You don’t have to be an extrovert to be able to speak confidently in public. You don’t need to have a loud voice, or have a dominant personality. I am an introverted, mumbling, beta male, who is always happy to blend into the background and let someone else take the limelight. However I am toContinue reading “Speaking confidently in public”
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Football my boys and me
Firstly I realise that some people that read blogs via wordpress are based in the US, so when I write football, I am writing about soccer. Football has only relatively recently become a part of my life, when I was growing up I only paid attention to the FA Cup and and World Cup. InContinue reading “Football my boys and me”
I didn’t want to run today, but I did anyway
As you all know I have been preparing for the Great Manchester Run in a couple of weeks. This morning was a scheduled run (I try to get out for a run at minimum twice a week. This morning I really did not fancy it, I woke up about 6am and felt shattered, my musclesContinue reading “I didn’t want to run today, but I did anyway”
Episode 3: The Cough
The next morning Helen went into work with renewed energy to face whatever the day threw at her. John went into the office too. Today they were going to be looking for spaces where they could provide drop-in support alongside the chaplains, so he would be spending the morning scoping out venues. His gut feelingContinue reading “Episode 3: The Cough”
Forget All Future Plans: Episode 1
John has volunteered to help out on the staff support helpline, fielding calls from worried members of staff about their symptoms or symptoms of family members. The employee services staff field the calls first then pass them onto John and his colleague Jane, if they are a little more complex or if they feel theContinue reading “Forget All Future Plans: Episode 1”
Background and Timeline for Forget All Future Plans
This is the introduction into the world of Forget All Future plans, which is the project that came out of COVID and turned into a personal project about grief and loss. It is not a finished project and will unfold on here as I write more content over the coming months. Some of you willContinue reading “Background and Timeline for Forget All Future Plans”
A blog about how I am going to learn how to grieve for my Dad 24 years too late…
I have a confession to make, lately have been neglecting this blog. I have been struggling to write for a few years now. I have made up lots of reasons, like not having much to say or trying out new formats. In fact I have just given substack a go for the second time, seducedContinue reading “A blog about how I am going to learn how to grieve for my Dad 24 years too late…”
A blog about love
If you know me you no how soppy I can be, and I will often talk about love in a work setting. If you don’t know me you are probably wandering what the hell I am going on about. Am I encouraging workplace romances? No I am not, that is another blog entirely. Before IContinue reading “A blog about love”
Leading a values based life (introvert or extravert, thinker or feeler?)
Here is my third and last instalment this week from my Connected Living project. This chapter encourages you to consider your persona and where you preferences lay. This chapter helps us appreciate that we are never binary (one thing or another) but a complicated and often situational. There is not a better way of being,Continue reading “Leading a values based life (introvert or extravert, thinker or feeler?)”
Leading a Value’s Based Life (an antidote to a shitty few weeks)
The past few weeks have tough. I cannot put my finger on one thing, there is just a lot of noise in the system at work and outside of work that is conspiring to narrow my bandwidth. Talking to people over the past few weeks it is not just me that is feeling this wayContinue reading “Leading a Value’s Based Life (an antidote to a shitty few weeks)”
Connected Coaching 