Last week I had a lovely holiday in Tuscany. We hired a car and drove around some of the places you can only reach by car - and often the final stage is only on foot. One of the interesting challenges of the week was driving a left-hand drive car on the opposite side of the road from the one we drive on in the UK...
Blog Category: Blog
[BM Weekly] Flaming June
Over the past year I have been working with leaders at the Royal Academy of Arts and last week before I left the building I took the opportunity to see the famous painting, 'Flaming June' by Leighton...
[Audio] Always a Woman – episode 1
My friend, Wilma Allen and I have talked for a while about doing a podcast together. A few weeks ago we decided that we would start it now, on the understanding that it might not be very good to begin with, but that we would learn and get better...
Lost in Translation
I didn't have a religious upbringing but like all school children in the UK at that time I learned the Lord's Prayer. Or at least, I thought I did...
[Inspiration] Cause and Effect
I attended a networking meeting this week and the speaker - talking about resilience and remote working used this quote from Maya Angelou. It resonated for me with the NLP idea of 'being at cause'. If you're not familiar with that, it comes from the relationship of cause and effect. When someone has a problem, they are often experiencing the 'effect' end of the equation...
[Inspiration] To be or not to be…
Earlier this week was William Shakespeare's birthday. As part of 'The Birthday Weekend' celebrations in Stratford-upon-Avon I visited the Parish Church, where flowers are laid on Shakespeare's grave by members of the local community.
[Inspiration] Yes, that’s Wembley
Yes, that is me. Yes, that is Wembley. Yes, there are 80,000 people there for an England international match. If you know me, you know that football isn't my thing...
[Article] The North-South divide
In the UK, many people hold the view that there is a big difference in the culture between the North of England and the South. Sometimes Scotland is included in ‘the North’ but mostly it keeps its own cultural counsel.
[Article] My NLP Story
I have often been asked, 'How did you get into teaching NLP?' The story started in 1991...
[Article] Mental Health Musings – can work be therapy?
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.
[Article] Leading a hybrid team
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…
[Article] Should you coach your own team?
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?
