by Zena Everett | Sep 23, 2024 | Uncategorized, Zena Everett's Blog
Last year Shopify cancelled all meetings with more than two people. Their workforce of over 11,600 employees was fully remote. 12,000 calendar events were deleted at one stroke. Wednesdays became totally meeting-free. In research shared...
by Zena Everett | Sep 10, 2024 | Uncategorized, Zena Everett's Blog
These characteristics were identified at a highly entertaining brainstorm. It’s not so entertaining if you are working for one of these people and relying on them for your career development. They see ‘people stuff’ as an annoying distraction. Enlighten...
by Zena Everett | Jul 23, 2024 | Zena Everett's Blog
Burnout is defined as a ‘state of vital exhaustion’. You feel like you have run a marathon in a wet fur coat. The demands of work, which sometimes seem unreasonable, are compounded by long sedentary days spent in front of screens. Here’s some...
by Zena Everett | Jul 3, 2024 | Zena Everett's Blog
It’s not easy to juggle your own priorities with managing other people. Are you an accidental manager: someone who has been given a team to manage without being shown how to do it? Are you squandering precious time checking that your...
by Zena Everett | Jun 5, 2024 | Zena Everett's Blog
I’ve been running two leadership programmes recently and the topic of mental health days has come up in both. Participants said that people in their teams routinely take days off when they felt stressed or overwhelmed. The pandemic normalised...
by Zena Everett | May 1, 2024 | Uncategorized, Zena Everett's Blog
DARVO (Deny, Attack and Reverse Victim and Offender) is a form of manipulation used by bullies to deflect responsibility onto the person they have abused. Deny – The person accused of the abusive behaviour denies it, throwing doubt on the other person’s account of the...
