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Depopulation: should it be our valentines theme?
Throughout my life, overpopulation and the resulting climate crisis has been a looming worry. At school I remember our geography teacher wondering if China was being bold on population control in a way the rest of the world could learn from.
Your colleagues don’t want to know you
Team dinners with empty chairs.
Horror at the very idea of Friday night drinks.
Why is it so hard to get colleagues to show up, even when they’ve said they will?!
Gen Z are all the same
Yesterday, I spoke to a CEO who told me, very confidently, that everyone would soon be back in the office five days a week.
If the traitors worked in your office
If you’re not watching Traitors, do get on with your day.
If you are…what did I miss and WHO WILL WIN?
The 3 kinds of speakers…
I wanted to share with you my word for 2025 but it’s too dark so we canned it as a vlog! To follow in a carousel next week.
Instead we have the pros and cons of different kids of speaker.
Less talent? Do this.
This week all the news is about Return to Office. Especially WPP herding its teams back for four days in the office, including two Fridays a month.
Two ways to avoid rows in 2025!
The vlog today is on our annual planing session (inspired by Felix Koch’s workshop your life) which reviews our business and personal life goals for the year.
3 festive nuggets for you…
Based on the trends of ‘24.
Let me know what you think, especially of LinkTok!
Make your clothes WORK
“WHERE DID YOU GET THAT JACKET?!” was the question I was most asked after speaking at the Senior Women in Policing conference this week. One woman told me that as soon as she saw me walk towards the stage, she knew they were going to love the session.
Solve work loneliness
Work in the 90s and early 2000s, meant hours of time together, dealing with everything from the hilarious to illegal, via a sushi-hurling boss and a creative who overtook his “sleeping meds” at Heathrow.
Which of these LinkedIn errors are you making?
🎉 Our 200th Video! 🎉
To celebrate, I’m sharing my hard-won LinkedIn learnings, what’s worked, what hasn’t, and a few surprises along the way. But I want to hear from YOU: what are your tips for mastering LinkedIn?
Have we cursed a generation? 📉
I don’t want to go full Jordan Peterson on you, but my ears pricked up recently when another speaker on our panel, the head of talent at a huge UK employer, said casually:
"We’ve stopped bothering to hire from Russell Group universities."
Get the bus to 2030
Work baby work ⛏️
The choice couldn’t be starker. Leaders are going to have to make decisions about the kind of work they want to create in either system. And then show it works for their teams.
What’s your one thing worth fighting for?
Over half-term, we took our youngest to explore the hidden war tunnels beneath Clapham Common, stretching out under the Northern Line.
Does working motherhood have to break us? ❤️🩹
I used to say it did.
But a fab new book is out by Zoe Blaskey called Motherkind and her opener was a total re-set for me.
Save 3 Hours a Week with AI, In 3 Minutes!
Are you an AI cat or dog?
I am meeting a lot of AI cats on my travels. People who distrust AI but truthfully haven’t used it. They have often banned it in their offices (and believe that younger colleagues are not using it secretly ), have commissioned long strategic plans for its use in the future and say that it cannot be trusted because it hallucinates. Which it does. Sometimes.
57+ & CRUSHING It: For everyone in recruitment, love from me x
Two staggering insights for you to smash together this week:
46% of recruiters think 57 is the moment candidates become “too old for the role” (Totaljobs).
AND…
80% of British businesses are struggling to find talent (ManpowerGroup).
The bad job cycle and how to break it
A few weeks ago, a CFO asked me, with real frustration, “Why do we keep creating such bad jobs?” Said with the kind of defeat that suggested it’s unsolvable.
My career failures (so you can avoid them)
This week I was asked to speak at the Specsavers careers week. Instead of talking about work trends they asked me to share what I’ve learnt about staying ahead of the curve