Three live events for Lincoln Alumni (and 25% off the comedy night). Three brilliant live shows are coming up at The Drill in early June – and as Lincoln College alumni, you’ve got an exclusive 25% discount on one of them. If you’ve not been to The Drill recently (or at all), it’s worth [Read more…]
Why Showing Up Consistently Beats Showing Off. Ask any manager what they actually value most in their team and the answer is almost never “the most exciting person in the room.” It’s usually the one who does what they say they’ll do, when they said they’d do it. Reliability is the quiet career skill [Read more…]
When the Job Itself Is the Hard Bit. Mental Health Awareness Week ran 11–17 May this year. This year’s theme – chosen by the Mental Health Foundation – was Action, on the basis that awareness on its own only goes so far. With the week now done and the LinkedIn posts quietly fading, we [Read more…]
In our regular series where we look at well-known books and pull out the practical lessons our alumni can use at work, this month we’re picking up Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown. If you read March’s piece on Cal Newport’s Deep Work and found yourself nodding along, this is the natural [Read more…]
How to Spot Hallucinations and Use AI More Confidently. Last month we wrote about choosing your first real AI project at work – picking something small, low-risk, and seeing what these tools can actually do. One of the things we mentioned in passing was that AI tools are confident even when they’re wrong. That’s [Read more…]
(And Why Summer Is the Right Moment to Plan Your Next Step) Here’s a number that might reframe how you think about learning… research by the UK government found that adults who participate in learning are more likely to report higher job satisfaction, better health, and stronger social connections. The returns go well beyond a [Read more…]
You’ve read the articles. You’ve heard colleagues talk about it. Maybe you’ve even played around with a chatbot at home, asking it to write a silly poem or settle a debate. But when it comes to actually using AI for something real at work, you haven’t quite made the leap. If that sounds familiar, you’re [Read more…]
You got the job. You’re doing the work. Your manager seems happy. And yet, somewhere in the back of your mind, a quiet voice keeps whispering: “Any day now, they’re going to figure out you don’t really belong here.” If you recognise that feeling, you’re far from alone. Psychologists Dr Pauline Clance and Dr Suzanne [Read more…]
Think negotiation only happens when there’s a salary on the table? Last month, we looked at the art of asking for what you’re worth in a pay conversation. But consider this: you’re already negotiating – every single day – and you probably don’t even realise it. That conversation where you convinced your manager to push [Read more…]
Walk into almost any UK workplace and you’ll find people in their twenties alongside people in their sixties – sometimes their seventies. Four generations sharing the same teams, meetings, and group chats: Baby Boomers, Gen X, Millennials, and Gen Z, all in one room. That’s a lot of different Spotify playlists and very different opinions [Read more…]