The Burnout Queens Wisdom: Desire an easier life?…focus on what’s going right not wrong…look for your strengths not weaknesses…embrace the ease not the struggle.
Highly Sensitive Woman
The experience of living as a highly sensitive woman in a noisy, busy and unrelenting world
The dreaded company retreat
Just have to share this with you. We hear about this dreaded event all the time from our VIP clients.
BBC business news has a great, bold and controversial article out today: Why corporate team-building events can be terrible. (love the title already)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-45260246
There is nothing worse than opening up your email to an invitation to attend one of these company weekends. It leaves many of our clients with that ‘pit-in-the-stomach’ feeling.
You know you can’t get out of it. You know it will be a waste of time. And this is the important bit…you believe it will be a hornet’s nest of problems.
Have a read why. We are sure many of you will relate 100%.
These events require a solid and deep understanding of group dynamics, communication skills, trust-building, and a high level of crowd control. These skills are reserved for the professionals who know the psychology behind all of these seemingly innocent and fun weekends.
The article makes a great point at the end…good managers year-round should be able to avoid the necessity of having one of these retreats in the first place.
Our best advise to clients: Beware the facilitator, and if you have to attend one of these, put your game face on, keep your guard up, follow the instructions and get out of there at your earliest convenience. You are not weak, you aren’t the problem, and you should never be the scapegoat for the wrong facilitator.
And our next executive coaching session will be devoted to ‘the debrief’ with someone you already trust.
Hello from Lewes & London! 4 August 2018
“it’s good to touch, the green, green grass of home”
Welcome to Hello’s Garden special.
Gardens don’t always look like proper gardens at all. They are little surprises waiting to be noticed in the most unexpected ways (close to one of The Burnout Queens’ motto,“expect the unexpected”). This issue takes a look at what little gardens we’ve found (or made ourselves) and ends with the grandeur of one of London’s biggest gardens.
The Burnout Queens love a little hidden tea garden to have tea in like this one in Lewes, or the welcoming entrance at a design shop in Alfriston.
Of course there are the big gardens we’ve visited at Hever Castle and Arundel Castle (we can always dream darling)
And there are pub gardens, ‘little creatures in the garden’ and our own indoor kitchen garden…
But the best garden for us is our back ‘office’ garden full of bees, butterflies and work companions to keep the creativity buzzing.
But the best of all gardens to enjoy regardless of where you live, has to be the historic gardens in south London, The Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew. (6 minutes of dazzling bliss). No walking required, just click and be transported!
Until next issue, keep calm, cool and collected.
Love,
Life will unfold!
The Burnout Queens Wisdom: Life sometimes brings thunderstorms
But, it doesn’t have to be hard or be a struggle
You don’t have to push
Put one foot in front of the other…
Life will unfold!
Change
The Burnout Queens Wisdom: Change…no wonder you get wobbly knees when so much of ‘who you are in the world’ is up for grabs.