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Listen to the Room

Listen to the Room

When you are tasked with leading a room it’s as much your role to listen to what is being said as to what isn’t being said. The things that people aren’t saying can often be that very important missing piece of the jigsaw that allows understanding to happen. That...

Importance of induction and togetherness

It’s the end of my first week in my new role. I know. A whole week!!!! So, what are my reflections? Induction: I’ve been onboarded and involved in onboarding others into news roles for over 20 years. This induction has been the best. Why? It’s focused on how we do...

Sharing Learning

I love sharing knowledge and information for the furtherance of learning and innovation! You share with someone and they share with you. You debate and discuss. You laugh and you cry. You might even argue a bit. Then all of a sudden the little idea you both came with...

Learning, Happiness & Nurturing

It’s Friday and I’m feeling in reflective mood because I’ve realised 3 very important things: Sharing learning is important. As you climb the career ladder your experiences, good or bad, shape what you do and how you do it. To be in a role that allows you to draw from...

Office Fit!

I had a thought….. Going to work is tiring. I don’t mean in a burnout kind of way, I mean more in a fitness kind of way. We all recognise that we spent two years walking no further than the circumference of our house five or six times a day, with the odd dog walk here...

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...

Reflections on my time as a Civil Servant

Reflections on my time as a Civil Servant

Today I say goodbye to my amazing, supportive and clever colleagues at the Department of Health and Social Care. Its been a great experience and I’ve grown a lot. Here are my reflections and some things I’ve learnt… The language is different. The Civil Service (CS)...

Strengths and values for career planning

Strengths and values for career planning

I’ve been talking to a few people about their career plans and thoughts about where they go next, and I realised, I might not have told you about an exercise I did last year that really opened my eyes and switched on a lightbulb. I worked with the brilliant Mike...

Work Life Balance: remember to get excited!

Work Life Balance: remember to get excited!

Tomorrow we are off to the Goodwood Festival of Speed. If you’ve ever been or you’re a petrol head like me, you’ll know just how exciting this is! Except I’m not excited. I’d forgotten all about it. My husband had to remind me three times last week that ‘no you can’t...

Leadership at the Goodwood Festival of Speed

Leadership at the Goodwood Festival of Speed

I went to the Goodwood Festival of Speed this year with one eye on the leadership of the event. I came away with 3 thoughts… Impeccable planning. This is a massive event that runs like clockwork and is incresibly impressive. It has a huge array of cars and bikes to...