Think about the best manager you ever worked with. What made him or her so special.
If I were a betting woman – and I’m not!! – I would bet that being a good listener would be on the list.
Clearly I advocate coaching as an invaluable personal development skill. I also look forward to the day [...]
Robyn asks “how do you find joy in your work?”
This is such an interesting question as I speak to so many people who struggle to tell me what is good about what they do to earn a living.
Now I believe that part of this is because here in the UK ( or certainly in Scotland) we [...]
A couple of things prompted this post.
Firstly I was speaking to someone who said that some days they wanted to just offload to someone who would listen but they found that when they tried to do that that the other person would step in and try to solve a problem.
The second was Robyn McMaster’s post [...]
I met with Lubna Kerr today. Lubna has an idea to open a “Centre for Health and Wellbeing” which would be accessible to anyone with long term medical conditions and where they could find support to develp a strategy and plan to live a full life with those conditions. She is looking for both funding [...]
A radio advert for Lexus caught my attention this morning. The theme is “One Day…” as in “One day I will learn to dance..” or ”One day I will make that trip..”. In the ad they say “One Day usually means never”.
Is that the case? Possibly.
I have long been concerned by the use of language and the [...]
