Be inspired
You don’t tend to act unless you’re inspired. And time is precious. So here are ideas and thoughts worth making a little time for.


Understanding and overcoming procrastination
Fuschia Sirois is a professor at Durham University’s Department of Psychology. She is particularly interested in how procrastination, perfectionism, loneliness and traits linked to negative mood adversely affect health, and the qualities that play a role in improving well-being.
Estimates suggest that anywhere between 15% and 25% of the adult population procrastinate regularly. So what this means is that about one in five members of your team are going to be prone to procrastination.
Fuschia Sirois, Professor at Durham University’s Department of Psychology
I'd like every manager spend proper time with every one of their direct reports every week. I think that in itself would make quite a lot of difference.
Ruth Kelly, Chair Thames Freeport and Water UK, previously Member of UK Parliament and Secretary of State for Education and Skills

Ruth Kelly, Chair of Thames Freeport and Water UK
In this episode, Ruth Kelly, Chair of Thames Freeport and Water UK, and ex-Secretary of State for Education and Skills, talks about:

Three secret reasons every manager can be a great coach to the team
Coaching works really well to boost well-being and performance. No question. A study of coaching of female leaders within GSK published in 2017 concluded as follows:
Imagine if managers developed their relationship-building skills, created more trust and psychological safety, and practised some coaching techniques...

Graham Cooke, Founder and Ex-CEO of Qubit
Entrepreneur and FTSE100 Non Executive Director, Graham Cooke has been developing internet-based products for the past 20 years. He joined Google in 2005 as one of the earliest European employees working on the Google Ad Platform and Google Analytics. After Google, he founded Qubit, a leading SaaS company in the e-commerce space, providing AI-personalised shopping recommendations to over one billion users per month across more than 300 leading brands. He sold Qubit to Coveo Solutions in 2021 and remains a strategic advisor at Coveo.
When you align the whole way through and you have a business or a product that your employees are very purpose driven in building, and using, you get this full alignment. It becomes this incredibly efficient slipstream.
Graham Cooke, Founder and Ex-CEO of Qubit

The benefits of being a connector within organisations
Martin Kilduff is a professor at UCL School of Management. In his research, he focusses on the importance of social network connections between people and the ways those connections help or hinder in their job performance, career, and their lives more generally.
Social network brokerage means connecting across people who are otherwise disconnected and looking for those ideas that are important in organisational life as well as in everyday life.
Martin Kilduff, Professor of Organisational Behavior at University College London