I am half way through achieving the eyesight of my choice. Bespoke, designer vision – achieved by lens replacement surgery, followed by laser treatment – to give me the optimum blended vision, selected to work the best for me, for the rest of my life. Wow! For four decades and more I have been severely short sighted (eleven and nearly…
“Do introduce yourself to the person next to you, we’ve already had one wedding from our courses and we’re really rather proud of that.” This was the opening remark from the two women trainers on the Driver Awareness Training I went to a little while back. As a slow learner (if not driver!), this was my second experience of such…
One of the things Steve Jobs said is “We’re here to put a dent in the Universe”. It did seem he was able to encourage the deep aspiration of people at Apple to be part of something truly wonderful where they could bring their best – to make their own particular dent in the Universe. As I gain traction with…
For our wedding anniversary weekend, we went to Beverley, East Yorkshire, which is near to Hull and the Humber Bridge. We were able to meet our daughter, Hannah, which was a joy! We also caught up with a former client, now colleague and friend of mine, Alison, who lives nearby, and met her husband Daniel and daughter Alethea for the…
“They made me, they decided, they excluded me” – do you ever use this language about your colleagues at work, in your head, if not out loud? Recently a friend asked me “So how do you stop being a victim?”.This was after a long talk about her experiences with her family over the Christmas period, where family patterns had been…
Recently I attended an assessment day, as part of finding out more about becoming an associate of a leadership development company. I gave a presentation on “Developing a strengths based culture to improve performance”. It felt very me, innovative, leading edge, experimental, not yet quite proven, at least not on any large scale basis that I am aware of, yet…