My daughter Hannah introduced me to Dan Snow’s history podcasts. It felt aligned, relevant and absorbing to learn about the first voyage of Captain James Cook, both as a navigator and coloniser, along the eastern coast of Australia, as we drove to Cape Tribulation, on our way north from Cairns and inland from the Great Barrier Reef. We don’t often…
Do you have a long standing dream, something you would like to do? And yet, somehow, find it easier to find reasons to dismiss your dream, rather than marshall energy towards it? Here’s a story of how I turned around my negative self-talk, addressed my concerns, built a team and called on strengths, mine and those of others, to succeed…
The instructions for my recent walking trip to Sri Lanka included buying leech socks. I didn’t even know what these were! Sri Lanka is beautiful to visit. The warmth of the people, the history, culture, landscapes, flora, wildlife and food, are all amazing. But leeches in wet mountains in monsoon season are something else. On our first full walking day,…
In what way is psychological safety important? As part of her PhD, Professor Amy Edmondson found that, counter intuitively, high performing teams made more mistakes, and have more errors than others. Let me say this one more time. High performing teams make more mistakes. How can this be a good thing, and add to safety and performance? In her TED…
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…
In August, my husband Martin, older son Mike and I travelled around nearly all of Ireland for the whole month in our Motorhome. Not only was this a fantastic way to understand more about Irish history, the links with the British and all things in between, it was also a great opportunity to catch up with some of our friends!…
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