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Hidden Gifts From 2024: Finding Gratitude and Celebrating Growth

2024 may not have unfolded exactly as you planned. Maybe the challenges outweighed the victories, or the goals you set in January feel distant. Even so, there’s power in recognizing the hidden gifts—the resilience you built, the lessons you learned, and the connections you nurtured. Out of adversity, there are often unexpected treasures,

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Leading Change - The Transformative Impact of Group Coaching

Change is inevitable in the dynamic landscape of business. The journey can be fraught with challenges and uncertainties for business owners and senior leaders tasked with spearheading change initiatives. However, amidst the turbulence, group coaching emerges as a powerful ally, offering a structured framework for support, guidance, and empowerment.

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The Resolution Paradox: Why Our Inner Child Holds the Key to a Successful Year

As the calendar flips to a new year, many of us will embark on the annual ritual of making New Year's resolutions. Whether it's the commitment to hit the gym regularly, adopt a healthier diet, or finally conquer a long-standing bad habit, resolutions are often seen as the first step towards a better version of ourselves. However, this well-intentioned tradition has a glaring flaw:

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The Power of Pausing to Celebrate

It's December, and as we end the year and look towards the festive season, what better time to consider our achievements and successes?

Yet, if you are like me, do you ever find yourself navigating a whirlwind of tasks and priorities, moving from one challenge to the next, without even considering your progress? It's easy to slip into autopilot, where accomplishments become

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#BreakTheBias #IWD2022

’m grateful to be delivering client workshops in celebration of International Women’s Day 2022, with the theme this year being #breakthebias. Researching for my presentation I reviewed McKinsey and Company’s most recent Women in the Workplace report and there was some positive movement

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The Year I Stopped Drinking Alcohol

This time last year (4 January to be precise) I gave up drinking alcohol. I’m not a great believer in new year’s resolutions, they are so often noble intentions that fall at the first hurdle. Rather than resolutions,

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#ChooseToChallenge #IWD2021

The theme for International Women’s Day this year is #ChooseToChallenge. There are some many things that could and must be challenged if we are to continue to equal up the playing field for women to succeed

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6 Ways to Address Conflict

I recently re-engaged with a good colleague to co-facilitate some leadership programmes we had previously run face to face and now re-designed for zoom. Both experienced facilitators we had worked well together in the “old world”, but on our initial day of virtual delivery for me, something was off.

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The Power of Understanding Our Impact

“People will forget what you said, forget what you did, but they will never forget how you made them feel” Maya Angelou. A client had a break-through in a session I was running recently. He realised that in his performance conversations with his team,

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What Is Your Leadership Shadow?

Part of a leaders role is to shed light on the direction to be followed. But where ever there is light there is shadow and how every leader shows up, their attitude and behaviour

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Leading with Head and Heart

As we transition to the next phase of this pandemic a key feature of our return to work is the rising anxiety many people are experiencing. This is only in part related to Covid 19 itself.

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