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...
by Alison Reid | Apr 15, 2024 | Leadership
Fact or fiction? Many of my clients appear to have an uncanny knack for mind reading. They can work out what other people are thinking and feeling purely from their facial expressions. For example, one Director can tell if someone thinks she doesn’t deserve her...
