Self-awareness

TOP TAKEAWAYS: Ep 2 with Sally Evans

TOP TAKEAWAYS: Ep 2 with Sally Evans

I had a great conversation with Sally Evans, Organisational Psychologist in episode 2 of The Knowing Self Knowing Others Podcast, all about self-aware leadership. https://open.spotify.com/episode/3d0sdjEwvCKsbo5PwJoj9h?si=UfiGUYK6Ssqba-DWv3rNHA Self aware leadership...

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TOP TAKEAWAYS: Ep 1 with Sarah Metcalfe

TOP TAKEAWAYS: Ep 1 with Sarah Metcalfe

I was delighted that Sarah Metcalfe could join me as the very first guest on my podcast. If you haven't already, you can listen to the episode here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0puprDnXks1kOKlqMYYZOJ?si=FwrR-YVfRCe7Emzepfdrzw Here are my Top Takeaways from our...

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Chalk and Cheese of Leadership

What a weekend it’s been!! House move weekend…. It always seems a good idea at the time, right!?! We experienced two examples of leadership: The supervisor of Trunk Logistics was just brilliant. He was happy to help carry furniture with his team, was quick to step in...

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Challenging People

Challenging People

My husband and I had been chewing the cud about people we’ve worked with over the years and, as is so often the case, the difficult and challenging people came to mind more readily than the great people and the kind people. We’ve both worked with people who have made...

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Watchwords for 22: Care

Watchwords for 22: Care

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,...

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Watchwords for 22: Self-Awareness

Watchwords for 22: Self-Awareness

It’s the end of the first week of 2022 already. How did that happen!? I’m sure you’ll have spent your week planning for the year ahead with one eye on that crucial 31st March date speeding ever closer. In looking forward to the next quarter and year, you’ll remember...

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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...

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BOOK REVIEW – Know  Thyself, Stephen M Fleming

BOOK REVIEW – Know Thyself, Stephen M Fleming

I’ve recently finished this incredibly interesting book. I was drawn to it because of its focus on #selfawareness, of course, but it wasn’t at all written from the perspective I expected! This book talks about the neurology of #selfawareness - literally, what happens...

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BOOK REVIEW –  Insight, Dr Tasha Eurich

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...

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What is Self-Awareness?

What is Self-Awareness?

Take a look at the first in my Knowledge Share video series on YouTube In this video I talk about self-awareness and my three layer definition Click to watch!

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Speak Out for Well-being

Speak Out for Well-being

We’re very good at keeping up appearances and keeping on keeping on. We don’t want to let our colleagues, our families or our friends down. We keep battling on until our batteries are at 4% and flashing red. Organisations are getting better at breaking down this...

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