Doing my first live podcast was quite possibly more daunting and more vulnerable than my days as a downhill ski racer!!! Here I share my journey into coaching and beyond – what got me started, what keeps me going and why I love what I do. Listen on Apple here Listen on Spotify here
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 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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
OK, so I wouldn’t put myself in the ‘legend’ category by any account, but I did represent Australia as our first female visually impaired down-hill ski racer, so I learnt a lot about being your personal best during this part of my life. And the morning after two of the…
