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Category: Resilience

Would you like to step outside?

19 Jun

More and more I am struck by the benefits which the outdoor space can provide us.  Here I consider how we might all enhance our lives by incorporating a little more outdoor working…  

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16 Oct

M is for Motivation; Rediscovering Workplace Motivation

“When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy.  It’s very simple” – Paolo Coelho I find myself often exploring the subject of motivation to explore an individual’s or team’s behaviours, drivers and performance but what was significant in a recent coaching conversation, was the wish on the part of the coachee

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04 Sep

“What’s Your Everest?”

I was totally inspired by the recent Everest summit made by Ben Fogle and his challenge to us all “to find our Everest”, whatever that might be.  Two years of preparation, setback after setback (losing your training partner, horrendous weather conditions, stories of other teams in trouble, failing oxygen equipment), the sacrifice of being away

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20 Jun

Lead With Confidence

If you want to improve your #leadership ability, you must first improve your #confidence level. Here’s my latest blog from Imaginate Development.

I hope it prompts some reflection…

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16 May

The Role Of A Coach – Support AND Challenge

Adventure and daring – evocative words, aren’t they? These are the words which stayed with me following a recent talk on “International Coaching” as part of International Coaching Week. The workshop was led by the highly experienced coach and facilitator, Marie O’Hara, who works in Lausanne, Switzerland.

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26 Apr

Making Goals Work For You – “We Are Such Stuff As Dreams Are Made On”

When meeting recently a good Norwegian friend of mine, she shared her work and life goals for the year with me and blew me away with her commitment and ambition. A real inspiration to write about this very theme….

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29 Nov

Crossroads: Exploring Options

I wonder how many choices we make each day? Breakfast and dress? Dress and then breakfast? No breakfast? Smart dress or casual? Car or walk? Coffee – large, medium, small, take-in, take-out?

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27 Oct

Change: Beginning, options and outcomes

When I recently launched my new business, Imaginate Development, my young son said, “Mummy, Imaginate is not a word!  My reply: “Exactly!”

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