Leading through the unknown is another story from the series of interviews I conducted in 2021. As I mentioned previously I used AI to help me create a more conversational feel to the interviews to make them more interesting. This interview has transformed into more of a reflection of this leaders experience.I have then tweakedContinue reading “Leading Through the Unknown”
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When Everything Changed
Back in 2021 I conducted interviews with leaders who had led their teams through the pandemic. Their stories were extraordinary although at the time we were all still going through it and in some ways it felt ordinary. The reality was these leaders were just ordinary people forced to lead their teams through extraordinary times.Continue reading “When Everything Changed”
Day off…time to leave the pity party
It’s my day off today and in the spirit of my last blog over the weekend, I decided to spend the afternoon writing. It is just too warm to do anything else. I am sat in the in our back room with the patio doors open, hoping a breeze will break out and cool meContinue reading “Day off…time to leave the pity party”
Running, wobbles and goals
When I went to bed last night I was planning on going to Park Run for the first time in 10 years. I was inspired to return after such a long time after completing the Great Manchester Run last Sunday. I have always told myself that I am more of a solitary runner so IContinue reading “Running, wobbles and goals”
Speaking confidently in public
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”
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”
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 (connecting with the present)
Slowing our thinking As I mentioned in the previously the neocortex is never going to act faster than the reptilian and mammalian brains. They are designed to react to keep us safe. The problem is they are rather blunt and indiscriminate. Professor Steve Peters bundled them together into the Chimp to describe how they bothContinue reading “Leading a values based life (connecting with the present)”
Leading a values based life (understanding shame and vulnerability)
As I promised yesterday here is the second instalment of the latest iteration of my Connected Living Project. I touched on shame and vulnerability last week in relation to me writing this blog. We see shame everyday at work, showing up in defensive and divisive behaviours, every time we look at the media we seeContinue reading “Leading a values based life (understanding shame and vulnerability)”
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)”
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