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So the presentation went well: you had the attention of the room and there were plenty of encouraging nods and smiles. There were even some great questions and you managed to be witty as well as smart in your answers. As you left the meeting you felt good. Maybe you...

The last 12 months have felt at times both excruciatingly slow and all at once too fast, with everything changing and yet, in the depths of each lockdown, nothing changing. Despite these months being relentless they’ve allowed time for reflection and during February...

In my forty-odd years of life so far I have experienced coaching, mentoring, meditation, therapy, reiki, reflexology, yoga and counselling, not to mention countless days and evenings talking through the ups and downs of my life with family and friends over a drink....

2020 has been one big learning curve. It’s forced us to consider our resilience, adaptability and ability to truly connect. It’s shown us that quite often the most important lessons we have are not the ones taught in classrooms or lecture halls but the ones we...

“You’ll never be able to define the culture here.” So said a senior executive to me at a former employer of mine. I took it as a challenge: he’d laid down the gauntlet, I wanted to be able to define it. Why? Because I’d been brought in to the business in a newly...

With a lot of people’s world shrunk down to predominately four walls over the last couple of months, it is hard to stop yourself from looking inwards, assessing life and reflecting on this lockdown – what its enabled or in some cases ‘disabled’. Perhaps with it...

This one’s for all those leading teams right now. Are you keeping a close eye on what your people are up to? With most of us working from home at the moment it’s hard to keep on top of what everyone’s doing, and you really need to have confidence that your people are...

Probably one of the most feared questions in the workplace. For most people, the word ‘feedback’ elicits a fairly reflexive response that tends to lean towards the defence, worry or irritation parts of our psyches. It definitely doesn’t have a good rep, right? And...

Any change in your career – be that a promotion, a lateral move, moving company, quitting and retraining or reducing your working hours to spend more time with family – can be really challenging. Change is hard. That initial shift out of a comfortable...

Get ready for everyone’s favourite time of year! No, not Christmas, it’s end-of-year performance review time! Yee-haaa! We can hear your whoops and cheers from here! Although thankfully some organisations have moved away from the practice of annual or bi-annual...

As we head towards a Christmas election, we’re all looking at the performance and potential of the political parties that could lead us not just into a new decade but a new era for the UK. Whoever gets the job will have an exceedingly difficult task to deal with the...

Last week Melinda Gates pledged 1 billion dollars to fund efforts for gender equality. Her motivation came as the World Economic Forum stated that we are still 208 years away from gender equality in the US. The UK’s timeline for gender equality is a little easier to...