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I like separating work from my personal life, so working from home seemed impossible. Turns out I only needed to tear apart time, space and matter.

I do my best work when there are clear boundaries between the professional and the personal. The very thought of working from home used to send shivers down my spine because I’m a Segmentor. I thrive when I separate ‘work’ from ‘life’. Now, after almost two years working from home, I’m pleased to share that […]

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Self Improvement Workplace

My Failure Resume. What I learnt from facing my greatest professional failures.

A few weeks ago I signed up for Dr Amantha Imber’s My Year of Better project. Each week or two through 2020, we will try out a new strategy which claims to improve life in some way. Amantha is adding some science to the project by collecting feedback from us guinea pigs before and after each […]

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Workplace

Toxic behaviour at work ‘spreads like a virus’. How leaders can learn from public health to reduce toxicity.

Toxic behaviour at work “spreads like a virus” and “infects employees” so we try to “prevent outbreaks”. With numerous analogies between workplace toxicity and actual disease, I began wondering — Are there real parallels? If so, can leaders learn from the public health experience to deal with toxic behaviour? Read the full article on Medium

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5 Ways to Deal with Toxic Colleagues

At work we encounter a huge range of working styles. Fortunately, diverse ideas and approaches can lead to successful outcomes and colleagues can elevate us to be our best selves. At the other end of the spectrum, toxic colleagues damage the working environment and can make life generally miserable. I’ve had my fair share of toxic colleagues. […]

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“Should I tell the boss what they WANT to hear or what they NEED to hear?”

Sometimes it’s just easier to ‘keep the boss happy’ by only giving information they want to hear. I’ve certainly done it. By avoiding specific details, we both got what we wanted: minimal discussion and no conflict. I convinced myself that the consequences were insignificant. I always felt a nagging doubt though. Had I acted with […]