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Data reveals that the average adult is only able to focus for 6 minutes before doing a ‘just check’ of email, IM, social media and news. In today’s chaos, I predict that most of us are ‘just checking’ even more frequently.

This level of distraction promotes feelings of stress and overwhelm, making it impossible to work productively. How can we accomplish meaningful work in intervals less than 6 minutes? [Read more…] about 7 Tips for Optimising Your Focus in Uncertain Times

What is Leader as Coach?

Have you heard of Leader as Coach; the shift where leaders optimise employee engagement, connection, energy, creativity and agility through a coaching management style?

Fundamental to the Leader as Coach methodology is the facilitation of regular coaching-style conversations. Regular coaching conversations are pivotal to earning respect; building connected, high-trust relationships; developing employees’ motivation and engagement; and creating a high-performance culture. [Read more…] about Leader as Coach: the benefits of asking great questions and the limitations of telling

Want to have, be, and do more? Want to stretch time?

We’ve heard it over and over – each of us have the same 24 hours a day, it’s how we spend our 24 hours that is key to high performance and personal fulfilment.

Yet, have you ever felt that despite being organised, rested, reasonably in control, and knowing what you need to do, that you still have untouched goals and uncompleted tasks? Perhaps you have elements of your job that frustrate you and even though you know that doing them will propel you forward, you rarely get to them.

Managers – quite possibly, you’ve had to micromanage people in your team in order to get certain elements of their job done well and on time. [Read more…] about How Understanding Your Values Can Propel You Toward High Performance & Personal Fulfilment