Asking For Help is Human. When I was small I was sure that being a grownup meant that I would have all the answers. Now, from the perspective of my fifth decade, I know this to be a very erroneous expectation! I think between the ages of 16 & 26 years I pretended I knew […]
In business as in life, I find my best survival tool is my sense of humour! When I have sent the very client who is extremely particular about things being done correctly, a corrupted document, in a manner that seems almost impossible to do deliberately, after apologising, I had to laugh….. After arriving at the […]
Whether it’s at work, play or home, we can all feel cross sometimes. I don’t know about you but it’s when I have felt cross about an issue repeatedly that I sometimes need to be really clear about true consequences to the others involved. It might be a domestic disagreement, or an ethical dilemma, but […]
I had a weird experience last night. At a meeting I noticed that the tension between myself and a really amazing colleague had dissolved. Whilst there had been no malintent, I think I had been little awed by her brilliance and had perhaps been prickly or defensive in return? So on quitting the venue last […]
In moments of rage and despair it is too easy to forget that there was a time of enjoyment before this ‘present’, or indeed that there shall be anything beyond it. I am living proof, as indeed are you, that there is life after hurt. I believe it is a Buddhist belief that the measure […]
If you feel your boss has been unfair, or your client has misread your contract, if something you have published has been misconstrued or you’ve been on the receiving end of the criticism about a mistake that someone else has made…… The accusation can feel very unjust. The natural human response to unfairness is fear, […]
I attended a business finance course today….. I learned three things. Firstly I learned that when the trainer is unfamiliar with the intricacies of the course content, it can make it difficult to to decipher some of the information. It simply does not translate. Secondly I learned that for all the ‘models’ and ‘channels’ one […]
Whilst there is no such thing as a bad client, there are such things as personality mismatches or clients who perhaps not yet ready to dive headlong into the issue that needs addressing. Or there are clients with whom the relationship is in its early ‘forming’ stage and the boundaries and challenge zones are just […]
This is a question we often ask ourselves, but in this case I do not mean ‘are you running yourself into the ground trying to fit everything and everyone that you ‘should’ into your day?’ What I am asking is “what are you doing with the Spaces In-between?” Within the pauses, the sitting in traffic, […]
We live in a culture that has very little respect for age. Bombarded as we are with images of nubile nymphs, it is really easy to forget that time, self knowledge and experience bring great information to our career development. Once we get into our 30s and 40s however, we begin to really make some […]