What Does Your Boss Really Want?
Discover what organisational leaders really want from emerging leaders — and how being hungry, humble and smart changes everything.
January 2026: You’re Right About Strategic Thinking… But Here’s What You’re Missing
Introducing the traffic light document as a key tool to grow strategic prioritisation in your team
November 2025: 6 Months of Evolution: Where Your Life Caddy is Headed
introducing Field Notes for Leaders – why, what is it and where is it going?
Blog 64: When You’ve Lost Your Confidence: A Practical Recovery Plan
That’s a horrible feeling, isn’t it? One moment you’re performing well, the next you’re second-guessing everything. Maybe you bombed a presentation. Maybe you missed a critical deadline. Maybe someone’s feedback hit you harder than expected. Whatever triggered it, now you’re stuck wondering if you ever had what it takes. If you’ve lost your confidence at […]
Blog 63: From Intern to Thinking Partner: The Art of Ai Collaboration . . . a shared post with Claude
The following post is designed to reflect the generative power and leverage of working with Ai. This post demonstrates a shared authorship approach between Your life caddy and Claude Ai. The post has not been edited. It is presented to you as it was developed, together (with Claude). i hope this blog realises the potential […]
Blog 53: Digging Wells: One Year of Caddying Posts and the Journey Ahead
©Franciscan Media “Let’s begin again for up to now we’ve done nothing” – St Francis of Assisi Post 53 marks a year of post writing and i thought it may help others to capture this process and the evolution of caddying, these posts and now podcasts with the evolution of the Life Caddy Minute. In […]
Blog 61: How do I manage multiple expectations from a range of others – superiors, colleagues and subordinates? PART 2: Having a clarifying conversation with your boss.
This blog is targeted at those who are struggling with conflicting expectations in their workplace. Who else feels like this at work? Part 1 of this blog series on clarifying expectations had you look at your role descriptions and have non defensive conversations with both some of your colleagues and the staff you supervise. Hopefully […]
Blog 60: How do I manage multiple expectations from a range of others – superiors, colleagues and subordinates?
Managing expectations can be a significant challenge for emerging leaders. Just managing your boss’ expectations can be difficult, but for new leaders, you will need to overlay this with the expectations of your colleagues and those you lead. Balancing all these expectations can be a juggling act. And it can be frustrating if you find […]
Blog 59: Other people are getting ahead of me. I’m being left behind. What can i do? PART 2
In the last blog we aimed to change your thinking – get you shifting away from a scarcity mindset and toward a more positive, abundance mentality. We’re trying to move away from those feelings where we feel we are missing out, that your being left behind. Taking away the panic. Here’s some practical moves you […]
Blog 58: Other people are getting ahead of me. I’m being left behind. What can I do? PART 1
©Shutterstock First, don’t panic. Your work life isn’t a race that’ll be over in a minute. This is a longer game. But these feelings can result in a sense of panic as you feel you’re getting left behind. You are turning up to work each day and lasting the slog. It’s just those around you […]