Videos

In the first few months of lockdown, I was inspired to make a series of videos. I did one a day for several weeks!

Hope they’re still useful…

Awareness for Leaders

Awareness is a key ingredient in handling complexity and mess in a wise and timely way. Here’s the first of the Awareness for Leaders videos.

How to deal with unpredictable days
(Awareness for Leaders video 1)

Here's a bit of advice about something that's really helped me when either (a) I've been feeling a lot of anxiety and/or (b) things have been unpredictable.

Let me know how you get on with it.

Coaching Yourself

There is lots you can do to find a different perspective on a situation you’re in. Here’s some videos on different tools you can use.

Get great advice from Future You (
Coach Yourself video 1)

Getting out of the present moment can help you to see wiser next steps for a situation you’re in. Here’s a technique for zipping into the future and getting your future self to give you some clarity.

Get On Top Of Things

It’s natural to feel out of control with the amount of stuff on your plate to do. Most ‘productivity’ systems are made for a specific type of brain, and I bet it’s not yours. Here’s five videos on how to create your own system that works for you - including me sharing the scrappy systems I’m using right now.

Your first step to getting on top of things
(Get On Top of Things video 1)

It’s perfectly natural to feel overwhelmed with everything there is to do. After over a decade of teaching and working with people on ‘productivity’, this is the first practical step I’d recommend to gaining some peace of mind in the face of The List That Lives In Your Mind.

Be Less Overwhelmed

Overwhelm is a pretty constant factor of modern life. Laura Van Dernoot Lipsky is a trauma specialist who wrote a great book called The Age of Overwhelm. These videos review her advice about how to metabolise the overwhelm we experience - both how to process what we’ve taken on and build up more stamina to be in this for the long haul.

Better Meetings

Whether you’re meeting in-person or online, meetings are generally pretty bad. Dominated by a few people, timings out of control, and unclear processes. Ugh.

There are ways of immediately making them better. Here’s five things you can implement pretty easily to make your meetings more inclusive, more productive and more human.

Courageous Conversations

In this series, we explore concepts and practices that help when you have to have a big or important conversation.