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• Taking the dread out of a 1:1.
• A framework for difficult conversations.
• 53 great questions to help you navigate difficult conversations.
• Four tips for asking better questions.
• What Humpty Dumpty can teach us about storytelling.
• The magic blue table.
• No one is listening to your icebreaker.

Every noodle

• Deliberate and intentional practice
• Leadership quests
• Rules worth following
• Feeling heard
• Turnover is okay
• What conditions are you creating?
• A question for leaders to ponder
• Dadding and leadership
• A question to help you navigate perfectionism
• How are we handling?
• Instead of ‘difficult’ conversations
• The greatest aerial skier of all time
• My new favourite acronym for all leaders
• An underrated question for problem-solving
• What Humpty Dumpty can teach us about storytelling
• Two questions to ask your team
• My new favourite leadership metaphor from Barack Obama
• A question to shift your perspective
• O’s and C’s
• Do you compete or collaborate?
• 53 great questions to help you navigate difficult conversations
• What design thinking can teach us about communicating effectively
• A framework for difficult conversations
• A strategy for growing your business/career
• Action creates information
• Creativity and pancakes
• My biggest aha of 2022
• Why goal setting is more important than goal achieving
• The questions I’m asking myself for 2023
• The disconnection problem
• Unreasonable hospitality
• Recent reads and listens – October edition
• Blackberries and experiments
• A question I’m noodling on
• Recent reads and listens – September edition
• 5 steps to getting unstuck
• I can’t touch my toes…
• Some questions on opinions
• Recent reads and listens – August edition
• Leading with humility
• Three questions on rushing
• A story most leaders tell themselves
• A question on rules
• Recent reads and listens – July edition
• Mistakes vs failures
• A question to zoom in on
• Yet another question for your next meeting
• Tennis practice
• A question to help with prioritising
• What diet coke and red wine can teach us about mistakes
• Two questions on celebrating the wins
• Shorts in a job interview
• A question on how we manage ourselves
• Same same, but different
• Showing up is a skill
• A question to enable problem-solving
• Recent reads and listens – May edition
• Charts, boots and opinions that don’t matter
• More wisdom from improv
• Six questions from Atomic Habits
• A scary question about your schedule
• What humility sounds like
• A question to help you help yourself
• Recent reads and listens – April edition
• A question of self-reflection
• Information that creates stories
• A question for any upcoming meeting/project
• Four tips for asking better questions
• An alternative question to ‘what’s the best practice’?
• Why fear explains weird behaviour (like arguing about broccoli)
• A question I can’t get out of my head
• Recent reads and listens – March edition
• Things that don’t scale
• A question on recognising growth
• The real skills of leadership
• A question for your imposter
• On dealing with critics
• A question to make you groan
• Recent reads and listens – February edition
• A question when giving feedback
• Get better together
• A question on how you’re spending your time
• A lesson on writing
• A question for that goal of yours
• Journal prompts worth trying
• A question on questions
• Recent reads and listens – January edition
• A question for your next project or job
• A reminder
• Two questions for the great resignation/reshuffle/reevaluation
• The pain of not paying attention
• Mood follows action
• A question for your workday in 2022
• Four simple questions for an awesome 2022
• Recent reads and listens – December edition
• A question to make you world class
• What might happen if…
• A question to help you level up
• Who’s on your team?
• Two questions for working in a hybrid world
• Recent reads and listens – November edition
• A question on measuring success
• The trap of anticipation
• A question to help you get unstuck
• A collection of stories I told myself on Thursday
• Two easy (and confronting) ways to reveal what you value
• Attitude is a skill
• Two questions for getting out of your own way
• Recent reads (and listens) – October edition
• A question for your overworked self
• A question for your to-do list
• 16 reasons making an arbitrary numbered list is the best way to get unstuck and spark possibility
• A question for navigating the hard part
• Postponing is rarely a good strategy
• A question to spark progress
• Recent reads (and listens) – September edition
• A question to help understand what makes someone tick
• Birds and change
• A question on how you spend your time
• A question on your habits
• Disproportionate returns
• A question for your next meeting
• Recent reads (and listens) – August edition
• Basketball and the stories we tell ourselves
• A question for self-starters
• The truth about great teachers
• A question to start your day
• Worldviews and chocolate frogs
• A (painful) question for picking your next project
• Humility is a superpower
• A question for your next decision
• Recent reads (and listens) – July edition
• A question for those managing other humans
• Find and Replace
• The myth of the right way
• A question for when you lock yourself out of your house
• A question for leadership teams
• Recent reads (and listens) – June edition
• A question that changed the trajectory of my life
• Irrationality
• A question when creating your next slide deck
• So you read lots of books…
• Customers, clients, colleagues, and collaborators
• A question for leading a hybrid team
• How did you get so good at ____?
• A question when asking for feedback
• Recent reads (and listens) – May edition
• A question for your next Zoom/Teams meeting
• Start with who
• A question on showing up
• A skill for understanding
• A question that haunts me
• Relax your face
• A question for your colleagues
• Recent reads (and listens) – April edition
• A question for your next meeting
• The problem with back to back
• A question for holding patterns
• Leading the witness
• A question for when you feel stuck
• The hybrid workplace
• A question I’m noodling on
• Recent reads (and listens) – March edition
• In a flurry
• Taking the dread out of a 1:1
• Did you know?
