Influence what you can. Here is my daughter Hannah, poised to bungee jump off Victoria Falls Bridge. Over a decade’s worth of ballet lessons came into use, as she consciously held her space and chose her position. Does it feel as positive a choice as this for you, when you enter a courageous conversation? Many, many of my…
Do you have too much information, too many sources of data and too many entangled ideas for your bid? As a bid professional you are only too aware that creating winning themes is a key part of developing a winning solution. A solution that excites your in-house bid evaluators, and then excites your client even more once your bid…
Elephants often get bad press. At their worst, real ones eat hordes, damage landscapes, pull up trees and behave aggressively towards each other and humans if the matriarchal system has broken down. In our teams and workgroups, virtual elephants get bad press too. We talk about “an elephant in the room”, as a code for a problem or difficult…
With continuous pressure and emphasis on technical competence, delivery and deadline, attention to the “softer sides” of leadership can seem a luxury or optional extra. There can be a perception there’s no time for this sort of stuff, or that it’s not important, or that it belongs to someone else, or can wait until another day. In my twenty years…
While visiting the Northern Lights we had a go at snowmobiling. This was a tough new experience for me – practical and physical learning are not my strong suit! The first time we went out we were in a forest area. Six snowmobiles followed our leader/tutor, and my husband Martin and I ended up at the back…
In December we went to Lapland in Finland to see the Northern Lights. It was Martin, my husband’s birthday and he had a long held aspiration to do this, I was keen to go too. We chose carefully: away from light pollution, seven nights to maximise chances, in the Arctic Circle, away from coastal fog. We are also at…
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