What do you care about enough for you to face your fears? I was listening last night to a podcast interview with Kelly McGonigal (a Stanford psychologist and educator), and she shared that she overcame her debilitating fear of flying by realizing that she taught others to face their fears but wasn’t facing her own….
Month: January 2020
What does it mean to become a more senior leader? I have found that the timescale where people focus is a useful heuristic. “
What does it mean to become a more senior leader? I have found that the timescale where people focus is a useful heuristic. Somebody new to work is focused on delivering on the tasks they are given by their manager each week. Managers think at the timescale of months e.g. how do I organize the…
Intention, Attention, Action”
Intention, Attention, Action A coach shared this model with me a couple years ago, and it continues to resonate with me and my clients. We start with Intention – a desire for life to be different in some way. Whether that is starting a new habit, or modifying an existing behavior, we must first identify…
We’ve all heard the advice that “Practice makes perfect”. I was fortunate to have a violin teacher as a kid who told me that advice is just wrong, because he said that what actually happens is that “Practice makes permanent”. “
We’ve all heard the advice that “Practice makes perfect”. I was fortunate to have a violin teacher as a kid who told me that advice is just wrong, because he said that what actually happens is that “Practice makes permanent”. Neuroscientists say that “neurons that fire together, wire together” – the more that you perform…
Sometimes we don’t realize that what is simple and obvious to us is not simple and obvious to others. For example, I thought my previous LinkedIn post on using weekly snippets to remain focused on your priorities was so boring that it was barely worth posting, but I wanted to keep my 2020 commitment of regularly posting to LinkedIn. To my surprise, it has gotten more engagement than almost anything else I’ve posted here. Meanwhile, other posts that I’ve thought were deep and thoughtful got much less engagement.”
Sometimes we don’t realize that what is simple and obvious to us is not simple and obvious to others. For example, I thought my previous LinkedIn post on using weekly snippets to remain focused on your priorities was so boring that it was barely worth posting, but I wanted to keep my 2020 commitment of…
If you find yourself forgetting key tasks, or getting distracted by less important activities, I suggest a simple weekly snippets practice. Snippets was a company-wide tool at Google, and I found it useful to keep myself focused. “
If you find yourself forgetting key tasks, or getting distracted by less important activities, I suggest a simple weekly snippets practice. Snippets was a company-wide tool at Google, and I found it useful to keep myself focused. Each week, I would jot down my top 3-5 priorities for the week, as well as record what…
Pay attention to who leaves with the “monkey” in each workplace conversation. I appreciated this analogy when I first heard it (described in “
Pay attention to who leaves with the “monkey” in each workplace conversation. I appreciated this analogy when I first heard it (described in https://lnkd.in/gvfpEfQ among other places) – the idea is that you can imagine that the burden of who has the responsibility for taking the next step is a monkey sitting on their back….
Common sense, and yet uncommon in practice. How many of these 8 suggestions are practiced by your current manager?
Common sense, and yet uncommon in practice
Common sense, and yet uncommon in practice. How many of these 8 suggestions are practiced by your current manager?
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