The themes which came out of my research have neatly grouped themselves into ten, so I’m going to write ten parts in the Discovery Series. In this blog I’m going to talk about: Definitions, benefits of self-awareness and behaviour (good and bad)Reflection DEFINITIONS:...
As I got ready for work this morning I was thinking about whether the store my husband manages will be covering up the non-essentials and taking them off sale, following the lockdown announcement yesterday. That got me thinking about what is essential and...
What will you do differently in 2021? I’m going to read more books. In true planner style, I’ve started to write a list of the books that I want to read. I’m up to June so far! January Simon Sinek: The Infinite Game: How Great Businesses Achieve Long-Lasting Success...
It’s been another day of learning. A colleague shared a link to a podcast on our Trust’s leaders’ network WhatsApp group and being as it was Sunday, the comfy chair was vacant and the clouds were making patterns in the sky, I decided to sit down with a cup of tea and...
It’s a Saturday afternoon and I couldn’t find replays of the A-Team anywhere. So I scoured YouTube for Simon Sinek's Book Club and watched the first chapter of live questions about The Infinite Game In the hour-long session Simon said something which really struck a...
2020 has been the year of lockdown-learning. I finished writing up my research in early autumn so my weekends became uncharacteristically free. I threw myself into learning, discovering new people and exploring what the modern philosophers wnd thought leaders were...
I wish you..... Happiness and good health Motivation and stamina Curiosity and creativity Kindness and calm Self awareness and resilience Effective leadership
It’s not the year we expected it to be. We had high hopes for the first year of the 20s but it’s brought in to sharp focus our needs, wants, tolerances and priorities. It’s highlighted inequalities in the way we treat our fellow human beings and it’s shone a spotlight...
I recently stumbled on a talk about motivation by Dan Pink. It was quite a revelation. Science says that rewards and incentives are actually demotivators. But business continues to use rewards and incentives as motivators. Pink has discovered that what actually...
In bringing all my research findings together, I developed the Corollary Model. It corralled the questionnaire findings, interview findings and literature comparison together into one glorious triangle! I discovered that there was a relationships between...
I wanted to know if people who were identified as effective leaders had more self-awareness than people who were identified as ineffective leaders. I also wanted to know if the answer would be the same across the five job levels of the Welsh public service. I looked...
As the year draws to a close, I’ve been reflecting on the changes we’ve been through. We’ve been through fear, loss and sadness. We’ve been agile, we’ve flexed and become virtual. We’ve had division, incredulity and unacceptance alongside kindness, compassion and...