I got a message that our elderly neighbour wanted her spare key returning. I dug it out and crossed the road to see her. She is in her 90s, increasingly frail and it was very near the beginning of Lockdown 1. She opened the door, relying heavily on her walking stick. Given her age, I kept a good 2m apart….
As part of my Physics degree, I completed eight weeks’ vacation training at the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) at Culham in Oxfordshire at the end of my second year. We were looking at nuclear fusion. The experience didn’t feel like it was going too well – it was allowing me to see that scientific research wasn’t a good…
There are many theories about motivating self and others. At its most simple I think it comes down to one thing. It’s about whether you or the other person want to do it – the work, the task, the goal. If you are the manager of the other person and want them to be motivated and bringing their best to…
Forced positivity is grim, right? The weight of being exceedingly cheerful, upbeat and enthusiastic in all your emails all of the time, can wear the most resilient person down. Is there a different way to gain the action you need from your the person you are emailing? I have been working with groups of people who run international clinical trials…
Have you been to Vision and Values Away Days in your organisation and then wondered what to do next? How to make it real, how to embed it in some way? In a workshop where I was a participant recently, the leadership team were clearly very enthused and wanted input on their draft vision and values from the broader team….
Our family seems to really like Germany – the people, the food and the friendliness really work for us. It was also an opportunity to catch up with both Nina and Melanie, who had been our au pairs on their gap years before going to university. This summer we did a house swap with a lovely family in Bavaria. We…
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