Highlights, Lowlights and Insights

Every year, around this time, I make sure I take some time to reflect on the year just gone. I’m not one to make impulsive, and often unfounded, new-years resolutions, but I get a sense of being grounded by reminding myself about what was hard that I got through, what I’m grateful for, and what […]

Emotion – No Longer the Poor Cousin

As human beings, we’re hard wired to experience emotions, and whether we realise it or not, our emotions strongly influence our thoughts, decisions and behaviour. Emotion is simply energy running through the body, and how we express an emotion is a release of that energy. It’s helpful to steer away from labelling emotions as positive […]

Getting Unstuck

Do you remember playing with magnets as a kid, and how cool it was when you found something that stuck? It felt like magic! And did you ever try to put two magnets together the wrong way around, with the like poles together, and see how they repel? Making changes in my life often reminds […]

Coaching in a Crisis – There’s No Time Like Now

In talking with my colleagues, clients and friends, I’m struck by the incredible opportunity we have right now for growth.  In spite of, or almost because of, the global challenge we’re faced with, we have an opportunity to step up to really being the Personal Best version of ourselves, for each other, and for the […]

Staying Hopeful

This may be the first time – certainly in my lifetime, and possibly in recorded history – that the whole of humanity is united in pursuit of a common goal: to keep each other safe and well until we emerge from this crisis, hopefully a little slower, a little wiser, a little kinder, a little […]

Is No News Good News?

A consistent complaint I hear from almost every employee I work with is ‘I don’t get enough feed-back…How do I know if I’m doing a good job?…I just want to know if I’m meeting expectations… ‘ But no news is good news, right? Surely if our performance wasn’t up to standard, or we were behaving […]

Save Your Job – Get Crafty

For most of us, the job we do is an extremely important aspect of who we are. Our job is part of our identity, representing the realisation of our interests, values and capabilities. Often we spend as much time at work as we do on all other aspects of our life. So it’s a sad […]

Let’s Get Engaged!

As an employee, it’s pretty easy to feel your engagement levels going up and down. When you’re engaged, you’re purposeful, productive, and passionate, driven by an inner sense of meaning and self-sustaining energy. You know your engagement is waning when you start to question, judge, make excuses, lose interest, care less. At its worst, low […]

Trust Me I’m A Manager….

No matter what kind of relationship we’re talking about – intimate partners or a workplace team, trust is critical to the health of the relationship. And the health of the relationship impacts directly on the well-being and functioning of those in it. In the case of a work team, healthy relationships are critical for high […]

Let It Go

Christmas can be a time of heightened emotions, and despite what we’re led to believe, these emotions are not always positive! Loneliness and grief can re-surface, tempers fray as work groups try to meet unrealistic deadlines and expectations, and Christmas lunch can be more resemblant of the Gaza strip than a happy family gathering. And […]