Being the Captain of your own ship is the ultimate test of yourself and stepping up to be the leader that people need you to be. Right now, each person in a leadership role, whether formal or informal, will be feeling the burden of being the ‘captain’ of their ‘ship’ and team. The English sea captain and writer, Joseph Conrad, described the role of being the ‘captain’ as: ‘In each ship there is one person who, in the hour of emergency or peril at sea, can turn to no other per

In our ‘busyness’ to get stuff done, the pressure is significant…we find ourselves unable to anticipate where the next demand on our team and resources will come from. Ultimately, we find it easier, even essential to get that thing off our list before the next one bites… Whether you are managing your teams’ daily task or in the C-suite driving that well-considered strategy; with the demand from stakeholders or an internal metric to tick, the desire to get ‘tasks’ done is cons