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 […]
Is a question I get asked often when people notice a blog every week day. The first rule is show up. Nothing will get written if I don’t write. Some days I do not want to write. These days are usually the days I need to write and I learn most. The second rule is […]
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 […]
Today I did a new thing. Today I did what was for me, a Big New Thing. I got up at 5.30am and I went out in the dark in order to pitch my business to a room full of strangers. This was right at the outer reaches of my learning edges for a multitude […]
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, […]
When one of those absolutely beautiful, clear, cold, blue, winter days arrives…. If you can, drop everything. Walk away from the PC, shove your paperwork back into the pile it came out of, put your out of office auto reply & your voicemail on, wrap up warm and leave the building……. Really! do it! Even […]
As someone who was an introverted child, my dad still screws his face up occasionally and says the words ‘but you were such a strong little thing’. I can sense that we had a perhaps a few confrontations whilst I was small. Whilst this may have been a pain for my parents, once I have […]
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 […]
It is within the tensions or conflicts that we have not yet resolved that the most brilliant creative responses emerge….. The difficulty lies in sitting with it. Unresolved situations are uncomfortable. We do not know what will happen. We do know there will be some change and change is challenging. We can feel unsafe and […]