In July of last year, I applied for voluntary redundancy. My Mum was struggling with the day to day of life, so I saw this opportunity as a gift. Three of us walked out of the door that day and into new worlds. My friends found good jobs almost immediately, where they and their expertise […]
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 […]
Silver City New Mexico
Everywhere you look in New Mexico it’s Mexican roots bleed through. Gardens where a gnome might stand instead have statues of the Virgin Mary or Christ. Their dead are still a part of their life and the cemeteries are well tended and festooned with bright plastic flowers, religious iconography and trinkets. It’s a sort of […]
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 […]
Mediation – Strike While The Iron Is Hot – But How Hot?
Janice had the birthday card for their manager Jack on her desk. Whenever there was a birthday in the department she was always the one collecting the money and circulating the cards. She had 2 people left to sign this particular card but was stuck on a telephone call with a client, a client determined […]
Stress Awareness Month – You Can’t Find Inner Peace By Shouting About It
The month of April is Stress Awareness Month. Stress means different things to different people; well at least the degrees and duration of stress do, so there is no template for tagging and categorising it. In general, if you are subject to stress, you will not be expecting to feel particularly good either mentally or […]
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