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There’s something about a long weekend that lays bare the secrets about how we really lead. How we behave in the small, almost unnoticeable choices we make when work pauses and I can see that there are a few patterns that emerge when a long weekend rolls around.
Most leaders tend to fall into 3 types....

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#LeadershipBehaviours #WorkplaceCulture #LeadByExample

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So it’s happened, you’ve got the promotion you were looking for or perhaps the company restructured and your role has changed and you’ve taken on a leadership position or moved to a different level of leadership, and somewhere in the blur of new responsibilities, different expectations, and unfamiliar territory, things feel very different.

The ‘who you are at work’ has changed and the style and strategies you may have always relied on, might now feel clunky and you start to doubt yourself, wonder if you’re really ready for this role.

Here's a 3 stage framework to help you navigate this shift.

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Imagine the scene.

A member of your team put themselves forward for an internal role.

And now you know the answer is no.

How you handle the next few hours, and the next few weeks, will say something significant about who you are as a leader.

When you show up for someone’s disappointment with honesty and care, you’re not just managing a situation. You’re making a statement about what kind of team this is and about what kind of leader you are.

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Do you find yourself working long hours, even when no one has explicitly asked you to? Struggling to find time for yourself? Feeling like a lot is expected of you… because it usually is?

If so, you’re not alone.

Life is busy. Work is busy. And for many capable, conscientious people, it’s frighteningly easy to slip into a rhythm where work slowly expands to fill every available space. The never-ending to-do list. Meetings that could (and should) have been an email. Work emergencies. Family emergencies. Other people’s priorities quietly becoming your own.

Managing boundaries at work is challenging, but it’s also essential if we want any kind of work/life harmony and if we want our work to remain meaningful rather than all-consuming.

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'Am I doing what I'm really meant to do?

Most of us have asked ourselves this question at some point in our career and it's a question that comes up frequently in coaching sessions with clients, who feel like something isn’t quite right. Their career isn’t delivering the life, the feeling, the meaning they had hoped for, so let's look at a framework that can help.

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Being told “you’re not strategic enough” can feel like feedback without substance.

You might be working hard.
Delivering results.
Keeping things moving.

So when you’re given this feedback, it can feel like:

“Well, what exactly do you want me to do differently?”

This kind of feedback statement, is really lazy if it comes with no direction on what ‘good’ looks like, but if we don’t have a clear picture of ‘good’ how do we know how to fix it?

Here's how.

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Every January, I try to do one thing that nudges me gently out of my comfort zone. It’s not a “new year, new me” reset. More often, it’s the thing I’ve been thinking about for a while, the idea that keeps resurfacing, the step I’ve been quietly circling, the change that feels uncomfortable but persistent.

What I am re-learning is that the starting something new isn't the hard part, the sticking with it even when it feels hard is. Because it affects how we see ourselves when we suddenly become a beginner again. But, no surprise, it's consistency rather than bravery that is key

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In many organisations, there are people frantically trying to get everything finished before the festive break, burning themselves out for the price of a (very temporarily) empty inbox, so we end up collapsing into the break, exhausted.

So, how do you close down the year without burning yourself out and restart the new year, without resentment?

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