Musings, thoughts, considerations…follow my journey from career break into full time mum
It’s been a while
… Ages and Ages since I’ve done a blog post! I’ve been taking time to enjoy my family, yes, just us, and identify more with my role as a mother, a parent and a wife. I’ve been teaching myself to take it easy and not to try to plan all detail to the nth degree.…
Career Break
How do you balance work and home life? If you think about work life balance in a short time frame, daily/ weekly or even monthly, it never works out. If you consider it over a longer term, at various parts of your career, you can add the balance where you need to. The most important…
Sacrificing my time
What sacrifices have you made in life? I love developing myself. I put myself out there to get the learning experiences that I would otherwise have dreamed of. I have amazing stories of how I got prestigious internships, and how I continued to succeed in whatever I did. I’m sure you have some amazing stories…
Octopus
Do you feel like small children have 8 hands by the speed they grab everything they shouldn’t? I didn’t realise this until I had my youngest. It reminds me of being in a workplace where so many parts if a value chain are working on something, and if isn’t cohesive, then it feels chaotic and…
Remembering your why
Recently, we took a pause on all of our hobbies / extra-curricula activities. It gave us more time to spend together and the freedom of unstructured play. During that time, I noticed that I was more relaxed and could see the benefits of both time in hobbies and out on our development. However, during the…
Celebrating Achievements
Leaders need to celebrate achievements. This doesn’t come naturally to most of us. We all see the never ending piles of work that we need to do. I’m using negative terminology here. To frame it positively; we all want to crunch through our work to succeed on objectives. Leaders see more objectives than their team.…
Pop goes the weasel
With leadership, we always advise to look at your individual team members and their own thoughts and perspectives. Despite all this, we have more similarities than differences. We are all drawn to natural light no matter how bright everything is around us. Even small children have this natural instinct. We have a natural magnetism to…
Sweet and Bitter
The good times will just be normal if they happen all the time. The same with the bad times. A leader is someone who understands that they can’t make their team happy all of the time, neither can they deliver on time to spec all of the time too, neither can you celebrate at every…
Cool mornings
With three children, rarely is it a quiet morning getting ready. They all have differing needs and wants. Some are morning people and others are not. It’s the same as leading a team. The larger your team gets, the more you need to have consideration for. The main difference is having children means you know…
Compare and Contrast
As much as we say we don’t, we are business leaders and we spend time ranking and comparing our team members to see who comes out at the top. This is something that really contradicts what we say we do- appreciate diversity in all of its forms. Comparing will exclude diversity, but let’s consider whether…
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