Sleep Better
to Lead Better
Through our life events, leaders unlearn the ability to sleep well. Positive Sleep will show you how to resolve your sleep issues and transform your life.
✔ Positive Sleep
✔ More Energy
✔ Better Leadership
Your lack of sleep is damaging your business and your relationships, because:
You don’t have the energy to engage with your people properly
You lack the clarity to make better, more informed decisions
You find it hard to say no, so never have the time to switch off
Great leaders don’t just show up in business, they show up in life.
The business case for sleep
The four key positive qualities supported by better sleep (Click or tap to expand)
RESULTS ORIENTATION
Critically linked to attention and concentration, this is the ability to stay focused and see the bigger picture. Scientists have shown that after being awake for 20 hours an individual’s performance equals that of someone who is legally drunk.
SOLVING PROBLEMS EFFECTIVELY
Studies have shown that a good night’s sleep can help you spot shortcuts to solving problems, and an afternoon nap taken before 3pm has similar properties. And, of course, REM sleep has great creative thinking properties, allowing for the integration of information to develop creative solutions.
SEEKING DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES
Why would you want to listen to another person’s viewpoint late in the day if you have an idea what to do and simply want to get away from the office? The mental capacities of learning, memory and decision-making all require good quality and quantity of sleep to enable you to seek different perspectives, avoiding tunnel vision and bias.
SUPPORTING OTHERS
Emotional reactions and developing trusted relationships, which both benefit from a good night’s sleep, are key to a person’s ability to support the teams they lead and those they work with. Research suggests that when sleep deprived, we are more likely to misread verbal and non-verbal cues, to overreact and to be more negative.
I get it –
A better night’s sleep seems impossible
In Positive Sleep, I explore the lack of sleep epidemic of the 21st century through my own sleep struggles and provide guidance for you to transform your life through sleeping better.
“Giles Watkins has taken a subject dear to almost everyone’s hearts and – in simple, accessible and very personal terms – laid it out for us all to see. The result is a readable and practical book stacked full of stories and examples that constitutes a courageous personal call to action.”
– Mike Carson, Partner
McKinsey & Company, Founding Partner, Aberkyn, and author, The Manager – Inside the minds of football’s leaders
“The latest area of competitive advantage in elite sport has not been in more output, but in ensuring better recovery. Executives now see the benefit of managing their personal energy as effectively as their P&L to maintain their success – Positive Sleep is an eye-opening read to help people maximise their shut eye.”
– Jeremy Snape, Former England Cricketer and MD, High Performance Consultancy Sporting Edge
Technology has opened up the opportunities to grow our businesses and improve our lives, but at the cost of an increasing expectation to always be ‘on’.
Positive sleep will give you clarity and direction to make better decisions so that you can regain time for the things that matter.
47% of leaders are expected to be available via emails and phone calls for unreasonably long periods
★★★★★
“If you want a book to change your work, life and performance for the better, read it now!”
Ben Renshaw, Author of Purpose, LEAD! And SuperCoaching
★★★★★
“This book is a roadmap for anyone who struggles with sleep. Written in a personal and engaging way, Giles offers insights and practical steps that will not only improve your sleep but also improve your life. A must-read.”
James Burstall, Founder and Group CEO, Argonon
★★★★★
“Positive Sleep is an important book tackling a crucial issue. Giles combines hard-won personal experience with rigorous research in this gem of a read. Enlightening and instructive.”
Nigel Marsh, author, Fat, Forty and Fired and creator and host, The Five Of My Life
Be a better leader
★★★★★
“ A candid and practical book from a reformed corporate workaholic that will inspire you to take a more holistic view of your life, your health and the steps you can take to harness your most vital health resource – sleep.”
Jo Macsween, Vistage Chair (Central Scotland) and former Managing Director, Macsween
★★★★★
“Giles’s personal journey is an inspiration to all. His honest account of looking for deeper insights reads like a novel. It makes it easy to relate to and puts it well above many of the ‘how to’ books in this genre. If you ever thought of maximizing your productivity by cutting on sleep, this book will give you some food for thought. Its holistic approach is a pillar for individual well-being and the sustainable relationships these times call for.”
Tony Verbraeken, HR VP, Shell Upstream
Without Positive Sleep, everybody suffers
Approximately 1.5 million people in the UK suffer from sleep disorders. Giles Watkins is a coach and mentor. He has over 30 years of global business and general management experience in enabling decision makers to solve problems, achieve balance, deliver superior results and sleep better at night.
“Don’t think you will be doing less work because you sleep during the day. That’s a foolish notion held by people who have no imagination. You will be able to accomplish more. You get two days in one – well, at least one and a half.”
– Winston Churchill