8,446...
View ArticleSqueeze me, squeeze me!
I’ve just come off a coaching call with one of my non-profit clients. She’s dynamic, dedicated and efficient but was thrown by her latest annual appraisal. She’d missed a few targets and was...
View ArticleHow not to let your day run away with you
Ever find yourself at the start of the week wondering, in the immortal words of David Bowie, “where the **** did Monday go?” We all have days when things never seem to get done. I know I do, and it...
View ArticleLet’s Talk About Happy
I coached two very different third sector leaders this week. One is stressed out, overworking and overwhelmed. She’s up at the crack of dawn to get into the office, missing her yoga and fun nights out...
View ArticleHow to be inclusive – despite the bias
A guest blog by Lucy Gower, Founder and Director at Lucidity. There’s a lot of talk about diversity right now. Diversity just means different. Every single one of us is a unique human being with...
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