My journal is a place to express my thoughts about what I do. The entries you see here are prompted by client scenarios or the ideas that inform my work. I hope they may be useful to those who are trying to find out about me or who want stimulus for their own thinking.
Take a moment and notice your body. How are you positioned as you read this? Are you sitting, standing, curled up on the sofa? Are…
Holding polarities is a skill – for leadership, for coaching and for life. What is a polarity? The Cambridge Dictionary defines Polarity (noun) as “The quality…
I coach many leaders who have recently joined an Executive team for the first time. They are new C-somethings. One subset of these leaders are…
To work with teams is to work with hierarchy. What do I mean by hierarchy? I mean the explicit or implicit, conscious or unconscious, ranking…
The phrase ‘my clients grow me’ came out of my mouth in supervision this week. My supervisor said, “You should write about that. It’s an…
Your line manager moves a date for an important strategy meeting and it clashes with your son’s driving test, which you promised to take him…
What is storming? Storming is when differences, disagreements and disappointments surface in a team, often with strong feelings. During a storming phase we might experience ‘car-crash’…
I’ve been privileged to work with University College London’s Climate Action Unit over the last couple of years. These very clever folk have studied all…
There is turmoil in several of my client organisations at the moment. Contextual turmoil is leading to organisational turmoil which is leading to team and…
Recently, I’ve been doing some work with an organisational client on the Drama Triangle. Stephen Karpman’s famous model is now in its 60s and still…
A New Year reflection after a long time of not blogging! 2021 passed without a new word appearing in this journal. What have I been…
What’s the problem? Let’s fix it! Then let’s move onto the next problem! The clock is ticking, we need to DO SOMETHING! What’s the gap?…