Preparing to Talk About the Monsters Under the Bed: Four Sets of Questions to Help Regroup with Your Team

by AnnaYoung | Feb 25, 2025 | Coaching, Leadership

The world of work where I spent significant parts of my career is experiencing deep upheaval right now. Thousands of my friends and colleagues have been laid off or furloughed and are having to radically rethink their lives. And thousands more still have their jobs...

Getting Greater Impact From Training: Tips for Helping Training Stick

by AnnaYoung | Jan 5, 2025 | Coaching, Facilitation, Leadership

Think back to the last training you attended that you enjoyed. Ask yourself what you most enjoyed about it? Then ask yourself if you can name three key takeaways? Then ask yourself, how many things you can identify that you are doing differently because of what you...

Does How You Like to Travel Create Insight into How You Live Your Life?

by AnnaYoung | Dec 6, 2024 | Coaching, Leadership

This is a time of year when many folks, particularly in the Northern hemisphere are on the move – traveling to either find the snow or escape the cold, visiting family, revisting established traditions or creating new ones. Getting on planes, trains or buses for...

Why Write?

by AnnaYoung | Oct 10, 2024 | Leadership

Many of you know that in the last month I wrote my first paper  in a very long time, together with a dear colleague, collaborator, co-conspirator and friend, Myriam Khoury. And it felt like a huge accomplishment. It’s been six months in the writing and quite a lot...

Three Tips for Better Budgeting (Your Energy)

by AnnaYoung | Sep 13, 2024 | Coaching, Leadership

I recently had dinner with a good friend who has an illness which means that her energy is extremely limited and she has to plan her days budgeting her energy, particularly if she wants to do something in the evening. Once she has ‘spent’ her energy for the day it is...