The most shameful decision of my career

There have been a few (!) but the one I‘m referring to feels as raw and nauseating today as when it happened.

Three things I’ve learnt since then:

🧠 What we tolerate continues

💪🏻 We have more power than we think

😟 Most of the terrible things we assume will happen—don’t (and the ones we never think of, occasionally do, as the inspirational speaker Kelly Rixon reminds us.)

My latest keynote, Shining Bright or Burning Out? How to increase energy, happiness and productivity at work, covers all the latest research about productivity and burnout (which rose from 40% to a staggering 48% in the UK over just 18 months, according to data from the Future Forum Pulse), plus what I have learnt since that godawful meeting.

You’ll be relieved to know that the talk does not mention resilience, walking meetings or mindfulness apps.

Instead it focuses on:

⚡️Managing our own energy and that of others

✌️Overcoming conflict

🥊 vanquishing stressors

✨ and how finding ‘glimmers’—those tiny reminders of joy, peace and happiness as kindling for their phoenix—can help team members restore their energy and super-charge their productivity.

Next week

Building on this theme, Felix Koch will be back, this time in my garden (which has actual peonies growing in it) with his business partner Phil Burgess, to talk about the different kind of conversations we should be having at work.

Christine