Successful collaboration is key to innovatively tackling complex challenges. I was reminded of this while watching a classic Studio Ghibli film, 'Up from Poppy Hill'. In the movie, young students get together to campaign and save an older building that they use for activity learning. It's a powerful reminder of…
I’ve been a mosaic artist for 10 years, learning with Vanessa Benson at Morley College. It’s a hobby, not a career: most of you know that my happiest work is coaching, training and consultancy. And more recently supervision (training with Oxford Brookes). What I enjoy about mosaics is creating abstract images. This…
Quick tips - Emotional Intelligence for Leaders and Managers Emotional Intelligence - popularised by Daniel Goleman - is proven to help your career development, leadership and management skills. In my first EI blog, I’ll help you discover what techniques improve the Self-Awareness aspect of EI. So whether you are looking to shift…
Theory U is a process for innovative change in teams, organisations, and communities. It helps us tackle our toughest unresolved challenges. It offers fantastic insights to leaders too, about how to bring about meaningful change and innovation. A bit about me and TheoryU I have been learning about Theory U since 2015. I had…
I’m interviewing leaders and staff, discovering what has made their teams resilient during this uncertain time that we’ve been through globally. I’ll be presenting some of the information in a workshop at the SDF Festival of Learning later next week. In the meantime, here's some insights on why we need a…
TheoryU is a complete process for innovative change. Andry has been learning about TheoryU since 2015. Learning Journeys are just one of the TheoryU tools. What are Learning Journeys’ for? TheoryU ‘Learning Journeys’ encourage you to move out of your daily routine and allow you to observe more deeply and…
It's supportive conversations and confidential relationships that help you see the links between you and other staff, stakeholders and systems you are connected with. Seeing the interrelationships between all of us. Seeing the impact of your behaviours on others, on teams and on the organisation. It's using that systemic perspective…
Sometimes when at work, we might experience stressful thinking such as: ‘I have to go to this meeting’ or, ‘I have to do this task’. It’s a slightly tough way to think or to motivate ourselves, as it creates inner resentment and stress. Choice-based thinking, like ‘I want to..’ creates freedom and…
Are you... Feeling that you have a run out of steam, because you’ve been doing all the thinking and carrying out most of the actions? Even when WFH? Needing to be more resilient to stress, change or challenge? Finding your solo actions are not having the impact that you hoped for? Facing a…
Wellbeing coaching at work is a supportive conversational process with a coach, that may involve focusing on different areas of your life. These include working productively, and effectively and the links with your wellbeing e.g. relaxation, health, WFH, and wellbeing goals. Wellbeing leadership coaching may focus on leading on wellbeing …