05th October 2009
The loss of someone you love is always very difficult but out of bereavement comes a golden opportunity to examine your priorities and to re-evaluate the way things are done.
The loss of my brother made me think about many things at a personal level an...
24th September 2009
How heavily do you rely on one person for key activities?
How much stress is your staff under because there is no one who can fulfil their function if they were to go on holiday or to be ill?
What contingency plans do you have in place for dealing w...
24th September 2009
On May 31st at 12 noon I received a telephone call which I found hard to comprehend. My brother aged 49 had died whilst on a training session preparing for the London to Brighton Cycle race. At first, I simply couldn’t take it in. I drove to Colchest...
12th June 2009
We are currently living in difficult economic times. Organisations, we have all grown up with and thought of as invincible, appear to be struggling. The media constantly speculate on the next expected casualty and when a difficulty is confirmed they driv...
12th June 2009
You work long hours; work fills your waking day. Solving problems, supporting clients and colleagues and it takes all of your conscious thought, your energy and your time. At the end of the day you fall into bed. You slip into unconsciousness or your br...
13th May 2009
Businesses world wide are facing probably the most challenging time since the Second World War. Most of those in positions of responsibility have little or no first hand experience of dealing with a recession on a global scale.
In times of boom it feel...
12th May 2009
Every choice we make has consequences. When work takes over, it has significant consequences across the whole of your life. Some consequences will be positive and others negative. It is the balance between the activity and what it costs you which deter...
18th February 2009
There is a real challenge in managing staff in an economic down turn. For many Managers the first instinct is to drive everyone harder to ensure that the maximum productivity and return is created. In the short term, this may appear to work but in the m...
18th February 2009
Any significant change in your life can be challenging. Leaving home, your first job, getting married, a promotion or having children, all bring the need to make adjustments to your thinking and to the routine of daily life. Yet every one of these situa...
18th February 2009
We all play games. No I’m not talking about football, cards or tiddlywinks. I’m talking about the games we play with ourselves and others.
The “I’m not going to listen to what you have to say - even if it makes perfect sense, because if I do ...
24th July 2008
Before we start to consider why it is important to focus on your perceptions, let’s clarify what I mean by perception. Throughout our waking hours we take in millions of pieces of information. We take in information through all our senses. What we se...
24th July 2008
When you ask people about themselves they will very often answer by telling you what they do rather than who they are. Our sense of identity is coloured by what we do. We are all lots of versions of ourselves: I’m a father or mother, a sister or brot...
24th July 2008
Why is it so important?
The business world is facing more challenges than ever before as it manages the speed of change and competes with world markets at a time of economic down turn. Times of such challenge will see many organizations go to the wall...
30th June 2008
Successful leaders and managers have the ability to step back from the frenetic
day-to-day operation or their department so that they can see the bigger
picture.
Military leaders of the past would seek out a vantage spot high over the field of
bat...
30th June 2008
We all need to feel of value. We all gain that sense of value in different ways. None of them are wrong in themselves but the meaning we give to situations can have a profound impact on how we operate with others and how we feel about ourselves. Unders...
