“Johnny is useless, he needs coaching”

The power of re-framing perspectives about beliefs!

01/06/2022

One of the many artful skills of being a coach is supporting our client’s to shift their disempowering perspectives into more empowering ones! There are always so many and varied ways of re-framing perspectives: different stories, beliefs and experiences we can choose to…

Well-being is ‘being well’

15/05/2022

Well-being is a current popular topic - ‘trending’, with increasing recognition that personal energy is a finite resource and dis-ease is not a random name but a description of a symptom, a visible sign from our body that all is not well within it. This suggests that we…

Frank the Frog and your Career Direction

09/05/2022

Many years ago, Mike the Mentor as he is still known, told me that if a frog (let's call him Frank) is placed in a saucepan of hot water it will leap out of it; which seemed very sensible to me. However, if the frog was placed in cold water and the water is slowly brought up…

What will make employees stay?

22/03/2022

Encouraging managers to hold stay, or retention, interviews with employees is the latest tool in the war to retain talent (FT. March 22). The logic is sound. Catch employees before they have another job offer and have mentally moved on. It’s an opportunity to find out…

How to lead effectively in a VUCA world

14/03/2022

The turbulence of change is so commonplace these days that the business world has adopted the label VUCA - Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous - from the military, who originally coined the term to describe the conditions they were facing in places like…

The future of hybrid working

18/02/2022

The future of hybrid working There’s a lot of comment about returning to the office, and depending on who you are talking to, more or less enthusiasm. Conversations, media and academic commentary reveal a mixed picture: Opinions seem to vary across and between…