Meetings Don’t Have to be Boring!

Sitting on a hard, plastic chair in the overly warm/chilled conference room, your eyes slowly drying up as you try to focus on the presentation in front of you, your brain drifting into wistful thoughts of the upcoming weekend…we’ve all been there. Hell hath no fury like the tedium of a pointless meeting. Meetings have a bad reputation as being …

Team Building

Diversity is a risk

I’ve seen this happen time and time again.  Managers and business owners who hire people like them, because naturally, we like, trust and respect people who are like us.  It’s familiar, safe, and predictable. I read this article on Women’s Agenda this morning – “Why focussing on the team could lead to greater diversity” *, and it got me thinking …

What’s the difference between an excuse and an explanation?

Coach Mi Definition: Explanation – A reason for why something happened.  A process to help the listener understand. Excuse – An attempt at an explanation, but with the aim of absolving self or others from responsibility. Do you offer explanations or excuses?  To the listener, an excuse usually has a hollowness to it, a lack of believability.  So if you’re not …

Have you worked with a workplace psychopath?

So, what is a “workplace psychopath”?  Believe it or not, this is not merely a derogatory term used to describe someone you don’t like at work.  It is in fact a  label used to describe a destructive personality type that occurs in the workplace.  Common characteristics include manipulation and victimisation, and not surprisingly, not much good comes from having one in …

MBTI at work

Type Talk at Work

Have you ever wondered why some people have work habits that completely annoy you?  Are you an organised person who can’t understand how anyone could wait until the last minute to complete a project?  Do you find that you love having abstract, conceptual discussions which other people don’t seem to understand?  Or, are you the reverse? This book explains how …