by Eva Doyle | Feb 28, 2018 | Leadership, Practical tips, Productivity
3 Keys to Leadership Productivity Once you become a corporate leader, you often wonder what happened to your time. I remember one boss telling me I could get more done in an eight-hour day than anyone she’d ever seen. I took great pride in that. Then I became a...
by Eva Doyle | Feb 14, 2018 | Inspirational, Leadership
Photo by Martine Jacobsen on Unsplash Olympic Lessons in Leadership It’s the Winter Olympics and I am getting my fill of sliding and gliding. Some sports make me wish I were out there and some make me glad I’m enjoying them on the sofa. Another thing I love about the...
by Eva Doyle | Feb 6, 2018 | Communication, Leadership, Practical tips
Test Your Assumptions Rewards I adopted Murphy, our dog, from a shelter when he was five years old. I made a lot of assumptions about how to be a good dog owner, based on all the reading I’d done. Most of the time, I seemed to be on the right path. I...
by Eva Doyle | Feb 1, 2018 | Leadership, Teams
Photography by Eva Doyle. A loom warped and ready to go. A Healthy Tension For a long time in my career, I was uncomfortable with conflict. The roots of that go back to my childhood spent with an alcoholic parent, but as Judge Judy would say, that’s a discussion for...
by Eva Doyle | Jan 30, 2018 | Communication, Leadership, Practical tips
Photo by Todd Quackenbush on Unsplash Sometimes I marvel at how simple tools can make hard jobs easy and easy jobs almost fun. Take, for example, a good pair of work gloves. It’s amazing how much more you can do with just a bit of protection on your hands. How much...
by Eva Doyle | Jan 25, 2018 | Leadership
Photo by Kris Atomic on Unsplash Times Up, Indeed As a leader at any level in any organization, you will find yourself drawn into controversies and conundrums that will test your leadership character. In London, certain rich and powerful gentlemen, and their...
by Eva Doyle | Jan 23, 2018 | Leadership, Practical tips
Photo by John Silliman on Unsplash Not Even Weeds Soil can become so devoid of nutrients that even weeds can’t grow in it. I never realized that until a friend, Ivor Tymchak, wrote about his garden in his e-mail newsletter. He’d been using soil for ten years,...
by Eva Doyle | Jan 18, 2018 | Communication, Leadership
Photo courtesy of www.weisspaarz.com Seven Things for Leaders to Learn from Judge Judy I am a big fan of Judge Judy. I’ve learned a lot from watching her show, such as the definition of a contract, never co-sign a loan, and don’t date deadbeats. Like many...
by Eva Doyle | Jan 16, 2018 | Practical tips
Prepare To Show You Care When you take on a leadership position, you may be surprised at the number of things you suddenly are expected to make decisions about. One of those is weather. “Weather?” you’re thinking. “Seriously? You want me to think about weather when...
by Eva Doyle | Jan 11, 2018 | Practical tips
Many of you are coming back from some time off, and are already dreading how much e-mail is in your inbox. No question, it’s an issue. Here are my top 7 ways to handle a large volume of unread e-mail. Delete it all. While I personally don’t have the guts to do this...
