First, what is Cognitive Load? Basically, it’s how much working memory you are using in your brain, a person can hole 5 to 9 items in working memory at any one time. High cognitive loads can lead to forgetting things, impaired decision making, and increased errors. Cognitive Load can be split into three types: Intrinsic … Continue reading Let’s talk about Cognitive Load.
I once got feedback from a member of my team that said I was often so calm that it didn’t seem like I understood the gravity of the situation. At the time I had recently taken over ownership of the Group Financial Consolidation system. The system was new, the team were new, the processes and … Continue reading Detatch
Just who the hell are you? It’s an interesting question. Up until a few months ago you were probably a bunch of people. You probably had different personas that you wore throughout the day, either deliberately or not. You would have had your professional persona, you partner persona, your parent persona, and you might have … Continue reading Who Are You?
Are you working flexibly? Are you making flexibility work for you? We are all suddenly working flexibly; working from home, working from our dining tables and our bedrooms. We are all suddenly having to make space through the day to stop being professionals and to instead become parents, teachers, carers, husbands, and wives. There are … Continue reading (In)Flexibility
It’s been a strange time. We have all had to make changes, really fast, faster than most of us would normally choose. The need to change came from nowhere; one week we were all in the office, going about our lives looking at what was happening elsewhere in the world, and by the end of … Continue reading What Won’t Change Back
Lets face it, in general, meetings suck. There’s been a lot written on the subject, the consensus being that meetings have become a liability; a huge time suck that pulls people away from doing any actual work and into rooms to talk about things that they don’t really care about. We’ve all been there, checking … Continue reading Meetings
Workflow is, essentially, how you get things done. It is how you move a task or a project from arriving in your world through to execution and, eventually, completion. You may have workflows for different tasks, end to end, or you may have generic workflows that you put all tasks though; for the most part … Continue reading Workflows
What’s it about? At the core of this book is the concept of Essentialism, which can be described as having a focus on only the essential elements of life. The concept is described succinctly and clearly as the disciplined removal of all non-essentials from your life in order to allow you to focus solely on … Continue reading Book Review: Essentialism – The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
So why do I believe you need to be fit to be successful and to operating at your point of highest contribution? What makes me think that it’s so important? Well, we’ve established that fitness is key to being your best self; you cant expect to be the best version of you if your not … Continue reading Fitness – Why does it matter?
For me, health and fitness are not things that run counter to, or even alongside, being productive; they are a key part of productivity. Mental and physical health are central to my ability to operate, they provide focus, they provide clarity, they provide a space to think and to depressurise; but the main thing that … Continue reading Fitness – What Does it Mean?
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