How do you manage an impossible workload? During my recent video coaching some common themes have been coming up. Today I’m looking at leaders struggling to manage their tasks, while also supporting their people. This balance is always difficult, and is being made harder by current social restrictions. Right now I think it’s appropriate for […]
I’ve recently been helping leaders with managing expectations of themselves and their employees around productivity and performance during lockdown and Work From Home. Some are getting frustrated trying to manage performance of remote employees, especially new starters whom they haven’t even met. And some employees are getting frustrated as the novelty of WFH wears off. […]
My wife recently observed that supermarket shelves looked like locusts had been through them. On the same day one of my executive coaching clients noted that the current crisis is bringing out the best and the worst in people. This reminded me of a management theory of one of my former colleagues at Macquarie Business […]
March 2020 How do you make an impossible choice? One technique is to use Path of Least Regret. As Governments around the world continue to make the impossible choice between the health of their economies and the lives of their citizens, I thought it might be helpful to explore one approach for making an “impossible” […]