The Power Of When and updates - Cultivated Management

Hi,

I can't believe a week has passed since the last newsletter. Time is flying by indeed.

I hope you're having a good week.
 

Presenting

This week's been a great week. I ran a Zero to Keynote workshop for a few of our team and it was great to see their confidence growing in their presentation skills. The whole point of the workshop is to move people from where-ever they are along the path to Keynotes.

Presenting is an important skill for any manager. Your job will likely always involve presenting, whether that's to your team (small or large), show and tells, company meetings, client meetings, user groups or conferences.

Being able to present well is a skill that absolutely can be taught and a skill that will give you a really good boost in your career.

I still don't enjoy presenting as much as I think I should, but it has certainly elevated my career to levels I would never imagine. Being able to present opens doors, it allows you to influence more people and, for me, it's been a really good way to push my own boundaries of learning.

If you're interested at speaking at a conference you should check out my guide for submitting to conferences.
 

New Book

I thought I'd let you all know about a new book that I'm self-publishing some time later this year. I'm aiming for a November release, but from past experience, it's never as simple as that, with a busy job and busy family life.

The book will be short, but powerful, and focused around becoming a manager, and how hard it can be.

I'll let you know more nearer the time. Follow me on Twitter for further updates.
 

Community

I launched a LinkedIn community group but I'll be honest, it's not going as planned. As with all of these types of experiments it can fail. I reckon this one might be heading that way. That's cool. I'm good with that. It's part of being a manager. Ideas that sound good will fail sometimes.
 

Blogged This Week

How do you want to measure yourself.

Someone else's opinion of you is none of your business.

Don't blame objects.
 

Book Of The Week

Being a manager is about a consistent and holistic approach to life.

Your management can never be more or less than you as a person.

If you're tired and stressed, you'll manage that way. If you're mean and grumpy, you'll manage that way.

That's why being a Cultivated Manager means cultivated every pillar of your life from health to money.

This week's book of the week is The Power Of When*. I'll be honest, it's not the most engaging of reading and I found myself skipping some chapters, but that's because the chapters were focused on people with different chronotypes to me.

"Chronotype refers to the behavioral manifestation of underlying circadian rhythms of myriad physical processes. A person's chronotype is the propensity for the individual to sleep at a particular time during a 24-hour period. 'Eveningness' (delayed sleep period) and 'morningness' (advanced sleep period) are the two extremes with most individuals having some flexibility in the timing of their sleep period." - wikipedia

There is an online test that will tell you what Chronotype you are.

Once you know this, you can work your way through the book with reference to that Chronotype; Bear, Dolphin, Lion, Wolf.

The book covers all sorts of things from when you go to bed, when to get up, when to do deep thinking, when to eat, when to negotiate, when to go for a run and many more topics.

After reading it I created a perfect day schedule. I'm a Dolphin if you're interested.

I took a lot from the book and I'm experimenting with my perfect day schedule.

Hope you enjoy it too.

Until next week...
Rob