You may know I love to run workshops on how to identify, recognise and use your strengths, so that you can meet your personal and professional goals. In these workshops, we learn how to spot and stretch strengths. We do this with volunteer demonstrations by following their energy. In addition, I show how to turnround a weakness. Anyone who runs…
As we enter tough new national measures in the UK, I wonder how much we have learnt about our lives and how to live them well since our first lock down in March. It’s almost as if the first seven months of the global pandemic has been a practice run. A practice run to help us prepare for the long…
Are you ever tempted to behave like this with your boss? When you feel that you have no other option and all you can do is silently disagree? I saw this flag in my recent visit to Budapest. By taking out the middle of the flag, the picture of the hammer and sickle, Hungary was able to signal discontent and…
Do you remember the nuclear accident at Chernobyl, back in 1986? You may remember that after the fire fighting, a sarcophagus was placed over the reactor to contain the radiation and stop it spreading. Did you also know that, thirty years on, a second, additional enclosure was needed? There was an increasing risk that the tomb would collapse and fail….
Cultural difference is everywhere. How can we spot it early and work with it, rather than trip over it at a later stage? For me, cultural difference starts with a feeling. The first moment when you notice that something is different. It can be like a jolt or a shock to the system, when you realise that it’s not what…
The test question asked “What is your favourite film or book”. After twenty seconds of countdown on the screen, I had two minutes to give my answer to the video link with no other other human contact except an inverse picture of me. This was my practice session for an autonomous video interview. It was part of a recruitment process…