Resources
I write regularly on topics and resources that inspire me, disturb me, invite me to see the world differently… I post them here to invite a conversation with others in my community – whether friends, colleagues, peers, clients… I believe that by entering into dialogue and sharing more of what matters with each other we will become more connected, more resilient and ultimately find better solutions to the world’s challenges. Please read and join me in conversation. I will respond to everyone who writes back.
Networking or Net-weaving?
Several years ago I was about to leave for a conference on innovation in San Francisco when my boss asked me what my plans for networking there were. This threw me into a sense of panic for two, potentially contradictory, reasons. On the one hand, as a borderline...
Catching Up With Myself
Have you ever arrived somewhere after a long (possibly plane journey) and felt that, while your physical body is present, there are parts of you that are still somewhere else, possibly high over the water somewhere, possibly still lingering at your last destination?...
Helping You Facilitate the Gatherings You Lead
Are you hosting an internal retreat, meeting or gathering and facilitating it yourself? Do you feel that you are 90% there but would like a bit of extra support or access to some new or different activities to incorporate? Do you know what you want the content of the...
Do Mistakes Get Easier the Better We Are At Something?
Exploring the irony of how I find it easier to make mistakes the more experienced I get in something.
Seeing Meetings as Punctuation, Not the Novel Itself
Or... One Big Mistake Many of Us Make When Planning Gatherings, Meetings, Retreats and What We Can Do About It! Many of us have a gut reaction when we are told we need to go to a conference, retreat, work gathering, off-site, or simply an all-day meeting. There is...
Why I ask the obvious questions
If I ask you to think of a butterfly, most likely an image pops into your head. Maybe of the butterfly at the end of Eric Carle’s The Very Hungry Caterpillar, maybe a Red Admiral or Cabbage White if you grew up like me in the South of England, maybe a big yellow...
Tips on GETTING feedback
We know (most of us) how stressful it can be to have to give someone a piece of feedback that we or they can perceive as negative or critical. I spend quite a lot of my time, both in coaching and in workshops, exploring what makes it hard to give feedback and learning...
Tips on Finding the Right Coach (for you)
Finding and choosing a coach can feel hard. I’ve pulled together some thoughts and guidelines from my experience of talking to others to help think this through.
Avoiding Rabbit Holes in Team Conversations
I almost subtitled this blog Notes from a Reluctant Energizer Bunny! I recently spent four days with a dynamic group of senior leaders, facilitating a series of strategic conversations. This was the first time that they had met in person for a while and there were a...
Five Ways to Channel Information Overload
Five simple strategies to help proactively surf the information deluge that many of us live in so that it serves us rather than drowning us. I’m old enough to remember a world before email and before phones that held access to much of the world’s information if I’m...
