The Attention Paradox: Understanding ADHD and Focus

Burn out and blackout: Building our resilience

10/11/2020

Burn out and blackout - What are your warning signals? As the days grow shorter, the blackout is coming. It has been a brutal year. How do you and your people recharge your batteries? I was so thrilled to find a jar of Nutella lurking in the fridge (honest – it…

The Coaching Habit: book reviews by my son

03/11/2020

The Coaching Habit, by Michael Bungay Stanier and The Fearless Organisation, by Amy C. Edmondson Recently I recruited Greg Stitt, who is my son, into my coaching business. To help me stay on top of things, I asked him to read and review some books that caught my…

Why Purpose Matters Now More Than Ever…

15/10/2020

There is a reason purpose matters more today than ever. On August 19th, 2019, 181 businesses in the US as part of the Business Roundtable[1] signed up to a new definition of the ‘purpose of the corporation’. At that time Jamie Dimon, chairman of J.P Morgan Chase said,…

The four legs of my sturdy table by Dave Stitt

31/08/2020

I’ve come to understand that my business has four pillars, writes Dave Stitt. Metaphorically speaking, they’re the four legs of a table that can hold the weight of my customers’ aspirations. The four legs are 1) my mindset, 2) marketing, 3) value pricing and 4)…

The natural way to change – become more of who you are

24/07/2020

The natural way to change – become more of who you are A professional coach will interrupt your story, but not your thinking. That’s because coaching is a partnership between the coach and you, the thinker, with the aim being to explore new thinking. New thinking is…

Why culture matters

12/06/2020

Many of our coaching clients are working for international companies or interact with colleagues, partners and clients from around the world. Some of them might have moved to this country from abroad and are finding their way in a UK working environment. Some of the issues…