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Boost your leadership effectiveness with naps and gaps
Do you jam your day with back to back appointments? Do you have a crushing sense of not enough time in the day? Do you rush from one thing to the next? This is not helping. You don’t optimise productivity by squeezing more in your calendar. You become more productive when you manage the gaps better.
Why you should listen: 'Sleeping on it' as a leadership strategy
The Boundless Leadership paradox: no borders and no barriers means we also have to work with limitations
5 reasons why gaps - and naps - help your brain defrag
How to take an effective break
We explore why gaps are good for your leadership skills list
#boundlessleadership
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Shownotes:
The Power of Full Engagement by Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz
Four limitations to OPTIMISE:
Time
Sleep
Focus
Health
Five things sleep does for the brain:
Allows subconscious to make decisions
Consolidates memories
Makes creative connections
Clears out toxins
Learn and remember how to do physical tasks
The full article is here.
How to take effective breaks - full article here.
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Related episodes on leadership effectiveness:
E69 - Productivity hacks from the Master of Implementation, Peter Cook
E31 - Don’t live in your inbox! Interview with Dermot Crowley, productivity expert
E1 - Little known friction points in productivity
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About your host, Canberra leadership expert Zoë Routh:
Canberra based leadership expert Zoë Routh on boosting your leadership effectiveness with naps and gaps
Zoë Routh is one of Australia’s leading experts on people stuff - the stuff that gets in our way of producing results, and the stuff that lights us up. She works with the growers, makers, builders to make people stuff fun and practical.
Zoë is the author of four books: Composure - How centered leaders make the biggest impact, Moments - Leadership when it matters most, Loyalty - Stop unwanted staff turnover, boost engagement, and build lifelong advocates, and People Stuff - Beyond Personalities: An advanced handbook for leadership. People Stuff was awarded Book of the Year 2020 by the Smart WFM Australian Business Book Awards.
Zoë is also the producer of The Zoë Routh Leadership Podcast.