The era of stand up public speaking, with cue cards and auditoriums full of people may belong to the bygone days of school public speaking competitions and the dreaded stand-up …
For the past 2 years I have contracted to two organisations, both for respective pieces of coaching work. Both are expanding organisations, in spite of the pandemic and both have …
As we move in South Africa into the peak of our second COVID-19 wave, I am aware of the continuum of responses to this surge in the pandemic in our …
Corporate conversations these days seem to be peppered by the term ‘agile’ and being no IT guru, I won’t hazard an attempt to explain Agile methodology to you (though my …
One of the key words of this pandemic must have been ‘resilience’.
It’s a little like the secret elixir that will protect you from the ravages of change, and yet one …
This weekend I had the opportunity/obligation to attend an NPO AGM with my eldest son. It was the first such opportunity to do so and given that my son had …
I haven’t heard from leadership guru, Peter Block, in a while and I managed to catch him looking a whole lot older, (and sounding even wiser, if it is possible) …
In working with a really focused, action-oriented client recently, we again encountered the invasiveness of our friend the cell phone. Because he doesn’t have time to go scrolling through internet …
As I sit down to blog, another tumultuous shower is lashing my window as the week lives up to its name, at the southern tip of Africa of The Cape …
Today I began my day connecting early with a client on the northern tip of my continent, who has a child on the autism spectrum. She waits on tenter hooks …
As I was preparing for a ‘resetting’ workshop with one of my clients today, I was struck by one of the questions recommended for a team undergoing change…dare I mention …
Among the many things I appreciate about Brené Brown is her almost irreverent scepticism for several ‘holy grails’, which in her latest podcast includes the enneagram! As an enneagram practitioner, …
There have been a few articles and webinars of late that have aroused my interest in challenging that getting back to ‘normal’ is not the right place to go. There’s …
I was lucky enough to hear an interview with author Elizabeth Gilbert of, “Eat Pray Love” fame. It wasn’t something that I thought was vitally important on my agenda, but …
One of the many benefits of being one of the ‘haves’ in lockdown, is that there is a lot of free material around, which is normally inaccessible or expensive.
My love …
I think the Master of this subject must be Arianna Huffington, and so here I extract from her New York Times article to profile her 10 favourite tips to improve well-being …