Using the right brain functions
Becoming more creative as a person, a skill that is going to become more and more vital to our survival in the workplace, seems to hinge around us exercising and developing our right brain functions. Most of us are right-handed and neurology has shown that our right handedness is closely connected to our left brain […]
Can You Learn to Become a Creative Person?
As automation and AI develop at an ever-increasing pace what role can humans expect to play? It is not going to be long before many of the more mundane, formulaic and processes where a programme can be extrapolated will be done by machines. It is already happening in many industries including the financial services sector […]
Celebrating success, however small, is good for your health
We are very good at running ourselves down or being critical of our achievements however, how much effort do we put into celebrating success however small? If, like me, you lean towards perfectionist tendencies, then you can be very hard on yourself. Though you may allow yourself a fleeting sense of accomplishment it is not […]
Innovative thinking – do you sometimes have whacky ideas?
I don’t know about any of you, but I quite often walk around feeling slightly out of step with everyone else. It’s not an unpleasant experience, I am just aware that, when it comes to thinking processes, the way I view the world and the ideas that come to me are not your average thoughts. […]
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Things have gone suddenly very quiet which I should not be surprised at as it is holiday season and a lot of people will be away with their children and families. Knowing that it won’t last very long I am taking advantage to slow down for a couple of weeks. The weather is lovely and […]
Acknowledge Your Feelings and work with them
I am always a little dismayed when people come up to me at an event and relate a trial or tribulation story of their own to me, though perhaps not for the reasons you may think. Without exception somewhere during their recounting they will say “of course this is nothing compared to what you have […]
Regaining perspective – some days you need to switch off
Everything around me continued. I could hear the sounds of the traffic, voices from passers-by, phones ringing and pinging as calls and messages came in and the sun casting its finger of yellow warmth and brightness across my room moving inexorably as the hours passed towards night time. The only thing that was not moving […]
The Value of Positive Regard
Do you have positive regard for your colleagues and friends? It seems to me that today’s world is very good at tearing people down. Everywhere I look if someone is doing well for themselves there are plenty of people looking for ways to destroy what they have. Rather than saying ‘haven’t they done well, I […]
Share Your Vision
Part of my job now is to sit in on business leaders’ meetings with their teams to observe how they come across and interact with their colleagues. I am not there to criticise or to nit-pick, I am there as an impartial observer who can then pass on my tips as a speaker as to […]
The Importance of Influencers – Why You Should Aspire to Other Leaders
I think one of the fundamental steps towards trying to become a great leader is to think of who inspires you, great influencers you would most want to be like. Perhaps it is part of the human psyche to search for someone worthy of our respect, attention and desire to emulate and for each of […]