Dr Amy Silver said...

“You will want to keep this one close to hand; it could become your guide to getting more of what you want out of your life.”

Thank you Dr Amy Silver MAPS ClinPsyD MA MPhil BSc(Hons) for reading and reviewing ‘Argh! Too much information, not enough brain; A practical guide to outsmarting overwhelm’. 

She said, “In a world where overwhelm is a state that many of us suffer from, this book is the manual on how to manage it. 

“As with all Lynne Cazaly books, this is an immensely practical book, that reminds us of the power we can have over our complicated lives even though it seems, well, overwhelming. 

“With clear strategies and immediately usable tools to neutralize the sensation of being out of control, this book is for anyone struggling to keep on top of their to do list!”


To outsmart overwhelm, overwork and information overload ... have a read of ‘Argh!’  

Doing more in times of less

There may be less people in the team than there used to be. 
Or less budget for training, learning, projects or initiatives. 
Maybe the long list of ideas for customer solutions can’t be pursued fully now. 

It can be disappointing and restricting to have such plans and hopes get paused, stopped or shelved. 

These are times of austerity. 

Austerity - it means restraint, moderation, frugality. 

Governments are doing it, businesses are doing it and families and households are too. 

We might be working with budgets we’ve not seen before yet we still have to deliver solutions and outcomes like never before. 

This is the austerity wave that covid has brought us. 

What will we do? 

Get dumped by it? 
Get dragged back out to sea? 
Or ride that sucker!?

Let’s ride!! 

Focus on these 3 ways:
- Think better 
- Work smarter 
- Connect faster. 

These kinds of responses don’t depend on economies. 

Making sense in healthcare

As health services the world over have adapted and responded to the impacts of a pandemic, they have been Sensemaking. 

On one day they had a level of knowledge or understanding ... and then new facts, results or data came to light. This changes their perspective and in turn influences their next responses and actions. 

While changing situations might annoy some people, the role of change and Sensemaking in the health sector is vitally important. 

As health services respond, they observe, monitor and track to make sense of what’s going on. 

No system is perfect or faultless. 

They observe and understand what is happening ... and we can too, in our industries and sectors. 

What about you : What actions are you taking? 
What is happening as a result of your actions? 

We make sense as new information comes to light. 

🙏🏻Here’s a ‘thank you’ to healthcare workers the world over. 

A discovery mindset : do you have it

One of the best meetings and workshops to design and lead is a discovery workshop. 

To simply and profoundly ‘find out’. 

Get people together - online is fine - and find out what they:
think
know
believe
hope
envisage
are prepared to do. 

There is much to discover and relearn about people, situations, problems and challenges. Things are changing. There may be new things to discover. 

What a shame it is to think we already know all there is to know, or to think we already have the best solutions. 

It’s one of my favourite and most impactful workshops to design and facilitate, because it so often delivers things we didn’t know!  

Because ... discovery! 

Who could you bring together to discover what the heck is going on, what they think, and what is possible? 

Call it a Discovery Workshop and get it going. 

Minute by minute - hour by hour

It’s how we make sense when nothing seems to make sense. 

As facts change and there is new data, we know more. As more information comes to light, the situation changes and we learn more. 

Then we act again. 

As we learn more from those actions, we act again. 

It’s one of the best reasons for getting into action sooner. Sooner than you think you should. 

You’ll get hindsight and be able to look back on what happened, on how it went. We can’t know everything before taking action, but we can make adjustments once we’re in action. 

Get going on that project or task. Things will look different again once you’re underway.