Resources and Insight

Many of my leadership coaching clients cite email overwhelm as a key source of their stress. Not only that, but in an organisational culture which equates being on top of your emails with effectiveness, it can impair their ability to focus on what really matters. I...

This spring I was asked to write a blog for Third Sector Cafe, a fantastic organisation in Sheffield who supports organisations in the region with workshops and networking. We were discussing running a workshop on tools we might use to help us adapt our leadership...

Are you feeling stuck? Do you need a change? Have you ended up in a job, or organisation, which isn't right for you? Maybe you got the job of your dreams, but five years on you’re ready for something new. I've been talking to clients about career issues, whether in...

'The only thing that is constant is change', said Hericlitus, the Greek philosopher. Two thousand years later, post financial crisis, with technology advancing far quicker than we can keep up with, most of us are grudgingly starting to agree. As individuals we feel...

How well do you listen? I mean REALLY listen? As anyone knows, whether they be coach, client or the most casual watcher of soap operas, we work things out when we talk about them.When I’m in the coaching room, it’s not me working things out, so it’s not me doing the...

Getting to the point where we feel confident giving feedback can be hard. I explore how you can feel in control of those situations, and relationships, that affect you in a negative way. Imagine this scenario, you walk into the kitchen at work and you meet the one...

I was thrilled to be asked to write a guest blog for Castle Associates in December 2013. They offer expert legal advice in the field of grievance, disciplinary and redundancy, both for businesses and individuals. Thank you to Nader at Castle Associates for...

How can a simple change in the way you talk to yourself result in a calmer, happier, you? A word that I hear a lot in, and out of, the coaching room is 'should'. Whilst there's a time and place for 'should' - I should look left and right before crossing the road, for...

Having not intended to write a blog at all, I was quite excited at the reaction to my first blog post about feeling stuck. I received some insightful feedback from Helen Caton-Hughes, a coach I hold in great esteem, who said some lovely things about my weather vane...

Back in 2013 I was embarking on a journey to create a coaching culture at VSO, where I was Learning & Development Manager at the time. The way VSO works to effect change through volunteers struck me as having many similarities with a coaching approach and that led...