This week I’ve attended a conference and two workshops, and have been impressed by all three. Speakers have been engaging, backdrops have added value and the tech has been stable. I’ve talked about presentations before - about preparation, style of delivery and how...
Today I had the absolute privilege to join the Centre for Army Leadership's conference on Remote Leadership. Each presenter was absolutely excellent. Here are a few of my take home messages… To achieve effective remote leadership there needs to be a devolution of...
Sometimes you have to take back control. When things don’t go as planned and you’re buffeted off course, you have to take control. In my 20 years in the public sector, too often I’ve heard stories of colleague that were promised project opportunities, jobs and pay...
It’s exhausting, isn’t it? Not the kind of exhausting when you’ve spent a 16 hour shift caring for patients in Intensive Care. It’s a different kind of exhausting. It’s like when you’ve been on a long car journey and done nothing but sit and watch road signs. When I...
Today I’ve been reflecting on some of the women who have guided & inspired me… My English Teacher. She was cool, respected and did the best for us pupils. Once she took us to a regional competition. My first memory of a world outside school. She made me love...
Every day there’s a new article about retuning to work. There are polls galore seeking the definitive answer to the future of work location. Company leaders are making declarations on which side of the fence they sit and pragmatists are seeking a middle ground that...
It’s quite incredible how emotions can change within the space of a day. It isn’t something I noticed pre-lockdown, so I assume that both the feeling of different emotions and the noticing of them has been impacted and heightened by lockdown, social distancing and...
I listened to the Brené Brown podcast with Adam Grant a couple of weeks ago and I loved it. I’ve been waiting for the transcript to go live so that I could revisit. Here are some things that I took away: We want to fit in and stand out. We want to be part of a group...
The work we do is rarely done in isolation. It’s likely to be connected to a hundred different outcomes impacts and consequences. This is particularly true of the public sector- we hope everything we do connects to a positive outcome for the citizen. Considering how...
Within the space of a week, we’ve gone from dark, dreary, snowy gloom to sunshine, longer days, second vaccines, the PM talking about a roadmap out of lockdown and a new financial year in reach. It feels like we’re on the cusp of that big break, on a roll to winning...