Showing Up: How to Make a Greater Impact at Work

Introduction

Over 3 billion people across the planet showed up for work today. But which version of them arrived at their workplace? Is it one their friends would recognize? How closely will it resemble their job title and description? Is it the same person they'd promised at interview or a version of themselves their family would be proud of?

Many different versions of us show up in the places we work, and for a variety of reasons. Sometimes when we're working, we're really not ourselves.

When I was a child, I always wanted to work in a big office. My father was a civil servant in Central London for most of my childhood and seeing him head off in the morning to an office in the city seemed exciting and glamorous and I thought it was cool ...