If you have the right heart motivation as a leader, then you will be looking for ways you can become more effective. How many times have you found yourself in situations where you wonder how it is that you got there? It could be a conversation with a colleague that turns out badly, or being …
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This last weekend I had the privilege of facilitating a day away for a local charity. What I love about doing these events is seeing the clarity that comes out for the participants on such days. When the questions and discussion have been used to unearth things and make visible some of the things that …
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What do you do when you have a free weekend at the end of March? What I do is go hill walking in the Lake District with my best friend. Following the maxim that there is no such thing as the wrong weather only wearing the wrong clothing, we set out to walk and climb …
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The gap in producing insights the last three weeks is because I have been on my travels, and it made me wonder: do you ever make assumptions about things based on the culture you are from? Being back in India was a great reminder of the cultural things I had forgotten. Delayed from returning due …
Today I thought I would draw the curtain back a little on how coaches work with you to succeed as a business owner, leader, or just in life. People get into running a business for all sorts of reasons. Perhaps one of your reasons was sovereignty over your time. But as time goes on it …
I don’t come across many people who don’t fear failure. The truth is the more I discover about people who have had extraordinary success the more I find people who have had to go through many failures to get there. It seems that, in order to succeed you need to adopt the view that failure …
As someone who has needed to wear glasses since the age of 9 you would think I would be used to any changes in the eye department. In my early 20’s I switched to contact lenses which I found much better. Of late though shorter distance have become a problem (apparently age related) and now …
I have spent many years thinking about whether what we say has an influence on what happens. My conclusion is that it does. I cannot choose what happens to me, but I can choose how I react to it. It’s here, in our reactions, that we have to learn to speak differently. It starts by …
A man once came across an emperor moth cocoon and decided to take it back to his house to see what it would look like when it emerged. One day a small hole appeared at the base of the cocoon and the moth began to emerge. Some hours later only the head and a part …
Happy New Year here we are the start of 2021! It seems we are not out of the woods yet as far as the pandemic is concerned. Christmas may have been very different for many of us this year, probably not what we hoped for! Courage may be in short supply! Have you ever noticed …
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