With social media pretenses and endless talk of achievement, has ‘managing expectations’ gone out the window, asks Leadership & Performance Coach, Davina Greene. Dealing with people, one thing that really grates is the amount of disappointment I encounter. Disappointment in oneself, in friends, partners, siblings, parents, colleagues, life…the works. […]
Check that an ‘Oops, I did it again’ style of politeness isn’t doing you a disservice, suggests Leadership & Performance Coach, Davina Greene. What is Politeness? Very quickly, we decide who is polite and who is not – and it sticks. Defined by Politeness theorist (yes, they exist) William […]
Just because someone’s on the decision-making fence doesn’t mean the fence is comfortable, says Leadership & Performance Coach, Davina Greene. Will I or won’t I? Should I or shouldn’t I? Can’t I just get someone else to make the decision instead? Not questions that we want to hear a […]
Dig a little deeper into self-knowledge to build stronger foundations, says Leadership & Performance Coach, Davina Greene Self-awareness is a term we know well. It mainly involves being able to shout out a few self-describing keywords (“extrovert!”, “organizer!”, “chatterbox!”), so no problem, right? But how are your levels of […]
Is the world overloading us, or do we remove simplicity ourselves, wonders Leadership & Performance Coach, Davina Greene. Simplicity: if only it were simple. It seems a bit illogical, doesn’t it, that simplicity should be a difficult thing to achieve? But it can be. So, what on earth […]
As life gets faster, and more performance- and data-driven, let’s not lose grasp of all that’s human, natural and good, says Leadership & Performance Coach, Davina Greene. Humanity – despite its relevance to every single second of our lives – can seem a fast-disappearing concept. If, that is, you […]
So, we grow up, we mature, we acquire organizational skills…right? “Wrong!”, says Leadership & Performance Coach, Davina Greene Hands up if any or all of “Now, where did I save that file?”, “Eh…why did we make that product decision last year?”, or “Oh God, it’s audit time – are […]
Thought your communication was just your (carefully chosen) words? Think again, says Leadership & Performance Coach, Davina Greene. So many training courses in the world, so many coaches in the world, so many books, articles and blogs in the world…and yet, week in week out, I find myself listening […]
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