#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 ...
#cipdnap15 – The serious business of happiness for increasing engagement and maintaining a healthy organisation
Some people bring happiness when they walk into a room, some people bring happiness when they leave. Choose which one you want to be.
The pursuit of happiness in the workplace: Do happier people work harder?
Nic Marks (Happiness Research Methodologist and Author, The Happiness Manifesto) speaking at European HR Directors Business Summit 2015 in Barcelona.
Enhancing business outcomes by developing coaching skills in Leaders
A session at the CIPD L&D Show 2015 by Sean Kent (Freebridge) @SeanMKent , David Young (BT), chaired by Gill White (CIPD) @gillwhite4
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 ...
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 ...
Be grateful – Real stories of gratitude in Britain
This 30-minute documentary from The Jubilee Centre for Characters and Virtues is well worth watching, and contains a great mix of real stories of gratitude interspersed with an academic reflection on ...
Victim to Victor
How do we know if we have a victim in our midst during our coaching interactions? In fact, what do we really mean by the term 'victim'? We are used to hearing this in connection to crime, but in coach ...
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 ...
Advanced #3GoodThings
The habit of identifying 3 Good Things each day is a powerful habit from Positive Psychology and can be impactful. This post details a simple way to extend the habit into something that has much great ...
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 ...
Positive Psychology in Application
Positive Psychology isn't the same as Positive Thinking (where we try to look on the bright side of everything). I've noted some of my learnings from a recent workshop called 'Positive Psychology in A ...