Finding a new place to live is a lot like a good strategy project; it requires healthy dollops of IQ, EQ and FQ Undoubtedly one of the biggest events to happen to me, my life and my business in the last 2 months has been my upcoming eviction from my Central London apartment. As such, I […]

Undoubtedly one of the biggest events to happen to me, my life and my business in the last 2 months has been my upcoming eviction from my Central London apartment. As such, I felt it deserved a special series of short blogs exploring this event. This is the first in that series where I explore […]

Look at those beautifully manicured nails This is a reprint of a classic blog that I wrote in February 2020 when I first started my company Shiageto Consulting. Enjoy! Did you know that the humble phone call is dying at a rate of c.2.5% fewer phone calls each year in the UK? This is particularly […]

I’d never even heard of the word lanyard until I got into facilitating For those of you that follow my blogs or have watched my business grow, you’ll know that I love facilitating. Every month, I jet around the globe facilitating different groups; I also facilitate a lot virtually (which is a different skill entirely […]

Who doesn’t love a 🐫? Did you read about the recent fiasco in Lebanon with the clocks going forward for Spring? The government decided to endorse 2 different time zones in an attempt to appease Muslims and Christians at the same time, with Christians putting their clocks forward immediately and Muslims being allowed to wait a month. Now […]

Nope, that’s not red paint! Dune bashing* is fun; my first time dune bashing yesterday should have been fun but it wasn’t as fun as it could be. [*nope, this has nothing to do with moaning about the Dennis Villeneuve sci-fi film but the joy of taking a 4×4 🚙 out into the desert 🏜 to power […]

London is very pretty from the air It definitely feels like we’re “back to normal” as far as being in the office is concerned and for me, and Shiageto Consulting, this means back to incorporating a fair bit of travel to spend time with clients. Whilst we perfected how to facilitate and train remotely during Covid [I should say that this […]

What a group One year into running my first start-up I really wasn’t sure I was doing the right thing; the idea I had left my corporate job for wasn’t getting quite the traction I’d hoped for and I was getting more and more worried. Add to that the fact that I’d never run my own business […]

Lightning rods and speed bumps — 2 fantastic facilitation techniques Count the seconds until the thunder This is a reprint of a classic blog that I wrote in November 2019 when I first started my company Shiageto Consulting. Enjoy! I must confess something: I love ice breakers, energisers and anything different that jolts me out of the day-to-day. […]

Ooh post-it plus mad scribbles, that’s how you know it’s genius 😉 I love a podcast! Not just listening to them but, even better for me is, being a guest on a podcast to share my story, form connections, sharpen my thinking and generally learn new things. On average I manage to guest on at least one podcast […]