Author name: Katie Best

Ask someone at work how their week is going and, more often than not, unless they’re on vacation, they’ll tell you how busy they’ve been. I’m just as bad at doing this. My usual response when someone asks me, ‘how is this week going?’ is, without thinking about it, ‘busy! Busy but good. It’s all

If you want to be an effective leader, you need to learn to prioritise. As the rather terrifying title of Oliver Burkeman’s new book reminds us, we only have about 4000 weeks on this planet, if we’re lucky, and so we’d better be darned sure we are making the most of it. At work, at

What is personal effectiveness? When you hear the term personal effectiveness, what kind of human does it make you think of? Someone with the most marvellously organised day crammed with all the email, gym and meeting time that a human being can muster? Someone who is getting everything urgent on their to-do list done? An

If you’re a team leader, you’ll find that conflict is an unavoidable part of your life. In the past twenty-four hours, I have observed three different team-level conflicts: one in Pret, between a shift manager and a barista; one outed on LinkedIn by a disgruntled employee; and one shared in a coaching session by a

What do you call a leader without vision? Overpaid. OK, I know, this is a terrible joke. It’s not funny. But it gets at a fundamental truth that isn’t funny either: if a leader doesn’t have vision, they aren’t doing their job properly. I’m writing about leadership vision because, in the past week, three different

Are you regularly asked for your opinion? Have you been involved with the same specialism for 5 years or more? Do people listen intently to what you have to say on particular areas – whether it’s on social media or in person? If you answered yes to one or more of these questions, then the

I’ve heard lots of chat from clients about going back into the office, but one of the biggest concerns is if everyone is going in less, how will they handle being a hybrid team? A hybrid team, in case you’ve missed it, is a team operating between multiple locations meaning that, at any one time,

In the next few months, you’ll notice TaylorBest is being replaced by KatieBest Associates. The new company name is more in keeping with the projects Katie is now undertaking, where her expertise is front and centre in the services that she is selling. It also makes it easier for Katie to move between the work

Chances are, in the past year, you have spent a great deal of time working from home. And that means you’ll have been doing a great deal of collaboration online. You, like many of my clients, might have discovered that when you’re no longer seeing people face-to-face, it really does highlight issues with collaboration. Some