Stepping right out of my comfort zone Continuing a theme of being brave in business, trying something new, challenging myself, the other week I stepped right out of my comfort zone and accepted an opportunity to be filmed giving a talk. I don’t know about you but I don’t like having my photo taken – […]
Being Brave in Business Continuing the theme of trying something new as a new business owner… – as well as networking (as an introvert), I’m being brave in business and getting out of my comfort zone, setting up and running a series of workshops together with Lucy Rennie (Lucy Rennie Communications). It’s not the workshop […]
Networking for Introverts – My Personal Experience Since starting my own business I’ve learned to embrace the (from the outside) curious world of networking… When I worked as a scientist in a large company, ‘networking’ was a euphemism for staying up late in the bar at a conference…(!) Little did I know then that I […]
Energy Angels and Energy Vampires In order to be performing at our best in whatever it is that we do, it is important to be in a ‘place’ of high, positive energy (the ‘Performance Zone’). One way to do this is to surround ourselves with people who boost our energy, people who can make us […]
I’ve been thinking about labels… it’s dead easy to label our children… this is ‘the musical one’ this is ‘the quiet one’ she’s ‘just like her Dad’ etc… but how much do we think about how those labels stick..? What labels were you given as a child? Were you ‘the shy one’ ‘the fussy eater’ […]
Olives – do you love them or hate them? I learned to love olives after a friend told me I needed to eat at least three in a row for my taste buds to get used to them (thanks Dave!) I’ve been given the same advice to help to get my children to try different […]
Asking for Help… I’ve been thinking about the fact that asking for help is sometimes seen as a weakness or is uncomfortable to do because we don’t want to burden others who already have a lot on their own plate… But.. “If you do not go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If […]
“Where are the women leaders?” Back in 1999 (last millennium!), I was at an internal training day chatting with one of the other female delegates between the end of the presentations and dinner… We were trying to figure out how many women we knew of in our company that were on the higher rungs of […]
An Attitude of Gratitude – Lessons from my Daughter I wrote this post one year ago, in March 2015, following my daughter’s skiing accident – it has been my most viewed post on LinkedIn… Here is the original post, with a recent update at the bottom: An Attitude of Gratitude Recently my 10-year old daughter […]
Feel like you’re busy, busy, busy….but not getting the important stuff done?? In a previous post (Not enough time in the day!) I asked, ‘What small changes can you make to focus your energy on what’s important?’ Let’s take a look at ‘to-do’ lists… Overwhelmed by your ‘to-do’ list? Often we are advised to make […]
Time, the one resource that is never in short supply, yet one of the most difficult to manage. “There’s not enough time in the day!” We all have 24-hour days, time doesn’t ‘run out’, it doesn’t ‘fly’ – although it may feel like that sometimes..! Whether or not we feel happy about our supply of time, […]
Welcome to my new website which I am very excited to share with you. I hope you like it and would welcome any feedback in the comments box below! Launch Offer! To celebrate the launch of my website I am running a BOGOF offer on my 1:1 coaching sessions – get 2016 off to a […]
