This is the third book in my countdown of my top 5 books around leadership, personal development, and self discovery. Find out what was first and second in my list. — What's the book about? Book 1 - "Are you over-extended, over-distracted, and overwhelmed? Do you work at a breakneck pace all day, only to [...]
Followers of this blog will know that I love a good tool or two! Whether it's the awesome Unstuck & Teamworks by the amazing SYPartners or the brilliant Evernote, or The Knowledge by the very insightful & inspirational Carl Taylor or The Action Method from the turning-ideas-into-action guru Scott Belsky. Well, over the past few weeks I've been working with another amazing [...]
I've wrote quite a lot in this blog about how I used the SYPartners tools to find my superpower - and then how I started to live, breathe and be my superpower. A superpower is: A natural talent someone brings to the team when it's most in need of help I have been using the [...]
As the annual 99U Conference (by Behance) kicks off - it seems like the perfect timing to start putting the lessons that I am learning from Behance founder Scott Belsky's magical book - Making Ideas Happen - into action! In the book - which I am only a third through - Scott sets out what he has learnt through years [...]
This week my blog has covered superpowers, leadership, team, purpose and the first part of my 10 lessons of leadership.Heres a quick review: There's a lot about SYPartners in here - a post about why SYPartners have appeared so heavily in my blogs so far to share their inspiration approach and to give feedback to the [...]
After finally understanding, identifying and having my superpower confirmed through the brilliant Teamworks strengths tool, I then used the action focused approach of the tool to create a new ritual for making sure I keep my superpower topped up. I tried to design my ritual so that it was simple, doable and built on my [...]
In my blog I have written quite a bit about how I have been trying to transform my team into a 'great team'. But one of the questions I keep asking myself is:what is a team?At its most basic, a team is a group of individuals being placed together in an organisation to deliver a [...]
As part of my inspiration building research into all things SYPartners, one of the videos I found really did connect with me. The video by the SYPartners chairman and founder, Keith Yamashita, was 20 minutes of pure gold dust. In the video - The 3 Habits of Great Creative Teams - shot at the annual 99u [...]
Since I created my new 'digital home' towards the end of 2014, I've spent a lot - and I mean a lot - of time wondering what my first blog post should be about. So much so that I got stuck worrying more about making sure that it was a perfect first post, rather than thinking about [...]
