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.
Is politics a positive or negative word to you? What does it conjure up? Do you think of yourself as a political animal? The theme…
It’s so hard to live with disappointment – when our expectations are not met or our dreams dashed. It’s also hard to disappoint someone else…
This entry explores the area between Coaching and Counselling or Psychotherapy which some practitioners are now calling Couching. In entry level coach training much is…
Research published in Harvard Business Review Febuary 2016’s article Collaborative Overload by Cross, Rebele and Grant found that ‘the time spent by managers and employees in collaborative…
I’m inspired to write about endings by a friend and colleague who recently became MD of an international non-profit organisation. Hold on, this sounds like a…
The prevailing frame of reference for change programmes continues to be a linear, programmatic version of change that has its roots in the process and…
Pre-teens weren’t even a thing when I was growing up, but now I have one. I can already hear those of you with adult kids…
John Cacioppo is the director of University of Chicago’s Centre for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience and is interested in Loneliness as a social phenomenon. According…
Resilience is much talked about in the world of leadership and organisation development. I love the way the funny and brilliant researcher and speaker, Brene…
Many of us spend so much time thinking about what we are not, that we forget who we are. We grow up with teachers, parents,…
Something is going on at the top of organisations that leads to frustration. Many leadership teams behind closed doors talk about how they would like…
70 20 10 in the field of leadership development is much talked about but not yet widely applied. I see many leadership development professionals getting…