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The magic of metaphors as part of your coaching Do you have days when you just feel as if you got out the wrong side of the bed, and as you get ready to start the day with your favourite mug and preferred beverage, you accidentally drop it – starting the day with the feeling […]

I tried to poison my husband on Friday. Not on purpose, obviously, but accidentally from my forest foraging for mushrooms on my Friday day off.  I was really excited about the natural bounty I’d gathered under the watchful eye of my friend.  However, something went wrong between the picking and the cooking which contributed to […]

Too old to change I often hear from leaders that either they are too old to change or the team around them is so settled, that change is very unlikely.  Two different issues, but with one common factor – level of performance vs pressure. Let’s look at the thinking of why a leader isn’t willing […]

A big Thank you! A big thank you to all those folk who supported me and my family in our support of ELCAP as part of 2022’s Edinburgh Kiltwalk.  We were one of the 5000 strong crowd of folk supporting 500 charities, all with our own stories and purpose for taking part on behalf of our designated […]

Let’s talk about suicide. We are surrounded by numbers and rarely stop to think what they actually mean to us, until we become one of those numbers – by taking our own life (18 deaths a day), being affected by someone who has attempted or successfully died from suicide (135 people), by being a man […]