In the moment, what is accessible to you?  

I feel that over this past year, when we pause and reflect on how we met the challenges in front of us there’s a diversity of reactions. Sometimes we stepped up. Sometimes we retreated. Sometimes we were silent and sometimes we spoke up and asked for help.

There was also the virtue signaling of work from home. Be more productive, write a book in your spare time, get fit, raise your family, care for a loved one, and all the while perhaps just hanging on. In times of change we often react from a place of auto-pilot. Our learned capability if you will. After all, you have gotten here and in doing so have been successful.

Pausing to consider what is the best approach in a new territory or context isn’t always our first response. Often we put down our heads, narrow our focus, block out the noise and execute the tasks, usually with a rate of energy that’s not exactly sustainable. It can only last so long before the side effects of such a response show up in other areas of work and life.

Feelings of guilt for not being or doing more in challenging times are not of use. It’s ok. We respond to what’s in front of us with whatever is accessible to ourselves. And that can really vary as I am sure we have all experienced. But just because you responded one way doesn’t mean that in the future you can’t respond in another.

In life and work, there are moments where we drive forward and others where we hang on. Obviously we aspire for more moments of the former.

The pause, the consideration and the reflection before acting in the face of change can be a difference maker. Welcome to Empowered, our new newsletter for leaders driving change.

Welcome to Empowered, our new newsletter for leaders driving change.

Leveraging Brand DNA

Striking the balance between thinking and doing in the midst of a pandemic is no easy task. Head of Brand and Creative Director Oskar Elfner outlines the timing and actions to take when leveraging the power or your brand’s DNA to move you forward into the new. Read more » 

Impactful Stories

We catch up with one of our most long term collaborators and partners Iñaki Escudero. He has been an influential thinker, speaker and mentor to many students and learners over the years through his inspiring talks and role modelling continued evolution through change and learning by doing. In this Q&A we hear his reflections on learning, storytelling, being in the stretch zone and more. Read more » 

• Business Storytelling and Jobs To Be Done have more in common than you might think. Hyper Island Co-Founder Jonathan Briggs with more on this.
  
  
• Growth mindset and seasonality - a chance to lead with intention. Watch Head of BT Europe Asa Rexare explain.

In the coming months: well-being and leadership; creative mindset; and change through structure and culture.

Make change happen.

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