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Welcome to March and welcome to Spring! On the 1st March I celebrated St David's Day, (the patron saint of Wales), with a daffodil pinned to my lapel. 19th was Mother's Day in the UK, with a FaceTime call to my mum and fond thoughts of my mother in law who passed away...
This is definitely not the book I expected it to be. Having read a few books over the last year I have become accustomed to business books being set out more like a story with a journey taking you from start, to middle, to the end. But this book isn’t like that. It’s...
I wanted to read this book to know a bit more about the thoughts and ideas of the fabulous Megumi Miki who recently joined me in an interview for my podcast. I also wanted to read it to better understand myself as a quiet person (QP) and my place in the leadership...
I really enjoyed my conversation with Jeroen Kraaijenbrink in Episode 6 of Series 3 of The Knowing Self Knowing Others Podcast, where we talked about self-awareness, leadership and strategy. Here here's my Top Takeaways review of our discussion.......
I was joined by the wonderful Amy Gandon in Episode 5 of Series 2 of The Knowing Self Knowing Others Podcast. Here are my Top Takeaways from what Amy had to say....... To be self aware, you need to acquire a birds eye view of yourself to experience yourself from the...
Welcome to my February review. It may be a short month, but we sure can pack a lot in, can't we? For a little month, there's been a lot going on.... The Knowing Self Knowing Others Podcast On 13th February, my conversation with Síle Walsh went live in Episode 4 of...
It's a little yellow book of wisdom! The Legendary Quest, Kulkarni & Yoo This book sets out all the things you need to do to live a successful life. One of the things you need to do to achieve that is develop your self-awareness, which is where my interest...
We so often have thorny, tricky and challenging problems in work. So, what's the best way to go about solving them? Talk it out and transfer it from from inside your mind where it's huge, jumbled and complex. Moving from thoughts to words helps the mind think...
One of the Delphic maxims (engraved on the sacred temple of Apollo at Delphi in Greece), and probably the most well know is “Know Thyself”. There are many interpretations, but you could say in a nutshell that it is about reflecting and developing a greater understanding/awareness of who you are, could be and/or who you ought to be, and in turn an awareness of others and your relationship towards them and they to you. Throughout her career, Dr Nia Thomas, has been interested in the working relationship: the dynamics between people and the impact both good and bad relationships have on individuals and their ability to effectively deliver their work. This led her to develop an interest in self-awareness, leader effectiveness and leadership at all levels which became the focus of her doctoral research. In this episode she discusses the experiences which led to her interest in self-awareness, leader effectiveness and leadership at all levels. She further talks about the 3 layers she sees as embodying self-awareness – reflection, recognition and regulation and touches on the difference between someone who just manages (the focus is on their technical skills) and others who manage but have self-awareness (whether it is inherent or one of the skills they have developed).
TEDx London Women was absolutely excellent! We heard about… * untapped potential of pension power* how one woman took on a corporate body and their lawyers, and won* the collective power of community at Grenfell* that trans-joy is about the mundane, being individual...