Rhonda Askeland: Talent Builder, Facilitator, Coach

Push aside those thoughts that you can’t do something or that you’ll fail. Our success is built one step at a time and sometimes those steps are slips. Keep moving forward.

Be curious. Be brave. Make each day better than the day before.

When toxic behavior is tolerated, it erodes engagement, collaboration, and performance in an organization. Leaders have the responsibility to hold people accountable and take action when bad behavior shows up.

As Ken Blanchard said, "Culture eats strategy for breakfast." Strong leaders take care of culture with their everyday actions.

Task switching is sabotaging our success. On average we are switching tasks every 10 min. These undermine our thinking. "A study found about 82 percent of all interrupted work is resumed on the same day. But here’s the bad news — it takes an average of 23 minutes and 15 seconds to get back to the task." Well, there goes your day! Make it a goal to minimize interruptions and switching from task to task. Maybe you'll get to the end of the day and feel a heightened sense of accomplishment.

Adam Grant:
A persistent enemy of excellence: fragmented attention.
On average, we check email 74x/day and switch tasks every 10min.
Computers are made for parallel processing. Humans are better at serial processing.

2021 resolution: focus on one task at a time.
https://lnkd.in/e7HdMqs

Worker, Interrupted: The Cost of Task Switching Fast Interview: When is interruption is helpful? Why can’t most of us stay on task for more than three minutes? Is the best way to achieve flow to just unplug? Gloria Mark, Professor in the Department of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine, has some answers.

Listening, empathy, encouragement, humility, support, care. The creation of a culture starts with leaders. What do you do to help others feel valued?

Pause, reflect on the year, be self-compassionate, live in the moment.

How about we skip all of the January punishment and regret this year.
How about we don’t promise to be better, thinner, more disciplined.
How about we look at our slightly larger selves and accept that this is the way, every year.
And it’s totally ok.

Maybe this year, we should not tell ourselves what we ‘should’ be doing and instead we should commend ourselves for being here at all...
We should congratulate ourselves for fighting so hard throughout this diabolical year, for facing our demons in the lockdown and for handling the waves and waves of bad news and change.
We have been through so much.

Give yourself a pat on the back and if you must resolve to do anything for the new year, resolve to enjoy every minute of your life whenever you can.
Live more in the moment.

This year has shown us that the world can change overnight. We can only rely on a few things: our friends, our family and our courage.

Who knows what next year will bring, so be kind to yourself little one.
You have done well.

Maybe this year we should just say ‘well done’ at the stroke of midnight.
Well done to us all.
Each and every one.

Donna Ashworth
Author of ‘To The Women’ and ‘History Will Remember When The World Stopped’
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08LRGWY74/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_fabc_OLr6FbZDY5SG4?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

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Know and live your WHY.

Sir Richard Branson: "If someone offers you an amazing opportunity and you're not sure you can do it, say yes - then learn how to do it later." It has worked for Sir Richard, why not you? What amazing opportunity awaits? Go for it!

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