I was recently commissioned to run a series of 5 consultation workshops for a client in sport. It happened that the dates fell alongside other workshops already planned so I ended up running 9 separate workshops in the space of a week and a half, or 8 working days! This was an intense but enjoyable […]
How are you? Isn’t life odd at the moment! Stripped of many of its usual elements and features, we are being asked to live a strange existence through this pandemic. A client this morning remarked that ‘the current restrictions are starting to wear a bit thin!’ I think we can all relate […]
How would you describe your 2020? Last weekend, The Guardian included a supplement entitled ‘The Lost Year’, all about the pandemic. The lead article was brilliantly written, well researched, and made many points I agreed with. But I found myself bristling with the suggestion that 2020 has been ‘lost’. A year ago we had high […]
On holiday in Cornwall last month, me together with members of my family were on the beach at Praa Sands enjoying the day when, in the distance, we could see worrying looking dark storm clouds heading our way. For a while, we debated whether to stay or take refuge, and eventually we decided to pack […]
We’ve all been through the same thing, but we’ve experienced it differently. During May and June, I ran 6 weekly polls on Linked In asking questions about how people were dealing with lockdown. The topics covered productivity, wellbeing, optimism for the future, job changes and career aspirations, planning and goal setting, and who people […]
How to Bend, Not Break! Have you ever come across the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon (also known as the frequency illusion or recency illusion)? This is when the thing you’ve just noticed, experienced, been told, learnt or been thinking about crops up constantly. It is everywhere. Has that ever happened to you? It is happening to me […]
There has been lots of talk about curves over recent weeks, from exponential curves, flattening curves and ‘squashing the curve.’ Another important curve to consider during this pandemic is the change curve, and a greater awareness of this theory can really help us to understand and accept the change we are all experiencing as well […]
Over the last few years, I’ve both observed and experienced a gradual increase in the pace and pressure of life. I don’t know if this is real or perceived but to coin a phrase being used frequently at the moment, I feel there’s been a ‘ramping up’. Many people have spoken about the need for […]
Would you like to feel good going into Christmas and the New Year? Of course you would! So, as we reach the end of another year, and indeed the decade (yes!), it’s a good opportunity to take time out from our hectic day-to-day existence, pause, evaluate where we are, and where it is we’d like […]
