by Alison Reid | Sep 16, 2024 | Leadership
Befriend the unknown Val*, an Operations Director, felt out of control. She and her team had been through a challenging time and she was anxious about what was going to happen next. She shared with me that she was worried that she was going to be thrown a curveball...
by Alison Reid | Sep 2, 2024 | Leadership
Are you present or preoccupied? I read an article over the weekend by a journalist who had taken her husband and teenagers on a digital detox break. She hoped that time without devices would help them get on better – and be less irritable! Smartphones are the...
by Alison Reid | Aug 5, 2024 | Leadership
Drop the baggage Are you an overpacker or an underpacker? My other half and I often go on UK-based self-catering holidays, our baggage limited only by what we can fit in our car. My classic overpacking item is a bulging bag of worthy, non-fiction books I’ve been...
by Alison Reid | Jul 22, 2024 | Leadership
When you can’t seem to stop If you read my blog, Being busy is overrated, a couple of weeks ago, you may have thought, “Well that’s all well and good, but how do I stop being busy?” You’re probably aware that your day feels like a race...
by Alison Reid | Jul 8, 2024 | Leadership
Being busy is overrated In her book “The Art of Rest”, author Claudia Hammond shares a super piece of research from Columbia Business School. Participants of the study were asked to assess the social status of a fictional woman called Sally Fisher based on two...
by Alison Reid | Jun 3, 2024 | Leadership
Meant to move When I first started working with Jess*, we discovered that she could get to 3pm without leaving her desk – and without realising it. Sound familiar? When we can do much of our work via a screen – and often from home – there’s no...
