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…
Do you have too much to do at the moment? Currently I have 24 professionals completing reflective workbooks each week as part of their “Stepping Into Leadership” programme. It’s a new and explicit role as learner for them needing extra time in their diary, and needs to be planned in. Priorities are important. You may recall a previous blog of…
Whether it is the police, firefighters or whatever sector coming next, misogynistic, racist and homophobic workplaces are being exposed with more data, more evidence and more voices in the room than ever before. I’d like to say that we are getting traction on solutions, although progress seems to be breath-takingly slow. Awareness is surely the start of any change though,…
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