The week ended with the Best SME Awards, and Silver Award for Best Impact. If those I work with didn't take brave steps, there wouldn't be any impact, and thank you for sharing your stories for me even to be nominated! Well done my friends at North
Looks like I'll like pink a little longer! At the British HR Awards, I won Highly Commended for Coach of the Year. Coming second in 12 finalists is amazing! Credit to my brave clients' and their results when they face fears and risk failure. Thank
Friday is The Best SME Awards and I'm chuffed to be a Finalist for Best Impact. The impact is the results and stories from my brave clients. There have been many over 23 years of me and Wildfire. That's a lot of conversations with brilliant people
For today I will like the colour pink. I think I'm one of the few women who can't stand it. And we know someone will be tickled pink by the end of the day.. One heck of a competitive category and little ole' me is very pleased to be a finalist! We
Today is National Tea Day. I don’t think I’ve heard of it. Nor fes-tea-val or showing solidari-tea (!), both phrases which I’ve seen in connection. It seems it’s used to encourage tea tasting and afternoon teas! Drinking
Today your team is losing the will to work, because of you. Harsh, but is it true? And it’s not me wishing burnout on you, stretched as you are already. Teams aren’t being talked to. Not properly. I can get someone to coach, only to
Just being nice isn’t helpful. Nor is constant criticism. Let’s fix that! The problem is that most people receive something blurry in-between. They get a bit of appreciation and some correction. But it doesn’t drill down to exact
Last week my back end changed. I did a thing. A BIG thing (not sure anything that suggests LARGE, HUGE or MASSIVE is safe in caps at the moment) .. but, at least, it was big for me. I put on my big-girl pants and battled with tech, AKA the automat
In the local paper for being a finalist in two national awards, the British HR Awards for Best Coach and The Best SME Awards for Best Impact, both events being later in the month. Thanks, Warwickshire World! 🧡 #HRawards #smeawards #bestsmeaward
April means rain showers, our (polite, reserved, almost apologetic) St George’s Day and Autism Acceptance Month. The inner voice of autism: ‘I know my experience and I shouldn’t need to prove it to be believed.’ ‘Ther
On Monday I was in the "Hotseat" at The Esther Drop-In. The amazing The Esther Project, in Leamington Spa, helps disadvantaged women. WE COVERED: Handling a familiar narcissist The impact of being hyper-vigilant after trauma Sneaky shi
On Wednesday, at the PINS (Partnership for Neurodiversity in Schools) Conference I was speaking on the topic of Difficult Conversations. For school staff (like any resource-strapped, stressful, time-poor environment with many stakeholders, politics