Showing Up

Show up and be counted!

Don't just live for the weekends – enjoy what you do, feel enthusiastic about your job and really show up. Let Tim Robson inspire you to bring it every day – to really contribute at work, make a difference and feel good about yourself as a result. He will also show you how to instil that enthusiasm in others so you can be surrounded by a team who gives a damn and really makes things happen. Who wouldn't want to work in a place like that!?

So whether feeling a little lack-lustre at work, or you’re a manager with a team you want to get the most out of, Showing Up will give you real, practical steps you can take to really ignite some passion and start to drive forward at full force.

• Practical advice on how to engage at work and encourage engagement in others
• Addresses the dominant norms and practices that often get in the way of us really showing up and bringing our best selves to work
• How to shift your mindset from thinking about work as ‘school with pay’, to really wanting to get stuck in
• How to identify your strengths and be good at what you do

Introduction 1

Updates Are Available 7

Pay Attention. Keep the Plug Out. 15

School with Pay – Five Paradigms to Break 35

The Games We Play(ed) 61

Showing Up – The Gates Are Open 89

Five New Paradigms 97

Bringing Your MOST – Four Gears for Showing Up 131

Gear 1 – Your Mindset 135

Gear 2 – Your Outcomes 161

Gear 3 – Your Strengths 177

Gear 4 – Your Time 185

Now Show Up! 209

About Tim Robson 217

Acknowledgements 219

Index 221

"... you will find some useful tips here." (HR, May 2014)

"... as much for managers who have a team they want to get the most out of as it is for individuals who aren't feeling at one with their job." (inManagement, Summer 2014)

"The book helps if you want to reshape your way of thinking about work practices to achieve more success and I challenge anyone not to uncover something from this book that can be taken away and positively applied to themselves, or their business. A very good read." (B2B Marketing, July 2014)

"... worth a read if you're serious about your career." (PA Life, August 2014)

Tim Robson is the owner of Coracle Learning Ltd, a management consultancy specialising in corporate culture, business improvement and employee development. Coracle designs programmes and provides advice and support to a wide spectrum of companies including some of the UK's leading brands such as Marks & Spencer, HSBC and The British Heart Foundation.
Before launching Coracle, Tim was Head of Customer Service Design for Marks and Spencer, working across all store formats, sales channels and product lines. He also led Service Change and Contact Centre teams at HBOS and ran M&S Retail Customer Services, alongside ongoing development as an accredited NLP Master Practitioner.

When the REAL YOU shows up, it might just change EVERYTHING.

Many different versions of us show up in the places we work, and for a variety of reasons. Sometimes when we're working, our real selves take a back seat.

The mindset and underlying working mentality of people in an organization goes a long way to defining its culture. The problem is, many of our dominant norms and practices get in the way of us really showing up and bringing the best of ourselves to work.

Showing Up is a powerful update to the way we think, react and operate in the work we do. The opportunity to show up is there for all of us, in any job, in any organization and in any part of the world in which we find ourselves. 'Work' can be amazing, adrenaline-filled, muscle-stretching and full of possibility, regardless of the sector we're in. We just need our heads to be in the right place.

Showing Up will show you how to:

• Shift your working mindset from 'School with Pay', to one where you get stuck in and start making a difference
• Identify your strengths and make the most of all your talents
• Make a real contribution at work and feel better about yourself as a result
• Instil enthusiasm in others and create a team that really makes things happen

Get ready for a book that will spark an update in your thinking, change the way you view your professional life and transform your performance in the process.

"Showing Up will disrupt the way you think while you're working and help you raise your game in the process. Update now!"
—Steve Backley OBE, 3-time World Record Holder and 3-time Olympic Medallist

"This book is a shot in the arm for anyone who's serious about the work they do."
—Sir Clive Woodward