Monday reflection: Personal Energy Management

In business, productivity isn’t about how much time we give to a project, its about the economic and social value we create. Yet we structure our days around desk dairies, meetings and emails, not delivering performance and output. The result is often high levels of activity for low impact. Our highest-value work designing strategy, problem-solving, and decision-making requires peak mental focus and energy so we need to channel our time to what delivers for us and others.

At a team level, this matters even more. Back-to-back meetings and constant switching in each meeting and across a day from topic to topic often without delivering resolution drains our personal and our collective energy. We need to give ourselves time to focus and deliver output. We can batch meetings into specific windows, build mental recovery time into the day and guard our personal energy. If not we face burnout and disappointment that we have not achieved what we set out to.

NFU Tenants Conference

It was really interesting to go to the NFU Tenants Conference last week and here a presentation by Alan Laidlaw, the Commissioner for the Tenant Farming Sector . In England, 45% of holdings are either wholly tenanted or mixed tenure, and a third of all agricultural land in England is tenanted. This leadership role has a wide remit and significant potential for positive outcomes and impacts. This role will require courageous leadership the subject of a previous post on this blog.

Vice-chair of the East Malling Trust

Really pleased to have been elected as joint Vice-Chair of the East Malling Trust and looking forward to getting involved in the trust's activities.

NFU Council

Last week I spent two days at the NFU Council representing the farmers from Herefordshire. If you would like to see a summary of what we talked about - check out the video here.

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