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There's a phrase "Everyday's a school day" which I love with its implication that every day is an opportunity to learn something, to develop. I said this once to a client who said along the lines "Oh my goodness, I certainly hope not.  I hated school, just hated...

You know when you hear something and it just makes sense?  Makes you stop in your tracks (or in my case, stop the Podcast I was listening to) and write it down. Well, the phrase "But luckily" was just such a phrase. I was listening to Diary of a CEO, a...

I'm very good at dishing it out.  "There's what you plan and then there's what happens" is one of my go-to phrases I use when supporting a client with her various career pivots and pirouettes. That whole "be flexible" and "expect the unexpected" sense of...

You might be wondering why the text below is all in bold ?   Well, it's because I asked the Artificial Intelligence App, ChatGPT"What's the difference between empathy and sympathy?"  and the response came back in Bold.   I wanted to cut/paste and show...

Janet had known for a while that she was being made redundant.  Her team would be restructured and her role would, effectively, be disappearing. We both know she's not alone in this situation and it's all too common now to be completely 'poleaxed' if and when it...

Tolerance is a loaded word.  Tolerance and introducing the potential of tolerance allows you to move from right or wrong, and it shifts the balance where it’s not quite perfect but it’s still okay – or ‘good enough’  Being tolerant it keeps you...

We as women have a tendency to Go Overboard!   It's something I've noticed in myself and clearly I see and hear it in my clients, colleagues and friends. Over. Over-deliverOver-stayOver-shareOver-prepareOver-careOver-thinketc...I could go on Clearly I don't...

"I don't know if we'd be friends if we weren't sisters because we're so different?" was something my sister said to me whilst we were on holiday last week.  She didn't mean it in a nasty way, more in a pensive and wondering kind of way. Thinking about it as we...

So, you may or may not have watched, be watching or be a fan of Ted Lasso? Having just watched the final episode of this three series programme something struck me about what Ted says (well, many things struck me) but one of those is the phrase "Be a goldfish". Ted,...

Pippa had been approached to apply for a role in a major high street retailer, and it was her first interview in 15 years.  She was feeling anxious, concerned she’d be lost for words or out of her depth.  Pippa and I decided that despite her being...