Category: Manage myself

How’s your to-do list looking for this week? Back-to-back meetings in your diary… in-box overflowing… staff appraisals overdue… Most people in leadership roles would be fairly familiar with that state of affairs. When you’re juggling so many balls and being pulled in all different directions with day-to-day management tasks, how on earth do you find […]

Way back in 1994 I took delivery of my very first (and sadly, only!) company car. Naturally, I thought I’d made it! I thought I had finally arrived at the top of the tree. It was a bright red Renault 18 with lots of fancy stuff, like part leather seats, air-conditioning and electric windows. Oh, […]

Ok, it’s confession time. My CV is not 100% accurate. Actually, that’s not 100% accurate. I’ll re-phrase it and tell it how it is; I tell a big fat lie on my CV. I guess that now I’ve gone public with this uncomfortable fact, I’m going to need to fish out my CV and ‘make […]

Written by Christine Petersen FIML, Managing Director at Time Technology   It has served us well and it is now time to let it RIP…   Peter Drucker a futurist and management guru wrote in the 80’s about the 21st century workplace saying – “The single greatest challenge facing managers will be to raise the productivity […]

By Heather Gibson, Managing Director at Pendulum Partnership I cultivate leadership and love being a leader. It’s a very large part of who I am and my mission is to help other leaders develop their mindset through enlightened discussion and reframing that is grounded in my own leadership experience. Whites of the eyes conversation; relentless agility […]

Written by Carolin Lenehan   Annie Parker’s journey into the intoxicating world of startups began atop Mount Kilimanjaro, where she pulled out her phone, and in a single text, quit her job. “I thought I’d get this huge adrenalin rush when I finally made the summit, but instead I fell in a heap and cried,” […]

Emotional intelligence will still be a key attribute once AI takes over our rudimentary work. By Candice Chung   It’s a question straight out of a science fiction novel . . . will artificial intelligence eventually replace us? As machines continue to get smarter, and our appetite for quotidian technology grows, it makes sense that […]

By Emma Bannister   A powerful presentation is our most critical tool in an organisation today. We use them to build buy-in with our team members, to communicate our big ideas and connect with employees to inspire them into action. Yet the majority of the time our presentations are bland, boring and the only impact […]

By Leann Webb FIML, Managing Director of Aurora Marketing   When I think of successful entrepreneurialism, I see it as intricately connected to innovation. Innovation is at the heart of successful business, so as an entrepreneur you need to know how to innovate. And not just once, but over and over again so that you […]