Photo by Walls.io on Unsplash We've all seen them – the mission statements gathering dust on a wall, the values hidden away on a website...

Photo by MK Hamilton on Unsplash I used to be really suspicious of NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming). I did a half day’s course - years...

Meetings have never been so unpopular. Who hasn’t sat in an uncomfortable chair watching a tedious Powerpoint as you think of all the...

It might seem a crazy question – it’s an amount way higher than any of us can ever get our hands on, after all - but your answer will...

My miniature schnauzer Orwell has been teaching me a thing or two about life, and about myself, lately. I've been having some issues with...

This is an exciting day for me. Not only am I having my hair ‘done’ this afternoon for the first time in over six months, but I also...

Photo by "My Life Through A Lens" on Unsplash My clients often talk about their CV with a kind of dread. They know they should really...

Photo by Darren Halstead on Unsplash Spoiler alert: you don’t actually want to be any of these, but it’s likely that you slip into one or...

Photo by Eduardo Goody on Unsplash This is my favourite question of all time. I ask it of myself and my clients every day (it’s even...

Photo by Danielle MacInnes on Unsplash I thought, back in those heady days of December, that my first blog post in 2021 would be a...

Photo by Austin Chan on Unsplash What is personal branding? Well it’s not all about a logo, colour palette or typeface (although those...

A review of Derren Brown: How to be happier - in conversation with the How to Academy (25th November, 2020) Photo by Artem Beliaikin on...

This week I’ve been planning a virtual team building session and so I thought I’d share some of the best (and simplest) ideas I found...

As a consultant or freelancer you have limited time and don’t want to spend large amounts of it creating content that isn’t effective....

Eleventy billion people have now watched Simon Sinek’s TED talk ‘Start with why – how great leaders inspire action.’ And many will have...

Even two weeks ago we would have thought the headlines that we’re seeing every day now were far-fetched and highly improbable. I’ve had...

There are no limiting factors here - all personality types are capable of doing a brilliant job of virtually any task, but will approach

You’ve spent the last 15 odd years building a career that you actually feel proud of. On the whole, you like your job, and the people you...

Admitting and embracing failure is a very on-trend topic at the moment, and rightly so, but our predominant culture is slow to catch up....

Photo by Roi Dimor on Unsplash When I started my coaching training, the hardest thing I found initially was to learn to just shut up. I’d...