Effective, Successful, Happy Academic

Many practices in academia show and reinforce fixed mindsets in ourselves, our workplaces, and in our students.

You didn’t come into academia to do email: use this acrostic tool to attain R-E-D-E-M-P-T-I-O-N and break its hold over you.

Your ego makes you too certain about everything – but this is most harmful when least obvious.

Even though it may be the last thing you want to do: burnout can be an impetus for important personal reflection and action.

A call to stop the collective and damaging madness where we may publish more, but are falling more behind.

As you contemplate 2022, move your learning zone from that which is easy to what is hard: learning about yourself.

Impoverished role-based definitions of leaders are endemic across universities, but we need to reclaim ‘leader’ as a gift word.

The time-work conundrum means you’ll never feel in control of your work or time but that’s okay – it’s what you do that matters most.

It’s what you do each day and ultimately contribute that matters most, not how much you do, or how long it takes.