Coaching, Leadership, Teams
I am now offering Quintax Personality Profiling in my coaching work. Why use psychometrics? I believe that understanding yourself is a fundamental first step in personal and professional development. Once you understand yourself and “where you’re...
Change, Coaching, Creativity, Critical Thinking, Resilience
A dyslexic journalist? Surely a recipe for disaster. You might be surprised. A.A. Gill’s autobiography, Pour Me: A Life is a great read for those of us who love his journalism. He’s the Sunday Times’ restaurant and TV critic as well as an occasional feature writer,...
Coaching, Leadership, Resilience
In a business world that is increasingly volatile, it’s often said that leaders need resilience. But what is that? The dictionary definition refers to an ability to spring back into shape, or recover from difficulties, and in psychology literature, we see resilience...
Coaching, Leadership, Resilience
In my last blog I wrote about the benefits of frustration as a prompt to get you to imagine what you want. “daring to dream is an important step in thinking about change” This kind of imagining is future-oriented and is a creative step towards choosing...
Coaching, Creativity, Strategy, Teams, Training Transfer
I’m really enjoying reading a recently published book by psychoanalyst Adam Phillips called, “Missing Out: In praise of the unlived life.” He says that we spend a lot of our energy on awareness of what is not in our life and wanting something else. This is essential...
