How to ensure L&D boosts your diversity and inclusion agenda

Real cultural change isn’t about training – it’s about embedding behaviours.
Six emotional skill sets for remote workforces to thrive

With home working set to be a long-term norm for many, the emotional skills required to thrive in this environment must not be overlooked.
How L&D can promote a culture of positive failure

L&D must normalise failure at work – after all, the fastest way to succeed is to fail.
Coronavirus: earning your ‘black belt’ in resilience and leadership through a crisis

Five ways to boost your resilience and leadership skills in a crisis.
Why ‘rising up’ is the true art of adapting in uncertain times

In the current crisis, we need to take the opportunity to grow.
Teaching clients to coach themselves

Coaches may be excellent leaders, but we are only human, and we cannot be there for our clients 24 hours a day. In fact, in the midst of the current coronavirus pandemic, we cannot even be there physically for them at all, in many cases. Moreover, with so much uncertainty in the air, our clients’ […]
Coaching leaders to use conflict constructively

Not all conflict is bad – leaders need to learn how to use it to their advantage.
Coaching: how to reframe an isolation mindset

Covid-19 has drastically changed what everyday life looks like for all of us. Struggling to cope with stay-at-home orders and learning to live under self-isolation protocols are challenges that many of our clients have never faced before. Indeed, in the midst of the current coronavirus crisis, we are all – physically, at least – more […]
How to adapt to change being ‘the new normal’

We all hate change, but can we train ourselves to handle it better?
Panic and the coronavirus pandemic: short burst coaching in chaotic times

Just when leaders need it most, many feel they are too busy to have coaching.
Training pitfalls: why so much leadership development doesn’t work

Current leadership development programmes are failing individuals by focusing on the wrong things.
Adaptability during times of uncertainty: readjusting your approach to a crisis

Covid-19 presents challenges for us all, but how should you respond?
Critical thinking: why we need a clear head during the Coronavirus crisis

There’s never been a more important time to exercise some much-needed critical thinking.
Working through coronavirus: reflective versus reactive decision making during a crisis

When panic hits, which type of decision making is best – reflective or reactive?
Panic and the coronavirus pandemic: emotional transference when coaching during a crisis

As a coach, your psychological response to clients during this time requires reflection.
Panic and the coronavirus pandemic: how to listen with presence in a time of uncertainty

Why we need to learn to listen, rather than answer in times of crisis.
Team cohesion: why it matters and how to build it

Team cohesion requires a good flow of communication, mutual understanding and unity of purpose.
Face to face, facilitator led training

In the last year, I have lost touch with main stream training trends due to a stroke. I am now getting myself back on my feet and, although training delivery is a thing of the past for me, I am still interested in the extent to which face to face , faciltator led training is […]
How to build resilience with high intensity thought training

Did you know you can use high intensity training for your mind as well as your body?
Critical thinking: the art of asking questions

How and when to challenge assumptions to get better results.