Analytical

Giving and accepting feedback to and from your manager or direct reports or even your peers is sometimes a missed opportunity. We explore how to make feedback useful again.

Metrics can be very useful if they are carefully chosen. Badly chosen metrics can do more harm than good, so how can you tell the difference?

Teamwork is often thrown around as a concept, but do we each really understand whether we're team players or not? What will you choose?

Have you ever heard the expression, to have the rug pulled out from under you? Life does that to us all and sometimes you can do it to others without realising.

Music can connect us to the emotions of others and ourselves yet so many of us won't give all it has to offer a chance. We explore how it help and why it's amazing.

Effort put into a team effort can steer the end result. If it’s good, that’s great! But what if it’s not?

Meetings can be valuable, but they can also be a huge waste of time. What kind of meetings will you hold?

There never seems to be enough time to get through everything that needs to be done. Or is there actually enough time and you're just looking at it wrong?

Getting perspective is one of those ideas that takes something quite complicated and condenses it into a singular expression. Let's unpack that and get some perspective on getting perspective.

What is downtime really? And just as importantly how about downspace?

Constraints foster creativity apparently. Let's explore how if that's actually true and if the concept can help us.

Is it possible to create something perfect with an unchallengeable criteria, or are you just wasting your time?

How people justify the idea that anything you can do, I can do better is questionable at best.

Are all people, events or places constructively inspirational or are they distractionally inspirational, and how we can tell which to explore.

If someone says that they're about to be honest with you, beyond its overuse as an expression, does that actually mean they're being honest?

When you're trying to get something done, John's Hierarchy of Focus is how I shut out the noise and get things done.

When asked at a self improvement course what Authority meant, the answer they got wasn't what they bargained for.

Winning or losing are concepts taken from games. When you think you've won or lost an opportunity, is it really winning or losing?

Advancement in an organisation isn't a straight-forward thing and there's no one easy answer, but if you want to give yourself the best chance, I have some suggestions.

Teachers and teaching is an undervalued skill set and I try to correct a somewhat dismissive mangled old adage.