The instructions for my recent walking trip to Sri Lanka included buying leech socks. I didn’t even know what these were! Sri Lanka is beautiful to visit. The warmth of the people, the history, culture, landscapes, flora, wildlife and food, are all amazing. But leeches in wet mountains in monsoon season are something else. On our first full walking day,…
In what way is psychological safety important? As part of her PhD, Professor Amy Edmondson found that, counter intuitively, high performing teams made more mistakes, and have more errors than others. Let me say this one more time. High performing teams make more mistakes. How can this be a good thing, and add to safety and performance? In her TED…
In facilitation skills training I ran for an organisation last week I asked participants to step further into the authority they hold in their work, and we worked together for them to use this with more comfort and clarity. Chairing key meetings across their sector and industry, they are keen to step up and use a wider range of facilitation…
In August, my husband Martin, older son Mike and I travelled around nearly all of Ireland for the whole month in our Motorhome. Not only was this a fantastic way to understand more about Irish history, the links with the British and all things in between, it was also a great opportunity to catch up with some of our friends!…
What difference to outcomes does it make? On a VERY hot day last week, I was part of a team of six facilitators supporting an awayday for an organisation of 120 staff. This was their first face to face meeting post pandemic, they have created a mixture of new hybrid professional offerings, recruited many new staff and wanted a clear…
One important thing my colleague and co-founder Iain Smith introduced to our Women in Transport Lead programme, was the work of Shirzad Chamine, and his TED talk “Know Your Inner Saboteurs”. When you have a quiet moment, this is well worth twenty minutes of your time. There is also the free on-line saboteur questionnaire which you can complete; we use…
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