Barry Winbolt's Blog
Vulnerability
21/10/2011 · Leave a commentIn this video Dr Brené Brown explains that vulnerability is what gives our lives meaning and purpose. But when we cut ourselves off from the risky business of being vulnerable, we also exclude joy, love and fulfilment. Since these are also the aspects that give us the reserves we need to face adversity, protecting ourselves from feeling vulnerable also makes us less resilient.
For success, embrace failure
12/10/2011 · Leave a commentBeing comfortable with setback, the possibility of rejection and even failure may be an advantage and a critical factor in achievement and success. Once we embrace failure as a part of the path to success we free ourselves from its drag and can invest more fully in creativity.
Those who can, do…
5/10/2011 · Leave a commentWhat happens when you decide to take time out and plan to change a life? This is the first instalment of my new journey. While I’m not sure exactly how it’ll turn out, I do know it’s taking me somewhere I want to go. Watch this space!
Time management, or delusion?
3/10/2011 · Leave a commentGurus of productivity and performance would have us believe there is such thing as time management, but I find that most people are relieved when I announce that time can’t be managed. We all know this really and while I am happy to use the term ‘time management’ as a general concept when talking about personal development and training, we should not use it to delude ourselves.
The positive power of procrastination
1/10/2011 · Leave a commentProcrastination is often bandied about as implied criticism. I am calling for a new deal for delay, or a proposition for postponing things. Ed Milliband recently spoke about Predators and Producers, those who do nothing and ‘take’ vs those who do something and ‘give’. To stay with the rhetoric of politics, I’m suggesting a third way, Procratination may be Nature’s way of saying ‘not yet’.
Resilience: Key Elements
19/05/2011 · Leave a commentWhat contributes to personal resilience? I have recently been writing a new guide to accompany training on the topic. The key elements are: Optimism; Freedom from stress and anxiety; Individual accountability; Openness and flexibility, and Problem orientation.
Conflict in the workplace
24/03/2011 · Leave a commentConflict is obviously costly in financial terms, but more important is the cost to morale, working relationships and personal well-being. Conflict causes misery and burns up energy that would otherwise used productively for work. But it doesn’t have to be like this. If you are involved in a dispute at work (or elsewhere) here are some things you can do to start to resolve it.
Work-life happiness
17/03/2011 · Leave a commentThere’s life and there’s the job, right? Wrong. Instead of treating work and home as disjointed parts of the same existence, Anna Tims suggests a change in perception rather than a change in circumstances, and so re-infuse our lives with greater purpose and fulfilment. Work is not necessarily the enemy if it is managed correctly, and it can all be achieved without you having to trek through rain forests, climb a mountain or wear sackcloth.
Tweet for Spring
12/03/2011 · Leave a commentSpring is here and the birds have started up, so this seems the right time for me to begin tweeting. I experimented with Twitter some time back and now I’m starting to use it. Proper business people would probably call this delay an ‘extended evaluation period’, but the truth is that I just couldn’t make [...]
How to bounce back
20/01/2011 · Leave a commentDespite the gloom and the pressures individuals can do something for themselves. Survival at work – or anywhere else for that matter – relies on personal attributes like the ability to self-manage and to find a sense of purpose out of apparent chaos and disorder.