INSPIRATION.

I had a conversation with Alistair about the 4 day week again. He knows that I am a sceptic, he knows that I've got fears around it. And he also knows that I am absolutely open to those preconceptions being challenged and for my scepticism to be...

When Alistair first mentioned the idea of a 4 day work week my mind immediately went to longer hours, more work and increased stress and pressure. I wondered if it was possible - could we achieve the holy grail of the 4 day work week? And if we...

We had the discussion with the team where Alistair pitched the 4 day week concept. I say 'pitched' but he was very careful not to be 'salesy'. He presented to the team on the Andrew Barnes model of the 4 day week - what the challenges were, what...

Walking into this meeting I was in two minds, full of questions and open to the possibilities. By the end of Alistair’s pitch, I felt I had some clarity around what a 4 Day Week was, how it worked and its success. Everyone in the team was feeling...

So we've had our next session on planning out how to do our 4 day week. And one of the things that's making me more comfortable is that we are taking quite a planned approach to this so we are looking at how do we do it in such a way that we are...

I walked into this meeting with a notepad full of questions. I think my biggest hesitation, or the things that I thought would hold us back from achieving the 4DW was our ability to effectively value and manage our time, planning our capacity and...

We had an interesting conversation yesterday about why are we even doing a four day week and it seems odd to have that conversation six months after we first started talking seriously about implementing a 4DW, but it's a valid question.  We've got...

I finally worked up the guts to share the concept of a 4DW with Scott while we drove north for a family holiday. Why did I need to work up to it?  Because I know he would be fully sceptical, I think I feared to the point of ridicule or scoffing. At...

Tomorrow is the start of our Clayton's Gift Day.  I'd never heard of a 'Clayton's' before but Pauline dubbed our 5th day a Clayton's day in our team meeting and explained that a 'Clayton's was a type of non-alcoholic whisky and became slang for...

Clayton's Gift Days have been interesting to say the least, finding the willpower to not just respond to that query from clients or answering a quick question email from my team has been a challenge. I think we are all still navigating finding the...

Week 1 of our Clayton's Gift Day (CGD) trial is now under our belt.  And it feels good… I've split my day in half for now - mainly because we need to get some Clayton's time cross over between Alistair and I given the number of business projects we...