It can be scary looking under the bonnet of your car…you don’t know what you might find, and what you don’t know can’t hurt you, right? Well maybe, until the car breaks down in the middle of the freeway necessitating an expensive tow, an engine reconstruction and a whole lot…
Most workplaces these days have a designated safety officer who, supported by a myriad of policies, procedures and systems, helps identify and manage the risk of workplace accident and injury. Recently I’ve noticed I also have my own internal safety manager who monitors my choices, decisions and actions to prevent…
We are born naturally curious – we want to know everything there is to know about the world, soaking up information and experience like a sponge. But at some point our curiosity becomes a burden. Maybe adolescent arrogance, a narrowing of our perspective about what’s important, or simply the fact…
Despite Kotter’s 8 steps, Bridges’ 3 phases, ADKAR’s 5 stages and Lewin’s 3 actions, the literature is overflowing with examples of failed organisational change projects and the trails of destruction left in their wake. Why? “Organisations don’t change… People do”. So, no matter how lean your thinking, how strategic your…
As I start to write this article, the familiar feeling of anxiety creeps in. Within a heartbeat, I’m procrastinating furiously – checking emails (again), tidying my top drawer – you get the picture? Why so, when writing articles is important to me, people tell me I’m a good writer, and…
Expending physical, emotional or mental energy depletes us – if we don’t replenish our energy we run the risk of collapsing physically or suffering burn out. Even the Eveready Bunny eventually conks out! But there’s another type of energy we can tap into – relational (social) energy – and it…
What’s your favourite procrastination activity? Cleaning the house, tidying your desk, internet browsing? For me it’s filing – I can quite happily while away time saving documents into their right place, then re-naming and reorganising the structure of my folders! Procrastination is the deliberate and voluntary delay of something we…
Sadly I have a plethora of unhealthy (well, perhaps untreatable) indoor plants in my house. I hold myself completely responsible – I’m not good with them. When a plant gets sick or dies, we don’t blame the plant – we generally take responsibility for not providing the water, sunlight or…
It’s true that some people are more easy-going than others. But even the most tolerant amongst us, at some time, wish that others would behave better. My manager is rude My staff are lazy A colleague doesn’t respect me The kids never clean their room…. Once these behaviours start to…
There was a time when we despised interruption – the phone call in the middle of dinner, the disruptive employee with another urgent question, the kids wanting something just when we’ve sat down to read our favourite book. Now days, if we don’t take a call during dinner, check something…
