“We’re just never going to get on,” a client said to me recently about her boss. As soon as she said it, I spotted a limiting belief – given away by the word ‘never’. “I’ve tried everything,” […]
In conversations I’ve had with clients who are overwhelmed, stressed and too busy, we almost always discover that they struggle to say no. It’s almost become an automatic habit to say yes to any request – […]
The other day I was discussing with a client how she could explain her preferred communication style to her new boss. She has an introversion preference and was worried that he would misinterpret her quietness as […]
Have you ever felt out of kilter with some of the people around you – be they work colleagues, friends or family? Does it seem that the way they approach or think about things can be a bit odd? It […]
One of the most common issues I hear leaders talking about is delegation. Either they want to do more of it but feel they can’t, or they don’t do it even though they could. In a […]
I’ll let you into a little secret. I’ve had an issue with confidence lately. Not in my ability to do my job, but in putting myself ‘out there’ in order to build my business working with […]
How good are you at coaching your team and colleagues? Asked this question, many managers will say ‘pretty good’. However, a study published in the Harvard Business Review showed that managers consistently over-estimated their own ability […]
Everyone is talking about returning to the office and how it will work when some people are in the office, some are not, and some are both. Hybrid working, like the words ‘furlough’, ‘double-jabbed’ and ‘covid-secure’, […]
You only have to listen to the news or read social media to see that there are so many issues where people are trying to persuade others round to their way of thinking. Whether its politicians, […]
Over the years, I’ve noticed that many of us (including myself) have tended to focus on our areas of weakness – the bits of our job that we need to get better at in order to […]
Whenever we used to visit my grandma as a child, my mum would always remind us before we arrived: “Don’t talk about politics, religion or the royal family” – a guiding principle that has influenced my […]
