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Top Tips for Dealing with What Work (and life!) Throw Your Way Practising GratitudeI am generally not good at habits. I enjoy variety and spontaneity too much. But most nights I write in a gratitude journal that I keep by my bed. I capture 3 things I’m grateful for from that day.  About 7 years […]

(Is there a better way to navigate through tricky transitions?) I’ve recently returned from the UK, where I dropped my firstborn child – now an adult of 18 years old – at university. She was so excited and ready to start her own life; I was so excited for her, but it was also tinged

Aren’t the summer holidays a marvellous idea? Holidays feel like a chance to “unfold my brain”.  Instead of working in a tight, pressured ball, my head gets aired out — rather like hanging a duvet in the sun. Returning from an extended break, I have more perspective on my responsibilities and my priorities.  When I

Can we fly into the future today? I am an unabashed Harry Potter fan.  In The Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter suddenly finds that he can no longer run through the wall to access Platform 93/4 at King’s Cross Station.  That denies him access to the train to Hogwarts School – and all magical life he’s meant to

“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it,” said Henry David Thoreau. An understanding of human character strengths can help ensure we spend our lives more wisely and well… The conversations I have with coaching clients often turn to questions of resilience. However ambitious, successful, powerful or wealthy my clients may

How can we rethink growth from the Covid crisis?   Year-on-Year Dramatic Difference fell off a bit of a cliff in Q1 2020.  Normally I’d be embarrassed to say that publicly, because it would be due to some mis-management on my part.  But the fact is that the world slammed on the brakes in February/March. It was

How can managers keep coaching quick and simple? There are many clever and complex frameworks for coaching.  A Google search for “Executive Coaching models” yields over 38 million results.  But even the best models can be hard to remember when you’re a busy executive simply trying to take a coaching approach to workplace conversation. At its barest

Coaching through the crisis — what helps? May 4-10 is International Coaching Week.  We’ll be sharing a variety of tools and techniques with you throughout the week. I’ve spent the past months giving away free hours of virtual coaching to clients past and present – and to their contacts, clients and colleagues in need of help.  It’s

When I first studied counseling skills, the course ended with our group of students and teachers going on a weekend retreat. While there we each had to create and share our personal coat of arms. Each was topped with a single word to represent our deepest value or belief.  My word was COURAGE. I’m no warrior: I’m

Discover your sense of ‘flow’ and avoid ‘running on empty’. Sometimes, when I was a kid, dad would make birthday/Christmas gifts for me in his shed. He trained as an electrical engineer. One year (I must have been about 8) he gave me this contraption made up of parts he’d salvaged from broken-down bits of