WHAT'S NEXT FOR YOU & YOUR LEADERS?
We went to a Toby Carvery recently (affordable, quick and easy for my family of 6) and we all stuffed ourselves silly! The plates are piled high, like the leaning tower of Pisa! It’s actually revolting to see, but darn... it’s tasty!
At the end of the meal, my kids ran over to the machine that is full of stuffed animals with the claw (remember Toy story... "The Claw"?). They had obviously just had a refill as it was full of teddies, alluring gullible children into believing that surely their £2 will get them the teddy of their dreams! Each of my kids had a go (costing a whopping £8) but because of lockdown, we thought why not! No one got anything, surprise surprise.
Why am I telling you this story? It’s the end of lockdown, it’s the beginning of summer, things are beginning to fall into the pre-Covid order of things.
We’ve had a year to reassess our lives, to chew over what is and isn’t working for us. Lots of my working friends have said that being able to remote work has transformed their family life and they won’t go back to full-time office-based work. Others have taken up new exercise regimes, eating habits, weekly traditions, and for others just finding a slower pace has been a revolution! As we bounce into this new season, where there are lots of bright lovely stuffed animals for us to choose from, my question to you is what kind of claw are you?
The one in Toby’s Carvery was big but flimsy and weak. It hovered over teddies looking busy, looking promising, but it didn’t have the power or inclination to actually pick one up. It made a mere limp attempt and then it was “game over.”
Are you hovering over options, thinking that you can pick anything as and when you want to with regards to your job, lifestyle, leadership style, responsibilities etc? When in actual fact you are not committing or choosing anything but just hovering and “looking busy.”
Or are you finding the right thing to commit to, catching it and making it your win as you move through this next season?
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