Resources and Insights

Find a wealth of resouces here, from a check list to help you prepare to give feedback at work to articles to help you think differently about your work relationships and how you can navigate your work (and non-work!) life…

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Act like a director (whether you are one or not!)

I’ve been having lots of conversations recently with clients who are newly in director roles or interviewing for posts at […]

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When being a manager drove me to tears…

Many years ago, on a December Thursday at 8:30am I was sitting in a Café Nero for a pre-work coffee […]

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How easily do you accept praise?

Oh that’s very generous of you It was nothing – don’t worry about it Oh you’re too kind If you’ve […]

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How & when to hire a coach

Every year I do a guest lecture at Sheffield University Business School as part of their postgraduate HR course. Actually […]

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Three tools to empower you in troubling times

I’m writing this after a couple of days of increasingly upsetting headlines, because there’s nothing to trigger our feelings of […]

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Lessons from a pre-pandemic move to hybrid working

Back in 2013 the organisation I worked for moved offices. It was a smaller space, with fewer desks. The thinking […]

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Protect your dance space wisely… and I’m not talking about social distancing

What with the scale and scope of change to our daily lives, the worries about ours and others’ health and […]

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Adventures in courgettes or working out what’s really important

Do you get stuck making choices between A and B, forgetting that there are many different paths? Some of which […]

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Leadership development: what is it and do I need it?

I’ve not posted for a while, because I’ve been beyond busy. I know that’s a kind of badge of honour […]

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