Over the last couple of weeks, as I’ve been commuting back and forth to the office, I’ve been capitalising on the lack of internet access and reading this really rather excellent book by Alison Smith ‘Can’t see the wood for the trees? Landscaping your life to get back...
It’s the very last day of January already, so here’s the last of my watchwords for 2022. Watchword number 10 is learning Learning is a friend of knowledge, but it’s not the same. Knowledge is active and learning is pro-active. Learning is about going out there to seek...
Watchwords number 9 is care Care seems to me to be an umbrella term for putting others before yourself and behaving in a way that makes human relationships effective. Care is about emotional intelligence, understanding, sympathy, empathy, respect, compassion,...
Watchwords number 8 is innovation From the digital explosion in virtual communication to the exponential increase in online services, covid has, we must admit, been a generator of transformational change. When we reflect on the last two years, the things we had...
Watchword number 7 for 22 is knowledge. As leaders we have a responsibility to increase our own knowledge and the knowledge of others. The world is awash with information, research, data and opinion that helps to build up our knowledge base. Everything is accessible...
Watchword number six for 2022 is acceptance. Acceptance is a friend of tolerance. It’s about knowing what’s within our gift to #change and within our #power to #influence. It’s about knowing when to hold ‘em, when to fold ‘em, when to walk away and when to run. It is...
Watchword number five for 2022 is tolerance. For me tolerance has two parts: learning when to listen and not speak, and developing the confidence to speak and be heard We are often too quick to judge. When colleague come forward with ideas that are different,...
My fourth watchword for 2022 is connection When I think about connection, three things come to mind: home, work and covid. We need connections in our personal life to nourish us and feed our soul. It’s a fundamental human need to connect and an essential component in...
The third of my watchwords for 22 is kindness. Sometime last year I stumbled on the term Intelligent Kindness, which has its foundations within healthcare. This article describes is eloquently: “Intelligent kindness, then, is not a soft, sentimental feeling or action...
The second of my watchwords for 2022 is purpose. When I blogged my reflection of 2021, the word that captured it best was ‘purpose’. In looking back, I realised that purpose helped me get-up and get-on, during a time of social isolation and profound uncertainty. My...