‘What Can I Do?’: Empowering Ourselves

‘What Can I Do?’: Empowering Ourselves

This year has brought many challenges. Including a new one I hadn’t envisaged.   The technology terrors.   Back in the very early spring, setting up meetings could bring with it previously unentertained anxieties. No sooner would I pop a virtual appointment...
(Self)-Believing in Innovation

(Self)-Believing in Innovation

These last few months have seen innovation and adaptation on a grand scale. Who would have thought, in those hazy days B.C. (before Covid), back at the very start of the year, what changes we might see?   In just six months, companies have evolved in ways perhaps...
Freeing Choice Through Non-Judgement

Freeing Choice Through Non-Judgement

A linguistic misunderstanding created much amusement over the weekend – and a memory to treasure too. My daughter had asked my husband: ‘What do you want for your birthday?’ ‘A lie-in,’ he’d replied, with the weariness of one who hasn’t slept properly in five years....
Finding work / life harmony

Finding work / life harmony

‘Work life balance’ is something that we have talked about for years – how can we achieve that perfect equilibrium between our professional and personal life? It is a question that has come into sharp focus now as what we have thought about as perhaps entirely...
Creating Connections Remotely

Creating Connections Remotely

Out of sight most definitely isn’t out of mind and with more and more staff working remotely, authentic, sensitive, and effective engagement by managers is vital. For many employees, working from home will be an extension of normal working patterns – whilst for...