Did you watch the Barbie film? Is it what you expected? In recent conversation in our EDI group, our reactions ranged from we really, really didn’t like the film, to we loved it! Discussing the film was a contrast from heavy weight books like Invisible Women, Fix The System Not The Women, and The Authority Gap, and helped most of…
I have just returned from a two week trekking holiday in Madagascar. I’m delighted to say I reached the top of Peak Boby, the second highest mountain there, standing proud at 2658m! My delight is not because I found it easy, but because I found it hard. It was a real challenge! Peak Boby is a granite outcrop and a…
You already have way too much to do. Your boss phones, stops at your desk or emails you to ask for more. What can you do? One thing you might want to do is say “no”. Or a slightly more sophisticated “I can do this if we stop or slow down that”. But you have a gut feel that neither…
Some of us love networking, some of us hate it. Whatever your reaction, unless you want to rely on the “work hard, and hope for the best” approach, some additional ideas for exploring your career options might help. Purposefully connecting and holding conversations to find out how attractive a new role, organisation, or sector might be for your career progression…
In many of the leadership programmes I run I ask the group of participants to line up; one end of the line being “I am not comfortable with delegation” and the other end being “I can always improve, but I think I delegate well”. I ask participants to talk to a neighbour near them on the line about why they…
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…