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INSTRUCTIONS:– Grab a pen and something to capture your answers, and write down whatever comes to mind – however small or unimportant it might seem. Try to keep all your answers on one page.  – Aim for 3 strengths or responses to each question.– Know that repeating answers are good – this highlights important strengths […]

Values are a word that gets banded around a lot in today’s world.  Most businesses clearly share their values on their websites and on their walls and many have taken the time to really embed them into their way of operating at work from the job advert, to induction, within the strategic and operational plan […]

What a wonderful night at the Midlothian & East Lothian Chamber of Commerce Awards Ceremony. It felt very special to be sharing the night with my daughter (though she was craving hot chocolate and her PJs by the end), and to be applauded on the stage with the other Micro Business finalists. Being a solo […]

Random Acts of Kindness week in February may be a new awareness week for many of us, but the premise of showing kindness and compassion to ourselves or others isn’t. Acts of kindness are beneficial to both giver and receiver and a gift that costs nothing other than a little bit of time, and a […]

“Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself.  It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.” Warren Bennis, was one of the founders of modern leadership sharing his insights in the now classic book ‘Becoming a Leader’, back om 1989.  He believed that leadership was learned, that you were not born into […]