#cipdnap15 – Building and sustaining personal resilience
I spoke at the CIPD Northern Area Partnership in York on building and sustaining personal resilience, on how we are all different and that people will develop true strength in different ways. I was go ...
Celebrate who you are (Dawn Smedley – True Strength)
Examining some of the themes from the True Strength interview with Dawn Smedley, starting with celebrating who we are: "Sometimes I should just look back and celebrate who I am fundamentally. We all s ...
Dawn Smedley – True Strength
As part of my True Strength project, I'm featuring interviews that dig deep into how people succeed and I was delighted to interview Dawn Smedley of O.C. Tanner alongside her manager Ian Feaver. The i ...
True Strength? Only one person has your success secrets – you
How do you find success secrets? Well, you can't as success depends on who you are and what you want. However, we can find inspiration in real stories of success and I'm working on a project - True St ...
Performance Management role-play
Performance Management is really important but no amount of process will make the right conversations happen. Managers need to be equipped to have great conversations with people. These role-plays pre ...
Leave it out!
There is a time for expansive, creative thinking. And there is a time for editing, for removing things. Sometimes, less is more. Noise detracts.
Will it make the boat go faster?
"Will it make the boat go faster?" proved to be a powerful guiding question that guided the men's coxed eight rowing team to an Olympic Gold Medal. This post looks at just how powerful that question c ...
The Kingfisher Coaching Manifesto
I'm a big fan of having a Manifesto, of having something that makes it really clear what you're here to do, and how you're doing it. Inspired by the Holstee Manifesto, I've created the Kingfisher Coac ...
Look where you’re going!
In dressage, I learned that looking where you want to go is hugely important and I believe that the same principle is important for people, teams, and organisations. Where you look, you go.
Getting Things Done
The multitude of simple decisions each day (what to do with that email, what do do next, what to say yes to and what to say no to) are what makes our visions and goals happen. This article looks at so ...
How I’m doing work that I love
I'm very fortunate in that I really love the work that I do and this blog post attempts to capture the most significant steps in me getting here, in the hope that it might help people who aren't yet l ...