Category: Productivity
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Energise your team to make an impact
Energise your team to make an impact Richard Ferguson July 20, 2023 I talked in a previous blog about the significant challenge that leaders and leadership team face right now – tired and probably not performing to their full potential. Ground down from relentless pressure, managing ongoing uncertainty and low resilience levels, all exacerbated by the difficulties…
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This too will pass!
This too will pass! Richard Ferguson February 25, 2022 Whilst walking the dogs along the river this morning it was hard not to notice how high the water was after all the rain and storms of the last week or so. I took a picture and remembered the same picture I took last year when…
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Do you take one day at a time?
I have talked many times before about the strive for mindfulness or being present and focussed on the job in hand, the here and now, rather than allowing oneself to get carried away ruminating about what might be or what has been. We cannot control what happens but we can control how we choose to…
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Is great leadership defined by what we stop?
I was reflecting earlier today, on my trundle round the snowy countryside with the dogs, about the nature of leadership – both personal leadership (of self) and the leadership of others (teams, functions, organisations). It was sparked by a number of conversations I had recently with different people – all with a similar refrain, the…
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It\’s the little things that matter
I am writing this blog sat on a ward in one of the Greater Manchester Hospitals with my wife Kirsty awaiting further exploratory tests on a suspected Gall Bladder problem (hers not mine). Having spent most of Saturday at A&E it has been an interesting few days – not least because we have been experiencing…
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Outside In – the Magic Mirror
One of the things that holds organisations, teams and individuals back is the inability to see ourselves as others see us, we get locked into a view of the world that is framed by our perceptions and assumptions, which by definition are self-limiting. A case in point was a recent training experience with Tiggy, the…
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Are your priorities clear?
In my morning meditation earlier today Andi Puddicombe (Headspace.com) shared an interesting provocation. “Imagine if you only had today – how would you spend it?” That focusses the mind on what your priorities are doesn’t it? Mahatma Gandhi said that “action expresses priorities” – what you do, what you pay attention to, is ultimately what…
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4 ways of maximising shareholder value – for YOUR life!
I have just watched my daughters drive off up the road to school – Alice, the eldest, passed her test in early December and Maisy has already assumed the role of ‘Lady Muck,’ with the god given right to be chauffeured everywhere! I was just sat in my office and looking out the window as…
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I bet fear is getting in your way somewhere?
I wonder, as we get sucked into the hugely commercial fiasco that is Halloween this evening, what you are scared of? I am scared of spiders, of upsetting or letting people down that I care about and I am not overly keen on small spaces if I am honest! Apparently we are born with only two…