- Linda Murray
Are your choices as empowered as you think?
DownloadRead moreCreating your best life, career, and personal opportunities comes down to making the right choice at the right time. So, how do you know they are the choices which give you the best possibilities in life?
Today we dig down into the concept of empowered choice and how you can control your decisions.
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Can you ‘have it all’?
Read moreGood, better, best…We’re raised to strive for the best – to BE the best – but is it all it’s cracked up to be? What’s wrong with being ‘good’? There’s nothing wrong with settling for “good” instead of “best.” Good may give you the balance you’re seeking. Find out why in my post.
- Linda Murray
Key Performance Indicators – Are yours on track?
Read moreIt’s good practice to develop KPIs for your career, but what about your personal life? How do you map and track your personal development? How do you weigh up your life choices when you’re facing change?
Without markers like KPIs, it’s easy to lose sight of what’s important to you, especially when you’re under pressure. It’s too easy for your life to fall out of balance. Your career and life KPIs need to work together if you want a real work-life balance.
What is a personal KPI and how do you set it? Here are some tips to help you.
- Linda Murray
Is work-life balance a myth?
Read moreIn the struggle to achieve work-life balance, we’ve learnt to divide our lives into little boxes. Time for work, time for sleep, time for family… It’s time to start making conscious decisions about what really matters to you and allocate your time accordingly. Work-life choice is much more flexible than work-life balance. Here’s why.
- Linda Murray
The 7 Key Characteristics to Become Mentally Strong
in Career, Coaching, Communication, Mental Health, Mindset, Peak Performance, Productivity, Strategy, Success / / 0 commentsRead moreOver the last couple of weeks, we’ve talked about resilience and mental toughness and discovered the difference between the two. We’ve also looked at how to lead a team which is suffering from stress and trauma. It’s clear that there’s a lot of responsibility on the leader’s shoulders to hold themselves together and get their teams through this pandemic era. If
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Imposter syndrome: It’s not about you.
Read moreIt’s hard to understand but many of the world’s most successful people feel like imposters. To us it seems perfectly clear that they are brilliant at what they do, yet they can’t see it in themselves. This is imposter syndrome. In this post we’ll look at ways to overcome the feeling and be more confident.
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How empathy and trust underpin leadership conversations.
Read moreA strong and successful team needs effective leadership to guide it forwards. To be effective, a leader needs to be more than someone with the technical or job-oriented skill set. Leaders need a strong connection based on compassion, trust, and empathy. Successful leadership is personal. There is a quote by Dr. Martin Luther King that is even more applicable today
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How to master the one essential rule of feedback.
Read moreBrene Brown tweeted “There is no mastery without feedback. But it’s hard…My mantra for receiving feedback: Be brave. Listen. You can take what’s helpful and leave the rest. My mantra for giving feedback: Clear is kind. Unclear is unkind.” Today I want to focus on the art of giving feedback because I think we’ve built so many rules around it
- Linda Murray
Career conversations: You don’t own your team.
Read moreOrganisations are slowly realising that employees don’t “belong” to them; or ultimately, even the organisation. They recognise the approach doesn’t create the most productive use of an employee’s skill set or experience or bring out their best. The truth is that team members are only on loan to you. Your role as leader is to springboard your team into their
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How to improve your resilience and bounce back from challenges
in Career, Coaching, Executive, Leadership, Mental Health, Peak Performance, Productivity, Small Business, Strategy, Success, Team / / 0 commentsRead moreThere has been a lot of talk, especially in recent times, about how leaders are managing change and becoming change agents, but very little attention has been paid to the need for resilience. In a world and workplace that is in a constant state of flux, our leaders are expected to be the one group in the organisation that is exempt
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3 strategies for building your executive presence to improve your career in leadership. By Linda Murray on October 18, 2021
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