Imagine that it’s the end of next week. On a large blank sheet of paper write down what you would like to be able to say about the week “just gone”. How have you spent it? How were you? What have you achieved?. The list will probably be a mix of personal and professional tasks … Continued
1) Be careful what you don’t wish for… I’ve learned to notice when people say “I would never…” or “I have no interest in…”. It often means “I would love to…”. So how come I believed myself when I proclaimed for years that running a marathon was a bad idea? Bad for the knees … Continued
I remember the first strategy away day I had with the senior team in a recently merged organisation; each wanted to present their strategy and intended to use PowerPoint. They were dismayed when I invited them to confine their presentation onto two pages of flipchart. But the conversation we had that day … Continued
Do you ever have those days where you work frenetically, but go home feeling “I got nothing done today?” So many of the clients I work with are overwhelmed. They get to the end of one task: there are tens more waiting. So they start with the smaller things (because that shortens … Continued
I was lucky enough to be invited to facilitate a group of 60+ people on a 2-day strategy development workshop recently with the EMEA team of a pharma MNC. Given the brief: a recently restructured business, a new leader and a tough environment, my co-facilitator and I carefully designed a … Continued