Then after the most boring five days of my life, the Universe smiled on me. I was given the option of flying home instead of taking the ship…. It was a big decision and I carefully considered my options. The benefits home two weeks earlier then planned…. flying not rocking my way through the roughest latitudes in the world… internet access. It took about 2 secs, to recover the power of speech and agree to take one for the team. OK, I’ll fly home since some-one needs to do it. Happy dance, happy dance, happy dance.
Tag: leadership
Learnings from 2 years and 4 landscapes
Three years ago my life took a left turn down an unfamiliar path, sometimes stony, cold and lonely and others times bathed in sunlight, full of love and warmth. This path has felt worn but at the same time narrow and one lane.
Creating a unicorn
how to sell your professional self is a critical part of business success and one that needs practise, practise and more practise
creating a community
When you are given a brand new team of people to work with it is sometimes hard, they have history, connections, unspoken values and communication pathways all mapped out. You have to negotiate and tread softly until you bed in your power relationships, make the connections that you need and learn who is who. But what if you…
Packing (hyperventilation) for Antarctica
This week marks my first week as a Station Leader in Antarctica…………….. only I’m still not quite in the big freezer. I’m sitting in an office waiting for the rest of the team to arrive and impatiently organising all the last minute packing and ordering and starting to mildly hyperventilate at the thought of forgetting something important….
Confidence – don’t forget to make it while you fake it
This week I had a revelation, I have faked being confident for so long that I have even fooled myself!!!! Over the last few years I have found myself increasingly withdrawing socially, I told myself I was just naturally shy and an introvert. A recent experience made me think about why I was social anxious, even…
Jen Wressell 