How do you create intimacy in a virtual environment, enabling you to form a meaningful relationship with another person, or persons, on the other side of the screen? How can you engineer your presentation to feel like a one-to-one conversation, fostering a personal connection? Yes, I’m talking to you. I’m here because you are here, […]
Business leaders know the challenge it can be to lead change. When there is a new announcement about something changing, you can often hear the groans that arise. Work teams of all kinds resist change. Understanding ways to overcome the resistance can be a leader’ s best answer in times of change. As I’ve mentioned […]
I feel like my whiteboard has been redacted A lot can happen in 6 months. You can go from joy to misery. You can go from misery to joy. You can go from rich to poor. You can go from poor to rich. And so on… However, whilst most of these changes don’t just happen by chance; the positive ones at least […]
Now that’s what I call a birthday card! Here’s a question for you: Would you sign a card for someone you don’t know (or only minimally know)? This is a quandary I was faced with 20 years ago. It was my first day in a new company and I was sat at my desk trying to work out […]
You take risks regularly, from backing your car into the street to trying a new restaurant. You only hesitate when your fear of the unknown leads you to focus on the worst that could happen. I’ve had many coaching conversations start with, “I need to make a decision.” Yet after describing the options, it’s clear […]
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In learning how to fly an airplane, one of the first lessons has to do with understanding winds. Winds come in basically three types; Head winds – those hit you right in the face Tail winds – those from behind Cross winds – those at angles from the side I believe the challenges we […]
This is what you get when you ask BingChat to create an image of half life in relation to friendships Somehow I ended up spending over 12 hours of my Saturday writing emails. That’s longer than I spend working on most work days; so why did I do it? What were the emails about? They were emails […]
GenAI helped me with an image of a panda dwelling over failure whilst everyone around him is cheerful It’s the morning of the first working Monday of 2024 and I have chosen to spend it writing my first blog of the year, but what should the topic be? This time of year there’s a lot written about […]
#PositivePalestinian — What it’s like to be a “high-profile” Palestinian small business owner right now This is not really how you should wear a keffiyeh I don’t consider myself to be a high-profile Palestinian (I mean I am no Bella Hadid despite what my mum tells me about my good looks) but it has become abundantly clear that for […]
