I recently heard about a junior member of staff who hadn’t been to work for ten days. She cited ‘mental health issues’. Her boyfriend had called time on their relationship and she wasn’t coping well. It’s one more in number of similar occurrences across a number of different organisations that have been mentioned to me by clients and colleagues.

Here is my checklist for managing a hybrid-working team. It might not be exhaustive, but if you can say yes to everything on the list, you’re probably doing pretty well…

Coaching works. No doubt about it. The quality conversations between a person and their coach can lead to massive increases in performance, to hugely enhanced confidence and skills or to the resolution of long-standing problems. But who should coach your people?

I’m hearing tales from HR about good candidates who won’t accept a job offer unless they can work at home. But is it the right thing to do? Your employees might want to work from home, but what if it isn’t good for them?

I grew up in the Yorkshire Dales, where every village green is also a cricket pitch and despite attending a State School, cricket was played in the Summer. Just not by girls. However, my Dad liked to watch all sports and somewhere along the line I learned about cricket. So, when I started watching the World Cup in 2019 I did actually understand what was going on! And I got completely hooked. Here's why do I love this weird sport so much?

I’ve been thinking a lot about teams and why we need to work in teams. It’s a common feature of most workplaces, that each person has a role and also belongs to a team. Sometimes we refer to all the people who report to one manager as being a team, even if their work doesn’t overlap. However, most teams involve working together to some extent.

I can’t help wondering how many people have learned NLP as a personal development tool and haven’t realised how valuable it is in business.

These past two years have tested everyone’s emotional resilience – mine included. There are a few key practices I’d love to share with you because they support mental wellbeing. Keeping yourself in a good frame of mind is possibly one of the most important responsibilities you have as a leader.

In this video, I’m sharing four key areas where the application of NLP principles and techniques elevate business results easily. I have lots of real-life examples of people who have reaped the benefits of applying an NLP approach to their business outcomes.

Even if you’ve already decided that NLP is a load of b***ocks. Even if you’re already certified as a Practitioner of NLP. There are some things you might not know about NLP that will make a difference to you...

In social situations it's not always appropriate to blow your own trumpet. But when it comes to securing the job you’ve always wanted or a prestigious contract, it’s important that you are the star of the show and that your value is easy to communicate. It’s also relevant for performance reviews and any kind of audit.

Now that most business have returned to a ‘normal’ level of work, albeit partly from home now, the number of meetings going on seems to have risen alarmingly. In recent weeks I’ve had several clients and contacts confide in me their stress at having days of back-to-back meetings.