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How to use your strengths to pursue your dreams
Reading Time: 9 minutes New goals and New Year’s Resolutions It’s traditional at the start of the year, or in a fresh month or quarter, to think about what

If you want to be good at something, first you’ve got to be bad
Reading Time: 5 minutes There’s a simple truth in life that I have encountered too many times to count… If I want to be any good at anything, first

Navigating change: The Four Doors of Change
Reading Time: 9 minutes Navigating change can be tricky – it brings up a lot of emotions, worries, and decisions, and we’re not always sure where we stand. One

Why Gardening Is A Great Metaphor For Working With Strengths
Reading Time: 10 minutes This morning, as I sat outside with my coffee admiring my summer flowers, I realised that gardening is a great metaphor for working with strengths.

How To Choose Your Approach This Silly Season
Reading Time: 6 minutes As Christmas and the New Year draw near, it’s a great time to choose your approach for the silly season. You don’t have to sit

What’s with the worship of busyness?
Reading Time: 6 minutes As I wrote the title to this article, I wondered how many people would read it and think that I had mis-spelled “business” as “busyness”.

Leadership Toolbox: getting to grips with empathy
Reading Time: 5 minutes In my first Leadership Toolbox post, I talked about the importance of self-care for leaders. Self-care involves turning our attention inward, to manage our own

Great results: Strategy 6 – get a coach
Reading Time: 6 minutes The “get a coach” strategy is one that works in so many aspects of our work and life. That’s why it also featured in my

Great ideas: Strategy 6 – use a theme or vision
Reading Time: 6 minutes An often-overlooked strategy for generating great ideas is to use a theme or vision to drive our thinking. You can use this approach in conjunction

What you need to know about our autonomic nervous system and stress
Reading Time: 4 minutes Human beings have an autonomic nervous system (ANS), which controls a great deal of how our body works. The word “autonomic” means that the system

How To Use Your Unrealised Strengths More Frequently
Reading Time: 5 minutes As I wrote in a recent article, one of the best ways to boost your energy, engagement and achievement is use your unrealised strengths more often.

Website and social media accessibility policy
Reading Time: 2 minutes I believe the internet should be an open, fair and transparent place where we can share information, views and opinions in a way that is

The Link Between Appreciative Inquiry and Strengths
Reading Time: 4 minutes Appreciative Inquiry is a method for solving problems and implementing change by focusing on the positive. It emerged from the work of David Cooperrider and

Unrealised strengths: how to ignite your every endeavour
Reading Time: 5 minutes The world is slowing waking up to the idea that working with our strengths is a far more enjoyable, interesting and productive approach than focusing

Mindset: how to transform your life
Reading Time: 7 minutes Over the course of our lives, we develop and adopt beliefs about ourselves and how the world works. The word “mindset” is the collective name

Great ideas: Strategy 7 – don’t prejudge your ideas
Reading Time: 7 minutes We’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