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Are you confident in your people management skills?
When it comes to managing teams, being good at your job is often only the starting point. The real challenge can come when you're expected...
Coaching challenges your decisions
Have you ever found yourself in a situation that doesn’t feel right… but leaving isn’t really an option? Not because you don’t recognise...
The ABCD of what motivates you
This blog post explains why an analysis of my eating habits is useful (all will be explained, I promise). I also share an executive...
Solutions mindset: checkmate or stalemate?
How would you characterise your mindset? Are you problem-focused or solutions-focused? Do you manage to maintain a strategic,...
Leadership Coaching is Multi-faceted
Many of the people who work with me only see me as their executive coach. This blog post explores how my other roles contribute to my leadership coaching niche.
Inside-out thinking
Do you know what’s wrong with you? Good. Then you probably don’t need a coach. Because coaching isn't about fixing what's wrong, and...
Transformation: in at the deep end
A couple of months ago, a coaching client told me that working with me had been transformative. I was chuffed to bits, but I was...
From Ouch to OK; how to deal with feedback
All of us experience feelings of hurt from time to time, based on what people say about us and to us. But some of us find it harder...
Psychological safety – navigating the muddle in the middle
At the heart of the middle manager experience these days there's a tension between high expectations and limited capacity which creates...
Why seeing green is building resilience
Staying sane, building resilience, call it what you will, we all need strategies to keep ourselves whole and healthy. How else can we push...
Is Done better than Perfect? You bet!
Do you aim, unsuccessfully, for Perfect? If you battle with an inner perfectionist, you know (deep down) that you're not alone. But have...
The value of Me Time
Do you feel guilty when you carve out a bit of time just for you? Do you find it hard to prioritise your own thinking space and...