Blog - Madeleine Shaw Executive Coaching

I once heard someone describe your email inbox as a to-do list managed by anyone who happens to have your email address – ouch! And it’s not just email. For so many of us, commitment and high performance can look and feel like being endlessly available, but that’s a trap. The work is endless whereas your time and energy are not. Trouble ensues.<...

A very strong theme that comes through from almost every senior leader I work with is the desire to spend more time on thinking creatively and strategically, when this feels impossible, swamped daily by the seemingly unfightable tide of to-dos.

The sheer volume of work makes this, often, extraordinarily difficult.

And yet, when you look more closely, it’s often no...

I’m back at work this week and feeling that slightly jarring thud back to earth after an extraordinary three months away. I’m incredibly grateful to be returning to a busy calendar of client work and have dived right in. It got me thinking, though, that there might be something useful about this moment that would be easy to miss.

When you’ve been away, even briefly, you...