Hi there. I'm Graham Allcott. Every Sunday, I send out an upbeat idea for the week ahead, directly to your inbox.
Harden up with Kindness
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Hi Reader, Kind people at work succeed. Kindness creates longer and more trusting working relationships where both sides are able to eliminate some of the 'due diligence'. It's a shortcut. It creates leeway. It makes things happen. But lots of people get confused about kindness. Kindness is often seen as being weak, when to be truly kind in some of those difficult moments - to act with a commitment to both truth and grace - takes guts, strength and a great deal of skill. And people confuse being kind with being nice. There's a subtle but important difference. Kindness doesn't shy away from the truth, or from a commitment to help the other person to grow. You'll have heard someone being negatively described as "too nice", whereas "too kind" is only ever a compliment. So when we think about the need for more kindness at work, we need to reframe it for those at the back. It's not schmaltzy, soft and cute. It's authentic, successful and badass. Have a great week, Graham |
Rev Up for the Week
Productivity and Kindness at work
Hi there. I'm Graham Allcott. Every Sunday, I send out an upbeat idea for the week ahead, directly to your inbox.
Hi Reader, I was at a networking event this week (my first in many years!), when someone asked me what I did. I said I was the author of How to be a Productivity Ninja. "Wow", she said, "I've read your book!". We had a brief chat about what I was working on now, including the new book coming soon (October - and you'll hear about it here first!), and I mentioned how proud I am of what I'm about to share with the new book, and that when I occasionally read back snippets from 'Productivity...
Hi Reader, It’s often said that time is our most precious resource. I don’t think that’s true. I think attention is our most precious resource. Attention is a more limited resource than your time. Your productivity and indeed your mental wellbeing depends heavily on how you choose to ‘spend’ your attention. In an average day, you will have 3 different levels of attention: 1. Proactive attention: This is where you are fully focused, alert, in the zone, and ready to make your most important...
Hi Reader, Welcome to this week’s Rev Up for the Week, where each Sunday I deliver you an idea to help supercharge your work week. I moved house recently. It was my first house move in nearly a decade. I’d forgotten how much there is do, and how it disrupts little habits that you didn’t even know you had. For example, in the new house, I no longer eat bagels, I sit down and just relax more, I've stopped playing chess or looking at my iPad, I’ve taken some pleasure and even joy in tidying up...