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Do you have a 2021 personal mission statement? Your personal mission statement describes who you are, your purpose, why it is important to you, and and how you will achieve it. Your personal mission statement will help you prioritize what is important and provide you with focus.

When working on your professional and personal goals for 2021, first start with the end in mind. By that I mean aim BIG for where you see yourself professionally and personally, and then simply work backwards indicating all the activities you will need to perform to get to your end goal. Go for it! #jennyreillyconsulting

Prioritize what is important in you life. What are you working towards? What do you want in your professional and personal life?

We often to get to 'no' too fast. When a potential solution is bought forward, simply ask how to determine if it is really viable. #JennyReillyConsulting

Back-to-back virtual meetings, deadlines, managing family and responsibilities during a global pandemic do I need to say more! Time to take back control of how you spend your time at work (in person or virtual) and home. #JennyReillyConsulting

Take a breath, slow down, and focus on what is important. #JennyReillyConsulting

The start of Q4 is tomorrow, October 1st 2020! 2020 has been quite a year, one that we will not forget for decades to come. It is time to evaluate how far we have come from our initial goals set at the beginning of the year, if we are on track, or if we have had to pivot completely and set new goals due to the effects of the global pandemic on both of our professional and personal lives. For the remaining months of 2020, set four goals for the quarter, whether they be profe...ssional, personal, tactical or development goals. Write your goals down and hold yourself accountable. By taking the next best step to move each goal forward, and being relentless consistent in this action, you will attain your goals by the end of the year end. #jennyreillyconsulting

We don't know what we don't know - a lot will be different moving forward. Business fatigue, changing workplace configurations, being a futurist leader and embracing different working conditions - we have had a lot going on over the last six months. How are you fairing?... https://jennyreilly.com/we-dont-know-what-we-dont-know-a-l/ #jennyreillyconsulting #leadership

McKinsey reports are so useful. I encourage you to read this great article on solving problems during this current time. Six simple steps: 1. Be ever-curious 2. Tolerate ambiguity and stay humble... 3. Take a dragonfly-eye view (or as per my recent blog post the '10,000 foot view' https://jennyreilly.com/jenny-reilly-consulting-skydiving/) 4. Pursue occurrent behaviour 5. Tap into collective intelligence and the wisdom of the crowd 6. Show and tell to drive action https://www.mckinsey.com//six-problem-solving-mindsets-for

Perspective is everything! What's yours? https://jennyreilly.com/jenny-reilly-consulting-skydiving/

Leadership development can help you strengthen resilience, preparedness and support your leadership team feel more confident. Need help please reach out to me [email protected] #jennyreillyconsulting... http://ow.ly/1xU950BrUMD

Be creative in offering unconventional perks to your employees during this time. Showing you care goes a long way to help with employee engagement and feeling of belongingness. https://www.inc.com//perks-benefits-covid-pandemic-remote- #leadership #teccanada #engagement

What type of leader do you want to be? #jennyreillyconsulting #leadershipdevelopment #leadership #executivecoaching https://jennyreilly.com/what-type-of-leader-do-you-want-to/

Feeling tired today? Please read, comment and share my latest blog post. Let me know your thought. Make it a great day, Jenny... #jennyreillyconsulting #leadership #strategy https://jennyreilly.com/how-to-overcome-leadership-fatigue/

COVID has given us the opportunity to not only demonstrate that in the majority of situations remote or virtual work practices can be productive and beneficial for the organization. In addition, the flexibility of work schedules (hours that are worked) has shown that employees have found this option very helpful. Four great questions to consider when rethinking work schedule options: 1. How does my organization's scheduling practices affect employee effectiveness and well-be...ing? 2. Can we better align our work schedules with the needs, desires and personalities of our employees? 3. What are the implications of creating customized schedules or giving employees more control over their schedule? 4. Can we effectively balance the needs and desires of both the organization and employees? #HBR #teccanada #workschedules http://ow.ly/MThZ50AwYBd

Much of my work pre-COVID was in person, however like many of you I have moved to 100% online. Being on zoom for continuous back-to-back meetings can definitely be draining. Have you found yourself realizing that, yes, your face really looks like that on video, or worse being frozen mid-sentence - now that is an attractive look. You may have also had an entertaining family disruption while on a zoom call. I have had a few including when my 16-year old daughter broke our sin...ging loudly (and of course beautifully) in an accompanying room as she was on a school choir call, the thundering volume of the Rocky theme song playing as my son prepared to sit a virtual university exam, or our Bernadoodle deciding she wanted to play and biting my ankles under my desk while I was giving a pitch to executives you are getting the picture. 1: Don’t take yourself so seriously and laugh when it is funny we are all human, after all. 2: Consider if it is even essential to have a zoom call? Scrutinize your calendar and determine if all the meetings you have scheduled for the next week are necessary. Review what can be switched to a call. Happy Zooming this week! All the best, Jenny https://ideas.ted.com/zoom-fatigue-is-real-heres-why-video/

