Free Time vs Unscheduled Time: Why empty space is so important to me

by AnnaYoung | Jun 11, 2024 | Coaching, Leadership, Uncategorized

I read once somewhere about how poetry is the only written form that pays as much attention to the white space on the page as the actual written words. The shape of the poem and how it interacts with the space around it. In architecture it’s called whitespace, empty...

A Formula for Change: Why It’s Important to Feel Uncomfortable

by AnnaYoung | May 28, 2024 | Coaching, Leadership

I recently came across a new ‘fun’ formula that is quite different to the one my kids are learning in algebra: C = D* V + FS > R Or Change happens when the level of Discomfort  (in your current context) multiplied by your Vision (for a future state) plus a...

Using My Dreams to Become a Better Leader

by AnnaYoung | May 4, 2024 | Coaching, Leadership

This is not a blog about dreams as premonitions or visions – although I googled ‘famous visions in dreams’ as I started writing this post and it is quite a rabbit hole to fall down – (falling down rabbit holes itself being the start of the dream sequence that is the...

Feedback That Helps: Five ways to get people to tell you what they really think.

by AnnaYoung | Apr 8, 2024 | Coaching, Leadership

Last year I wrote a blog post on how to get better at receiving feedback,  as a counterpoint to all the articles out there that are helping us get better at giving feedback. But there is little more frustrating than building oneself up to asking for feedback, only to...

Mental Agility – Practicing Switching Perspectives

by AnnaYoung | Mar 13, 2024 | Facilitation, Leadership

When I was young, one of the ways my father would entertain us during long car rides, was by picking a topic for us to debate. About five minutes into the debate, just as things were starting to get heated, he would suddenly should ‘SWITCH!’ at which point...