Balkin Coaching Leadership Insights

“Every time I think my ship is comin' in That old tide will turn and it'll take me back out again If I just lay back and float I'll be in trouble you see So I gotta keep working and kicking and swimming upstream” Swimming upstream by Glen Campbell (click here for the music) Heath, D. (2020). Upstream : how to solve problems before they happen . P1 London: Bantam Press. What is the connection between upstream behaviour and wellbeing? Regular readers would know that an evidence

"Please, would you one time Let me be myself So I can shine with my own light And let me be myself?" Let Me Be Myself by 3 Doors Down (click here for the music) Photo by Andrej Lišakov on Unsplash “I just don’t know what’s happened to my CTO, he has been in the role for a long time, and he seems to have lost his mojo. We have a good relationship, he is capable, aligned with the firms’ values, really passionate about what we are trying to achieve, but something isn’t quite ri

"It's sad, so sad It's a sad, sad situation And it's gettin' more and more absurd It's sad, so sad Why can't we talk it over? Ohh, it seems to me that sorry seems to be the hardest word ” Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word by Elton John (click here for the music) Thank you Eric Barker for sharing this fabulous quote on your Instagram page https://www.instagram.com/bakadesuyo/ Many of my Australian clients are feeling the strain of the extended lockdowns and are reflecting th

"It’s the good advice that you just didn’t take" Ironic by Alanis Morissette ( click here for the song) Photo by Jonathan Cooper on Unsplash Earlier this week a client began a session a bit exasperated he said to me “My colleague keeps telling me how to do my job, I know she is well meaning but ‘she drives me crazy’… I am really worried I will explode feel and blurt out ‘Just Don’t tell me what to say and don’t tell me what to do’” . ( I don’t think she intentionally quot