A family member tells us the lengthiest of stories. Their best involved a vivid description of the furniture in their bedroom, to explain where they kept their Will. We learnt the colour of the carpet, the age of the bed (why?), the difference between the wardrobes in their room – subsequently identified as Wardrobe No.… Read More Wardrobe No. 2 . . .
As a leader, you’ll have a responsibility for working hard to develop people. Not just as a one-off, but continually. How? Perhaps, through: quality 1:1s sharing your skills and knowledge securing training for them offering mentoring or coaching giving them access to shadowing and secondment setting objectives reviewing goals and priorities It’s… Read More Not interested?
How do you differentiate between idle chatter and an important business, work-related conversation? I think it’s simple. And I’m guessing you know the answer too. Well, I’ve been encouraging people to talk to each other . . . to hold some quality conversations . . . to talk to each other about leadership . .… Read More Getting conversations about leadership started . . .
I’ve had an epiphany. One I thought worth sharing. It’s about listening. Really listening. It happened a few weeks ago, and since then I’ve been testing the waters just to see if what I’d noticed could really be true. Let me be clear. I’m a trained and qualified coach (with every day still a school… Read More Give in to it
Many years ago I entered into the world of my first higher education studies, to be told there was an expectation that I’d have to keep a synoptic review. Ah, if only they’d thought to speak in a little plainer English to the novice scholar that I was, I’d have known they meant a diary,… Read More Seeing it clearly . . .
“Too much of a good thing is wonderful” Mae West
For my recent holiday . . . I texted my credit card company to alert them to my spending, and my ‘phone provider to say I’d be roaming; while I was away, I Tweeted, WordPressed, Linkedined, Googled, What’sApped and TripAdvised; I checked the weather, the news and emails, and posted scheduled Blogs; I went online to confirm transfer… Read More Answers on a postcard?
Modesty prevents me saying too much . . . but someone I know rather well was recently given this feedback: “You are truly a gem in the friendship spectrum” I’m curious. What opportunity do you have today to tell someone how you really feel?
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