Does your office make you sick and tired?

Does your office make you sick and tired?

by | Nov 19, 2019 | Zena Everett's Blog

For years, leadership teams have been convinced that creating fun, collegiate, open plan cultures was the key to employee satisfaction and therefore productivity. Most days I visit offices with sport/music/news playing in the background, with endless distractions and...

How Meetings Waste your Money

by | Oct 1, 2018 | Zena Everett's Blog

Being in back to back meetings is nothing to be proud of.  Don’t waste your precious talent in pointless meetings. Avoid horrors like this… Sounds familiar? You have ten full-time team members.  Each one attends four internal meetings a week, booked into...
Five Positive Ways to say No

Five Positive Ways to say No

by | Jul 17, 2018 | Uncategorized, Zena Everett's Blog

Do you already feel overwhelmed, with too much work to do and not enough time to do it in?   How do you cope when you are asked to do even MORE? The first step is to weigh up the value of the extra work.   Is it career-enhancing: giving you extra skills, networks or...
Why good managers make you take a break

Why good managers make you take a break

by | Mar 20, 2018 | Zena Everett's Blog

D-Day Veteran Bryson William Verdun Hayes, known as Verdun,  shows us how to have fun – he’s the oldest British skydiver at 101 years and 38 days. He broke the record by completing a tandem skydive with three generations of his family in Devon in May 2017...