Heading into the wind
Most weekends my friend Amelia and I go for a long walk. We started doing this when we were training for a 12 mile charity walk a couple of years ...
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Unhelpful job search criteria
I subscribe to the Harvard Business Review(HBR) daily updates and as is so often the case today's gave me food for thought. It's is a promotion for a guide to ...
What’s stopping you?
In New York recently we came across this magnificent building and discovered that it is the main post office building. It's pretty impressive and we had to stand on the ...
Have you got the post holiday back to work blues?
At the end of August many people in the UK will have already had their "summer" holidays ( the whole issue of what summer means when you live in a ...
Where are you looking for inspiration?
Out walking with my friend Lesley ( who took this picture) at the Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh we stopped to look at the wonderful Charles Jencks "Landform" in ...
Would you take your own advice?
A client was telling me about a friend of theirs who was having a terrible time at work. Her workload was apparently out of control and she was feeling so stressed that ...
Performance appraisal and pushing buttons
"It's time to schedule your performance appraisal meeting..." Imagine you read that in your email this morning. What was your immediate response? Was it - "Great - I am looking forward to ...
What do you do to hide your lack of confidence?
I meet lots of people in all walks of life but there are often some common themes. When teaching speaking skills in particular where I used to expect the least confident participants ...
Do you hate your job? Some tips on what to do now.
We are in the middle of a worldwide economic crisis. It is difficult to predict what is going to happen from day to day. There have been lay offs already ...
