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Good Practice or Best Practice?

Best practice or good practice? What is your preference? I once had a manager that referred to good practice because he said that good could always get better. I like that and I understand it These days I’m hearing the phrase best practice far more frequently. But, in...

Why Part 3 – Working on it!

Why Part 3 – Working on it!

This week I joined another Simon Sinek Inc. workshop about Find Your Why. Since the last workshop I’d played around with my Why. I’d also started reading The Infinite Game. It changed everything. When you’re working on forming your Why, reflect on where you’ve come...

Harnessing January Motivation

Christmas is an ending and the new year is a beginning. Just like every life cycle; when one thing ends another thing begins. But when you add a pandemic into the mix the wheel is thrown off its axis and nothing is quite the same. As I wrote the other day, I expected...

Discovery series – Part 7

Discovery series – Part 7

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:...

Leadership, Needs and Wants

Leadership, Needs and Wants

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...

2021: The Book List 1-6

2021: The Book List 1-6

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...

Leadership, Value and the Infinite Game

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...

Leaders Go First

Leaders Go First

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...

Thought Leaders in Review

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...