Passive vs Proactive Procrastination – and How to Tell the Difference

by AnnaYoung | Feb 7, 2024 | Coaching, Facilitation, General, Leadership

It’s so ironic that I have been procrastinating on writing a piece about procrastinating! But I’m taking a deep breath and diving in. The motivation for writing this came from my new favorite book (I’d call it my book of the year but that feels a little presumptuous...

What Throws YOUR Mind Completely Off Balance

by AnnaYoung | Jan 12, 2024 | Coaching, Inspiration, Leadership

This is not the article I sat down to write this morning – it’s the article about what I do when I get mentally thrown off balance! I wanted to write a piece this week about values. How if we can articulate our own values it can actually help in relating...

Tips for Staying Focused in the Company of Others

by AnnaYoung | Jan 6, 2024 | Leadership

There are clearly some events where concentration, focus and attention are no problem – the ones where I am invested in getting to an outcome, where there is a deadline or a pressing need for a decision.  Or the ones which have a great facilitator keeping everyone...

Networking or Net-weaving?

by AnnaYoung | Nov 16, 2023 | Coaching, Leadership

Several years ago I was about to leave for a conference on innovation in San Francisco when my boss asked me what my plans for networking there were. This threw me into a sense of panic for two, potentially contradictory, reasons.  On the one hand, as a borderline...

Catching Up With Myself

by AnnaYoung | Nov 15, 2023 | Coaching, Leadership

Have you ever arrived somewhere after a long (possibly plane journey) and felt that, while your physical body is present, there are parts of you that are still somewhere else, possibly high over the water somewhere, possibly still lingering at your last destination?...