Please read, share and comment on my latest blog post released today: Breaking the Inertia and Old Workplace Systems. Let me know your thoughts. Make it a great day, Jenny https://jennyreilly.com/breaking-the-inertia-and-old-workp/

Would you like help: 1. Setting ambitious goals and developing a personalized roadmap for professional and personal success 2. Increasing productivity and standards of performance... 3. Focusing your investment of time, energy and attention 4. More time in your schedule and determining practices and habits that are no longer serving and eliminate them 5. Reacquiring your mojo around passion for work, personal wellbeing, and life This is what I focus on in executive coaching session, read on for more insight. https://jennyreilly.com/what-is-the-value-of-having-an-exe/

Well before COVID raised its ugly head, traditional retailers had coped with big box stores, then the rise of Amazon, and finally the surge of retail innovation ignited by the pandemic. Dr. Denise Lee Yohn in a short HBR Blog posting warns this sector against expecting their business models to revert to normal when the pandemic is past. Clearly, The Pandemic is Rewriting the Rules of Retail. A huge thank you to all my retail professional connections for continuing to offer... exceptional service through this very difficult time of COVID. https://hbr.org//the-pandemic-is-rewriting-the-rules-of-re

How will technology change the world in the next five years you may wonder??? A must-read! The World Economic Forum annually invites a group of technology leaders to look ahead at how their work will impact the future. These Technology Pioneers provide a five-year look ahead at how their work will alter your world by 2025.... These 17 ways technology could change the world by 2025 deserve your attention because most, if not all, will affect you: 1. AI-optimized manufacturing 2. Energy transformation 3. A new era of quantum computing 4. Healthcare paradigm shift to prevention through diet 5. 5G 6. A new normal in managing cancer 7. Robotic retail 8. A blurring of physical and virtual spaces 9. Putting individuals at the heart of healthcare 10. The future of construction 11. Gigaton-scale CO2 removal will help reverse climate change 12. A new era in medicine 13. Closing the wealth gap 14. Clean energy revolution 15. Understanding the microscopic secrets hidden on surfaces 16. Expedite decarbonization in carbon heavy industries 17. Privacy prioritization https://www.weforum.org//17-predictions-for-our-world-in/ https://www.weforum.org//17-predictions-for-our-world-in/

Executive coaching can help you interested? Do you have an open mind and willingness and desire to grow? I can help you: -achieve your goals -build productive professional relationships... -learn new ways to deal with issues and respond more positively and productively, and -leverage your strengths Please message me for more details. #jennyreillyconsulting #executive coaching

Happy Canada Day and.... Happy 52nd Birthday to me! Brash isn't it to not only share my birthday but tell you my age! What can I say... I love birthdays and am especially grateful this year. As we start this month and new quarter in Vancouver we are now in Phase 3 of the Restart BC Plan. Please read one of my recent blog posts on 'Returning to Normal Operations...' and as it is my birthday do me a favour and share. ... We have a great deal of work ahead of us to help our teams feel comfortable in returning to work places. If I can be of assistance to you during this time, please do message me. #jennyreillyconsulting #phase3 #smallbusiness #leadership https://jennyreilly.com/returning-to-work-britishcolumbia/

Ruthless consistency is your leadership focus objective this week. 1. Look at your week and evaluate what you have on your schedule. Prioritize using the 80/20 rule listing action required from the most important to least significant. Your objective is to have a comprehensive list and then highlight the top 20% of activities that will produce your highest return on time. Don't lose focus on 'busy projects,' relentless zoom meetings, email, or only working on the 'urgent' fir...es of the day. 2. Your top 20% of activities are your most important. These are the items that you will focus on this week. Delegate, defer, or delete other items. Be vigilant, so you focus only on the top 20% of issues requiring action. 3. Timblock into your schedule sufficient time that is uninterruptable to work on the top 20% of critical strategic initiatives that will bring you the greatest return this week. Let me know at the end of the week if your focus, productivity, and results improved over last week. Make it a good one!

Appreciation is one of the most potent yet underutilized leadership tools. Employees over the last three months have demonstrated resilience and hard work; how often do you tell your employees that you have been 'wowed'? Showing appreciation is not flattery. Communicating appreciation is much more than complimenting, it is giving specific and positive feedback that has made an impact. Who are you appreciative of today? #jennyreillyconsulting #leadershiptip

If you decide to improve your emotional intelligence, work on how you connect with and positively influence others, it’s like turning on a light switch that can result in your leadership ability improving tenfold. Interested in executive coaching to work on your EI? Message me today, executive coaching packages available for July start dates. #jennyreillyconsulting #leadership #professionaldevelopment