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Radical Candour
‘Care personally whilst challenging directly’ – surely this is a mantra that everyone should be following in both personal and work guises. No beating around the bush and feeling frustrated when people “don’t really get it,” but always done from a position of love. Kim Scott has taken this idea and called it ‘Radical Cando[u]r’ and turned it into a movement (as well as a best selling book and podcast). The book is one that I recommend to anyone who is learning to manage people or situations and is one I return to frequently. It gives tangible examples of how (not) to give feedback in a way that sticks with…
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Removing the grain of sand in the shoe
It can be tempting to ignore the small niggles and think that the time spent fixing them just isn’t worth it. But we all know that even a grain of sand in your shoe causes problems on a long walk. And it is the same with small things in an office or out of date processes in a growing company. For me, one of the best tools I have implemented is called Timetastic – a relatively basic holiday booking tool. I was doing some freelance work (for a company that I now work for) and was asked if I could improve how holidays were booked and recorded. This was a…
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Comfort, Courage & Boredom Zones
Listening to a podcast from Squiggly Careers, about comfort and courage zones, I realised that there is another zone that gets forgotten – the ‘boredom zone.’ This to me is a danger zone that needs to be acknowledged and addressed. How much time people should spend in both their comfort and courage zones is something that is discussed in numerous books/ articles/ podcasts but I feel that there is a third zone that isn’t nearly as productive as the other two – the ‘boredom zone.’ This is when you are doing things on autopilot that aren’t contributing to yours (or others) growth or happiness. Comfort zone – doing things you…
