Articles to help you thrive as a quietly ambitious leaders 

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Understanding whether we have a tendency to be busy just to be busy, rather than examining how it actually affects our productivity, can be a challenge. In this blog I explore the potential negative effects on Quiet Leaders and suggest three things you can try to challenge your ‘busy’ habit. As we step out of […]

Three tips to challenge your ‘busy’ habit – if you’re not a bee that is!

Thought patterns

Who loves ‘constructive feedback’? Giving or receiving? Anyone? Some people do, I’ve met one, she’s amazing and I love her open, grounded and welcoming attitude to constructive feedback – ‘’give me something to work with’’. Brilliant. For Quiet Leaders however, either way can be challenging. Research shows that our reaction to the prospect of feedback […]

Feedback anyone?

People pleasing

Have you ever noticed that some tasks on some days take hours – reviewing or writing a paper, a proposal, a presentation? And they’re still not ace, you’re not happy, you’ll have to come back to it to finish. So frustrating.  Another day, it takes 30 minutes. You pour your creativity, inspiration and energy into […]

3 ladybird steps for Quiet Leader energy conservation

Productivity