I’ve always been resilient when it comes to change. I’ve mixed it up all of my life. At the age of 16, I craved independence and left home, only to go back 4 weeks later with my tail firmly between my legs. I was 19 before I had another go, and this time I made […]
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Thinking V Feeling
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, […]
Channel your inner Elsa and Let it Go
At some point or another, I find myself telling my clients that they are sealed units. Sure, there are a couple of ways in and a couple of ways out, but outside of that, absolutely everything is contained inside their bodies, and their thoughts only exist inside their heads. Take a minute or two to […]
A lighter way to live
Do you know what’s good about living your life in the here and now? True peace of mind, that’s what. If you can live like this, in the here and now, neither you nor the world that you live in will be strained. When you’re in this space, you get to live a life that […]
Asperger Syndrome – A unique contribution to the workplace
I had spent all day with him in a workshop. The purpose of the workshop was to identify ways in which we could measure the culture of our company to track changes/improvements. He joined us at the request of the CEO and he made connections from company data to organisational culture that we HR/OD professionals would […]
Sex Education
So I was sitting (well slouching) on the sofa, watching some obscure lectures on human behaviour when we got to module 17, and the topic flashed up on the screen Human Sexual Behaviour. I was immediately taken back to my first year of secondary school and the Biology lesson with the giggle-provoking title of ‘Sex Education.’ […]
All the best people have the colours of the rainbow inside of them
‘He’s on the spectrum; she has OCD, he has ADHD, I think she has learning difficulties’ it’s amazing how many people I have spoken to over the years who have felt comfortable in diagnosing colleagues, friends even themselves as having degrees and types of neuroatypical conditions. (Neuroatypical is an umbrella term for anyone who could […]
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 […]
Motivation is from Mars; Commitment is from Venus
So you know those siblings who you hang out with, that couldn’t be more different? Well, that was my motivation and commitment at times. My motivation always tipping towards the eager side, while my commitment tipped slightly towards the sluggish side. Like two very different kids sharing a bedroom, they shared the same psychological space […]
Squaring the Circle
I always hated the phrase ‘squaring the circle’ I think it’s because I heard it a lot when my job had me spend a great deal of time with corporately schooled consultants. We had a rake of them around the place, and I found them to be sort of ‘Stepford Wives’ like in their ways […]
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