All of us experience feelings of hurt from time to time, based on what people say about us and to us. But some of us find it harder to deal with than others. No doubt you've heard the saying “sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt...
Do you feel guilty when you carve out a bit of time just for you? Do you find it hard to prioritise your own thinking space and development at work, even though you’re championing it for your colleagues? If so, you’re not alone. The biggest challenge...
I'm often perceived to be a strong and resilient person. But, like everyone, there are times when I don't feel as though my resilience is intact. Understanding ourselves is a life-long endeavour. In this article I share what I've learnt about myself so far when it...
Life is punctuated by endings. How you experience an ending can have a profound effect on how you start the next beginning. A good ending brings the disparate elements of an experience together. It resolves conflict, and leaves you feeling satisfied. ...
There is such a thing as an over complicated life. This article explores how it happens and how to untangle.
Have you ever noticed how often we use metaphors about our bodies, when we're talking about decision-making? Our hunches, blind spots and frequent references to gut instinct suggest that we're truly still wired, as our ancestors were, to make decisions guided by...
If you’re in the market for coaching cards, you may be perplexed by the choices on offer. There are cards you can hold in your hand, others that you look at on a screen. Some have pictures, some have words, some have both. Some of the pictures are...
If you have ever been to a circus or zoo you may wonder, when you see the elephant enclosure, why it is that the huge old elephants that stand some 10 feet high, but the tiny baby elephants that only come up to your knees are tethered with exactly the same size chain...
Could eating polos or being a woman damage your career? Bizarre though those two things sound, they are both aspects of organisational culture, that pervasive, sometimes invisible, set of rules which governs “how things are done around here”. Let me...
Not all career change comes easily, even for those with a self-directed mindset. Executive coaching maximises efforts and reaps dividends. During your early career moves no doubt you knew when you had peaked? You'd had an accelerated learning curve, performed for a...