Should you socialise with your colleagues outside work? (BBC Business, 21 December 2016) discusses how we rate the people we work with, and whether they might be seen as friends or simply acquaintances. The choice, of course, should be the individual’s – as long as people at work can be respectful to each other and… Read More Always on your side . . .
I was sharing with a confidante how much I admire the value of honesty. I waxed lyrical about how it’s the value I prize above all others, how I struggle with anyone who’s dishonest, how I don’t deal very well with people at work who I can’t trust because they’ve been known not to tell… Read More Questions, questions . . .
Really? Are you sure? Might there be another option?
Over Christmas, I played a gloriously silly game with my family where we had to guess the words or phrase on a card just from looking at an image trying to convey their meaning. It was an innocent, funny family moment, and we each had our own talents and preferences that shone through and enabled us… Read More Can you do nothing?
“Wait a minute, I’m thinking, was this another one of those conversations where what is meant and what is being said are not the same thing?” Peter Hedges (What’s Eating Gilbert Grape)
“There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.” Michel de Montaigne
In a most wonderful episode of The Listening Project (BBC Radio 4, 04 January 2017), two sisters (aged 13 and 11 years) share their amazingly positive viewpoint on life. Speaking about a background that has also touched me personally, their words were a joy. If you get 5 minutes (and that’s all you’ll need), do… Read More The best thing . . .
How to accept yourself for who you are? See what the experts say – BBC News, 14 December 2016.
Cunningham’s Law: “The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, it’s to post the wrong answer.” A wonderful concept. I’m going to apply it this year to challenge myself to give the wrong answer to questions that will no doubt trouble me . . . maybe it… Read More Getting it wrong . . .
I’ve been on some amazing continuing professional development recently. It challenged some of my previous thinking, gave me a chance to indulge in creativity (for heaven’s sake, I even spent one morning colouring!), and grew my knowledge at a very welcome stage of my career. My fellow practitioners on my course were simply amazing, and… Read More Learning from experience . . .
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