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October 20, 2016

Employee Behaviours That Leave you Aghast!

A friend, currently living in India, circulated a video of their gardener mowing the lawn. Rather than using a lawn mower (which I am reassured they do possess), he was trimming the grass on his hands and knees with a pair of pruning shears! Several thoughts popped into my head, […]
October 7, 2016

The Power of the Silver Lining…

It’s common knowledge that our latest England manager has lost his job, after he was filmed offering advice on how to ‘get around’ rules on player transfers. Given his unreserved excitement at having finally secured his dream role, and to lose it again after one game in charge; we can […]
April 1, 2016

Simple Advice for Getting Ahead

Watching a tennis player applauded off court by the world’s number one is not something I’ve seen before. Novak Djokovic was clearly impressed with the way Kyle Edmund – one of our rising British tennis players – performed against him. No surprise that Edmund was beaten. Everyone expected him to […]
December 31, 2015

Career Landscape Less Than Ideal? It is What it is so Make it Work for You!

This habit of blaming everyone else for current circumstances has been playing out in the Premier League of late and I’ve been following it with interest over recent weeks. You may be aware that José Mourinho, Chelsea’s high profile manager has been sacked and there seems to be a split […]
October 10, 2015

Time is Precious so why do we Abuse it?

Spending time at a friend’s house one Saturday afternoon, their seven year old daughter was waiting for her father to take her to a birthday party. He was doing his emails and kept putting her off with “Another five minutes honey and I’ll be done”. The party started at 2pm […]
July 18, 2015

Think you Have Clarity on a Situation? Wait Until You’ve Heard Everyone Else’s Perspective!

In conversation with colleagues, we were discussing workload for the coming week and I mentioned that I was scheduled to do some individual coaching for one of my company clients. It was a standalone session with a short-term specific outcome. What followed was a debate about the motivation of the […]
July 4, 2015

Want Your People to Listen? You Need to Become a Gossip!

It used to surprise me which aspects of a company communication people heard. Rarely would it be the facts. Given that I’ve always operated in senior management positions, I’ve been privy to the intended messages coming from the top; and often witnessed a mismatch between what management were trying to […]
June 13, 2015

Laziness or Procrastination? No Matter, Delay no More!

A client asked me why some people work hard and it feels like play; whilst others are drained by it and feel every minute of the effort they put in. At the point of asking they were feeling miserable about how little time they had to get stuff done. I […]