Here are my watchwords for 2022…… Self-awareness Purpose Kindness Connection Tolerance Acceptance Knowledge Innovation Care Learning
2021: Finding My Purpose
As we head towards Christmas, I’ve been reflecting on the year that it’s been. One of great highs and awful lows…. a doctorate, a new job, covid restrictions and a family bereavement. So, from all of these things, what is the common nugget of learning that I can draw?...
Still New!
I can’t believe I’ve been in my new job 2 months. At the end of the first month, I reflected on the things that had been important to me, which were: patience, storytelling, confidence, trust and kindness. At the end of this second month, I thought I’d reflect on this...
Spontaneity In Real Life
I’ve been lucky to have been able to make my own choice to go back to the office one day a week since early this year. In doing so, I’ve thought much about what exactly it is that makes face to face contact so very different to online….? As an introvert I’ve enjoyed...
What a newbie needs…
I’ve been in my new job a month today (A MONTH!!) and I thought I should stop, reflect and take stock of the things have been most important to me. Here are my top five most important things… Patience: having people around that have the patience to tell me things, and...
BOOK REVIEW – Insight, Dr Tasha Eurich
Having an interest in self-awareness, I really wanted to read this book. It has a wealth of data, information, case studies and resources in it. I couldn’t believe that for the price of the book alone you had 14 appendices worth of tools to help you assess and develop...
BOOK REVIEW – The 8th Habit, Stephen R Covey
A review of a great book from 2014! Take a look! Click below…
Plan B – Plan Brilliant!
Back in January, I blogged about the necessity of having a Plan B. If you go to my website and search Plan B, it’ll be there at the top of the list I talked about the importance of having a back up plan if your current work plan didn’t well, go to plan! I thought I’d...
Professional Wisdom
I was recently asked what the most important piece of professional advice I’ve ever received had been. I didn’t blink and said there were two things, not one Low and SlowMany years ago, I had a #mentoring session with Alison Ward, a wise Chief Executive and recently...
Contact Prevents Combat?
I managed to dip in to this amazing well-being event today. I caught part of a workshop about Wing Chun martial art, which has links to qigong and Kung fu. The presenter said that it was essential for there to be contact so that parties could be guided by what they...