
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 ...

Feedback would happen all the time if we spoke the truth with positive intent
Feedback would happen all the time if we spoke the truth with positive intent. My contribution to the #FeedbackCarnival

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 ...

HRevent15 – How the Red Arrows develop a high performing team
My blog post on a session at #hrevent15 where Jas Hawker shared his experiences as Red Arrows team leader, looking at what we can learn from those experiences to develop really high performing teams.

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 ...

Performance Management is broken? OK, what do we do about it?
There are a myriad of articles, blog posts and research reports suggesting that performance management is broken. Something that is of vital importance to people and organisations is often done quite ...

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 ...