• Collaboration is a two-way conversation
• When in doubt, look for the fear
• Recent reads – February edition
• Context and repetition
• An oversimplified guide to learning a new skill
• A most memorable sticky note
• What Sonder feels like
• Critics and gravity
• Leadership is a choice
• 2,000 year old wisdom
• Rabbit holes
• New people
• A common and troublesome question
• Recent reads – January edition
• A question about questions
• 21 Questions for 2021
• A simple process for end of year
• My dad, the wise guru
• Passion isn’t innate
• Babies and changemaking
• 9 lessons from 100 days of ocean swims
• A better title for my last post
• Momentum is underrated
• Something to optimise for
• Three rules for asking great coaching questions
• The punchline of self-development books
• When is the last time you…
• A reminder on imposter syndrome
• An underrated technology
• Context and worldviews
• A useful lens for making decisions
• Making it up as we go
• The meeting default worth challenging
• Out loud
• Striving
• What if…
• Your next meeting
• Pour over coffee
• The magic blue table
• Where’s the tension?
• Noticing and improving
• An acronym for practicing empathy
• Beyond either/or
• A Rabbi walks into a bar*
• Indoor plants and humans
• Hats and priorities
• The question fork
• Showing up
• Two times
• Your team
• The choice to be generous
• Note to self
• Another lesson from maths class
• Noodling like a chef
• More lessons from improv
• When giving feedback
• When receiving feedback (and yes, we will receive it)
• Places empathy hides
• Balance takes time
• Empathy is a choice
• An open mind
• Everything costs something
• My mum, the change agent
• Permission to lead
• What we can learn from maths teachers
• Sharing our work
• Can you write something using only questions?
• A reminder for leaders
• Overheard on a Zoom call
• The mistake and opportunity of remote work (beyond doing your laundry)
• Postures and prompts
• The most underrated way to learn
• The hyphenated word worthy of a noodle
• A question for the chaos
• Questions to cultivate empathy
• What empathy sounds like
• Origin stories and imposters
• Working for free
• The give without the take
• Questions to noodle on ahead of 2020
• Surrounds matter
• The thing about blindspots
• Before starting
• An alternative to othering ourselves
• Two ways to lead
• Assume one thing
• Decisions and outcomes
• The perils of missing information
• A story of abundance
• Thrashing on thrashes
• Noodling on noodles
• The person that’s annoying you…
• Hide and seek
• Instead of waiting…
• When your oven explodes…
• Stop signs, permits and patterns
• Nine more reframes to noodle on
• Sparking joy (without the tidying up)
• The thing about growing pains
• An alternative to “hustle and grind”
• Popularity is overrated
• Why we should tell more stories
• The truth about inspiration…
• A replacement for the word “but”
• We can learn a lot from improv
• The reason you haven’t made that decision
• 8 reasons why a great leader is like a trampoline
• If fear were an onion
• An excuse that doesn’t serve you
• Five things the X-Men can teach us about culture
• A reframe worth considering
• An alternative to interrupting someone
• Permission to change your mind
• All the feels
• On being extraordinary
• A reminder that it’s okay to say these three words…
• What to do with space
• One question you can’t ask enough
• One question there’s always an answer to
• What sweet potato can teach us about decisions
• Mad scientists aren’t mad
• Effective change making…
• Walking flaws
• Deliberate reflection
• A note for perfectionists
• An equation to rival Pythagoras
• 20 more noodles from 20 more books
• 20 noodles from 20 books
• A posture for the holidays
• A gentle nudge
• The thing about sprinting
• Just like me
• A constraint or an opportunity?
• One simple rule for giving feedback
• When in doubt…
• The magic of 1%
• Everything is a story
• Default response part 2
• Default response
• The weirdest advice you’ve ever received
• What do you fear?
• There’s no such thing as being stuck
• Don’t steal the revelation
• No one is listening to your icebreaker
• Hiding behind comparisons
• Why is unencumbered thinking limited to just 5min a day?
• What if imposter syndrome is a good thing?
• The dreaded ‘G’ word
• The story I tell myself
• Two voices and some noodles
• The power of 10,000 readers… Even when you don’t have them
• There’s no time for a witty title
• Ogres, onions and Dilbert comics
• The instruction manual
• One question to rule them all
• Why video conferencing is more powerful than a face to face meeting
• 7 things I learned from Tribe of Mentors
• Stories
• 15 more insights from 15 more books
• 15 insights from 15 books
• Management vs leadership
• A universal and unspoken truth
• There are no original ideas
• The right time
• 25(ish) questions that might change your life
• Control the controllables
• Why being busy doesn’t make you important
• We are all irrational
• You’ll never regret a swim
• So, what qualification did you get?
• The most conflicting book you’ll ever listen to
• You’ve never had a kip?
• Put down your kale smoothie and listen up
• Why Ace Ventura was ahead of his time