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Behind the scenes at the Unleash Your Awesome audiobook recording
Reading Time: 3 minutesGet a glimpse behind the scenes at the recording of the audiobook version of Unleash Your Awesome. I absolutely love audiobooks, and listen to 30-40

My 5-star reads of 2024 – list version
Reading Time: 3 minutesHere are my 5-star reads of 2024, in list format. If you’d like the pretty, picture-rich version with all the linky goodness, plus my reviews,

Focus on your strengths, not your weaknesses
Reading Time: 6 minutesIf you’re like me, you have sat in countless training sessions or performance reviews being told to identify your weaknesses and develop strategies to compensate

What Are Your Unrealised Strengths And Why Do They Matter So Much?
Reading Time: 4 minutesImagine that you are facing a problem that is preventing you from moving forward, and you don’t know how to solve. You try one thing

Experiencing coronavirus fatigue? You’re not alone.
Reading Time: 10 minutesIn these coronavirus-impacted times, fatigue seems to be a near-universal experience. Many people are wondering why they feel so tired when they’ve just had weeks

Great ideas: Strategy 10 – use your strengths
Reading Time: 8 minutesThis is the “capstone” strategy for this series, because it is the strategy that can wrap around all the other strategies: use your strengths. It’s
Welcome!
Reading Time: 3 minutesWelcome to my website. My goal is to provide useful and interesting information, to help you with your change and development journey. I’ll be sharing

Culture element: stories
Reading Time: 3 minutesStories are a vital part of your organisational culture, whether or not you are using them consciously. This post explains why stories are so powerful,

Leadership Toolbox: how to create psychological safety at work
Reading Time: 7 minutesHave you ever wondered why some teams thrive in difficult times? Their leaders have learned how to create psychological safety. Team members and the manager

Why we need to ditch certainty and embrace uncertainty
Reading Time: 8 minutesCertainty is highly prized; so much of what we do and say revolves around creating certainty for ourselves, or projecting an aura of certainty for

Great ideas: Strategy 8 – use a facilitator
Reading Time: 5 minutesSo far in the series, we’ve looked at strategies that directly apply to our thinking. In this post, we’ll look at a strategy that helps

Great ideas: Strategy 7 – don’t prejudge your ideas
Reading Time: 7 minutesWe’re shifting focus slightly in this post, to look at a strategy that will keep our thinking and idea generation as broad and open as

Why Are We Ignoring The Need For Strategically Flexible Leadership?
Reading Time: 3 minutesSince early 2020, all of the focus about flexible work seems to be on what arrangements need to be made for workers to get things

Opinion: Why We Need to Embrace Paradoxes
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe more that the world seems to be divided into extremes, the more I am drawn to the middle. Not mediocrity, fence-sitting, or refusing to

Why leaders need to read fiction
Reading Time: 8 minutesI’ve been an avid reader of fiction ever since my parents taught me how to sound out my very first words in my favourite childhood

What Many Approaches to Strengths Get Wrong
Reading Time: 4 minutesI love the huge variety of strengths-based approaches that are out there, but many of them get one key thing wrong. They focus on the