Balkin Coaching Leadership Insights

Photo by Indian Yogi (Yogi Madhav) on Unsplash "The time to relax is when you don't have time for it." Jim Goodwin (Irish football player) Last week, I was working with a group of senior executives who were preparing to deliver challenging messages relating to dramatic organisational change to their staff. All were mindful that no matter how much preparation they had undertaken, on the day it would be stressful, and their role was to be informative, empathetic and supporti

The summer is here in Sydney, we are all about to have a few public holidays and perhaps a week or more out of the office. It would be particularly nice if we could just flick a switch and automatically switch off from work. My readers in the northern hemisphere, I encourage you to please read on, as being able to easily unwind is just as relevant to you. My very first psychology supervisor taught that me there are three main ways people can relax: focusing on muscles; us