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Gill How

The Value of Weekly Planning by Role

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Do you have too much to do at the moment? Currently I have 24 professionals completing reflective workbooks each week as part of their “Stepping Into Leadership” programme. It’s a new and explicit role as learner for them needing extra time in their diary, and needs to be planned in. Priorities are important. You may recall a previous blog of…

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Fix The System, Not The Women

By | Culture Change, Leadership Development | No Comments

Whether it is the police, firefighters or whatever sector coming next, misogynistic, racist and homophobic workplaces are being exposed with more data, more evidence and more voices in the room than ever before. I’d like to say that we are getting traction on solutions, although progress seems to be breath-takingly slow. Awareness is surely the start of any change though,…

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How To Expand Your Space and Grow

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I started the New Year with a walking holiday in the snow, forests and mountain ridges in Transylvania. There are 6000 brown bears in the wild in this part of Romania; representing 60% of all brown bears in Europe! Not all bears are lucky enough to be in the wild though. We visited the Libearty bear sanctuary where there are…

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How Personal Authority Can Give You

By | High Performing Teams | No Comments

In facilitation skills training I ran for an organisation last week I asked participants to step further into the authority they hold in their work, and we worked together for them to use this with more comfort and clarity. Chairing key meetings across their sector and industry, they are keen to step up  and use a wider range of facilitation…

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Am I an Invisible Woman?

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With massive reluctance, I have just read “Invisible Women” by Caroline Criado Perez, which I discussed in my book group last Friday. Why was I reluctant? Well, I knew it was going to be heavily data driven, which for me is always a tough read. But there was more. I was not sure I was going to like what I…

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