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18 Mar 2021Newsletter3 min read

Curated Insights | Friday 19th March 2021

Happy Friday,
This weeks insights include: • How a chef can help you build new habits 🍱 • 5 Check-In Questions for one-on-ones 👥 • Change is not an event. It's a skill. 🛠You can give one-click feedback at the end of this edition.
With Gratitude,TobyHow a chef can help you build new habits 🍱This week I read Good Habits, Bad Habits by Wendy Wood. Thie big takeaway was how shaping your context can help you form better habits. Professional chef, Robert Jörin shares what cooking can teach you abo

16 Mar 2021Book Summaries11 min read

Book Summary: Good Habits, Bad Habits by Wendy Wood

Context is critical to your habits. If the context remains stable—you keep living in the same place, you keep driving the same route to work, you keep sitting on your couch every evening—then you repeat past actions automatically. To build new habits, reduce the friction to do the behaviour.

11 Mar 2021Newsletter2 min read

Curated Insights | Friday 12th March 2021

Happy Friday,
This weeks insights include: • Your advice is not as good as you think 💬 • An Operating System for great one-on-ones 👥 • Atomic Habits Visualized 🖼You can give one-click feedback at the end of this edition.
With Gratitude,TobyYour advice is not as good as you think 💬I was once working with a leader on how to improve their presentation skills.It was an important pitch to a new client and pressure was high.With pitching experience, I was asked to help the leader prepare.We worked

4 Mar 2021Newsletter3 min read

Curated Insights | Friday 5th March 2021

Happy Friday,
This weeks insights include: • How to improve your one-on-ones 💬 • Leadership Insights from Clubhouse 👋 • A surprising truth about teaching 🧠Also this week you have the chance to give one-click feedback. You can find the options at the end of this edition.
With Gratitude,TobyHow effective are your One-On-Ones? 💬I asked this question on Twitter. 55% voted not effective. I thought it would be higher.Almost every person I coach or mentor shares that their one-on-ones are ineffecti

28 Feb 2021Leadership6 min read

Clubhouse Notes: Kat Cole and James Clear on Leadership

Learn in this clubhouse session leadership principles from Kat Cole and James Clear. You'll learn the importance of self-awareness, the power of mistakes and how to create safety.

25 Feb 2021Book Summaries11 min read

Book Summary: Think Again by Adam Grant | The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

Think Again by Adam Grant is an invitation to let go of knowledge and opinions that are no longer serving you well and to anchor your sense of self in flexibility rather than consistency. In this summary, you'll learn the 3 big ideas, 2 best quotes and top takeaways.

25 Feb 2021Newsletter3 min read

Curated Insights | Friday 26th February 2021

Happy Friday,February was a fun month of creation and learning. I read 5 books, published 5 articles, created 5 videos, attended 1 training course and opened an Instagram account.
This week's insights include: • Good Conflict, Bad Conflict 🤬 • How To Build A Listening Habit👂 • Power of Consistency 📈If you enjoy this edition, I'd love you to share it on Twitter.
With Gratitude,TobyGood Conflict, Bad Conflict 🤬This week I finished Adam Grant's new book Think Again. Adam shares that Good Thin

19 Feb 20212 min read

Curated Insights | Friday 19th February 2021

Happy Friday,This weeks insights include: • You're Not Listening 👂 • What is Coaching? A Practical Guide For Managers 💬 • Biased: Uncovering the hidden prejudices that shape our lives 🧠 If you enjoy this edition, please do share with your network.With Gratitude,TobyYou're Not Listening 👂Listening is hard. I often fall short of being a great listener. It's easy for the mind to drift or to assume you know what the other person is talking about. I also struggle to find people who can listen wel

17 Feb 2021Book Summaries8 min read

Book Summary: You’re Not Listening by Kate Murphy | Big Ideas and Best Quotes

Listening is hard. This book shares the big ideas and best quotes from You're Not Listening by Kate Murphy. You'll learn how to listen to opposing views and why curiosity is the key.

16 Feb 2021Leadership3 min read

5 Leadership Lessons From Eddie Jones | High-Performance Podcast

A few leadership insights from the excellent High-Performance Podcast. This episode with England Rugby Coach, Eddie Jones. Eddie always inspires me to be a better coach. I've written about his coaching approach previously: • Coaching Lessons From Elite Sport • The Four Fatal Fears of Your TeamI'm hopeful one day we'll meet to trade ideas 😃Coaches in business can learn so much from coaches of Elite Sport.Key Insights for Leaders in Business 💡The greatest teams or any organisation is the self-re

11 Feb 2021Newsletter2 min read

Curated Insights | Friday 12th February 2021

Happy Friday,This weeks insights include: • Are you solving the wrong problems? ⚠️ • Find your perfect coaching book 📚 • A self-care writing exercise ❤️Enjoy!Are you solving the wrong problems? ⚠️This week I read Upstream Thinking by Dan Heath.It explores how people commonly focus on solving the wrong problems. They react to problems after they happen.Instead, Dan suggests preventing problems upstream.What I enjoyed most about the book are the stories used throughout.A great example is a Dutch

9 Feb 2021Book Summaries11 min read

Book Summary: Upstream by Dan Heath | How to solve problems with Systems Thinking

The case studies and stories within this book are fantastic. They reveal concrete examples of how shifting upstream can have big results. For example, the story of how the dutch bicycle company. To reduce damage in transit delivered their bicycles in TV boxes. Amazing!