Ops or Strategy? Hi everyone, I talk about introversion and extraversion a lot but another aspect of our personality that Carl Jung identified, that you may recognise from Myers Briggs profiling is the perceiving function of sensing and intuition. People who prefer sensing are more likely to trust information that is present and tangible, that […]
Are You a Shirley Valentine or Marigold? Hi everyone, There are a couple of programmes on TV at the moment that I’m really enjoying; the Shirley Valentines are a group of (celebrity-ish!) ladies in Greece who are taking time out to rethink their lives, not just about romance but other things too (on ITV) and […]
It’s All About You Hi everyone, If you’ve read my blogs recently you’ll know that I feel we’re becoming disconnected as a society and workforce, and are looking after each other less and less. My long term ambition is that people, and especially employers will start to recognise the value of taking the time to […]
Do You Really Care? Hi everyone, I was in a supermarket café last week and the guy that served me was very pleasant but after he’d taken my order, someone who I think might have been his Line Manager asked how we was and he said “I’m dying” and coughed, the germs from which I […]
Is There Strength In Showing Vulnerability? Hi everyone, Sometimes as women in business we can feel that we have to act like men to be taken seriously and get ahead. (Gents, please bear with me, I do have a point!). I did it myself in the banking world, I banged my fist on the table, […]
Are You Present? Hi everyone, Have you ever driven somewhere, arrived and thought “I’m not sure how I got here”? I think we’ve probably all experienced that at some point; been distracted, driven on auto pilot and then ‘woken up’ on our arrival. Your sub conscious mind is your co-pilot on those occasions. It would […]
How Ya’ll Doing? Hi everyone, I watched a Panorama programme earlier this week about people getting addicted to their Smartphones and social media, with (it said) young people spending up to 18 hours a week on their phones. Not good. Our self esteem is starting to be intrinsically linked to the number of Facebook friends […]
I Think You’re Amazing! Hi everyone, I’ve talked about seeking inspiration from others and using their strength to fuel your own energy before and have been lucky in the last two weeks to be at talks given by two amazing people who have used sport as their method of recovery from major accidents. At both […]
Are You Seeing Things Clearly? Hi everyone, I got new varifocals this week and while I’m not hung up on being 48 I did think the event was an indicator of my increasing age And because I’d heard that people struggle with them I was mindful that I might not take to them straight away. […]
Would You Recruit Your Team? Hi everyone, I was in a meeting earlier this week, talking about some of my frustrations of working in the NHS, which I did for five years. It re-connected me with some of the frustrations of working with people who might never have had to apply for their job and […]
