I have been coaching two business partners lately and they wouldn’t mind me saying that they are different personalities in every way. I think, in a lot of ways, this is their strength as a pairing, because these dynamics provide checks and balances and diverse ways of looking at things, but as with all relationships, […]
Category: Leadership
I promise to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth
Have you told a lie today? Statistically, you will have told two. So why do we lie? Well, it’s an evolutionary trait actually. Evolutionists believe that the reason we have such large brains is to help us navigate the complexity of our societies and social structures. The ability to tell a convincing lie is one […]
Building Resilience starts with pressing the PAUSE button…..
So what if it was never supposed to be like this. What if your mind was never designed to cope with all of this input that we force feed it every day. Television at home, in the gym, at the doctor’s, on the go, Radio in the kitchen, in the car, internet everywhere, even my […]
Always leave them with their bus fare home
I am a nonconformist for sure; I have always felt that the world was moving forward in a straight line and that my kith and kin and I were just a little to the left of whatever mainstream appeared to be. There is this other side to my personality though, that despite my eagerness to […]
Moving Over at the Top
Moving over when you are at the top is an emotionally charged situation no matter how it came around. I remember when Bush stood on the steps of the Whitehouse to greet Clinton for the first time, he stood steadfast at the top of the steps and let Clinton walk all the way up to […]
The Away Day/Team Building Conundrum
Back when I was a Learning and Development Business Partner, I met with a manager from one of my client areas to discuss the training plans for his team. Beaming me a big smile, he opened with, “I want to take them to a cook school!” “Right,” I said beaming right back at him ‘“Tell me about […]
What happens when Attention Deficit Disorder grows up?
I recently took a trip to America, a trip I nearly didn’t take. My mother had just passed away the week before and all of my realities had shifted just a little. I actually went in the end because it was preferable to staying here and walking in a house of echoes. So my husband […]
The Resilience & Dignity of Leadership
A deeper understanding of what drives individual behaviours and influences group dynamics are the two areas that leadership teams really need to get to grips with. If you really want to build resilience and gravitas into leadership teams, then these are the foundational pieces of learning. Why resilience and gravitas? Well these two areas deliver the […]
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