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From Response to Awareness: The Unseen Currents of Our Emotions
❔Ever noticed how emotions arrive unannounced, shaping our world before we even have a chance to question them? ❔Ever drafted an angry…
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The Myth of Imposter Syndrome: What if You’re Just Accurately Self-Aware?
Last week I received an unsolicited invitation to pay for a webinar on supporting coaching clients with ‘Imposter Syndrome.’ The promotional materials…
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The Power of One-on-One Meetings: Building Communication and Productivity
One to one meetings are the foundation, the engine room of our business. If they’re led well we get to know our…
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Coaching Leaders in a Rapidly Changing World.
New ways of coaching, new ways of being. I first became interested in coaching back in 2006 when I was a Leadership…
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Why learning to pause helps you be a more effective leader
I recently worked with a team of 30 first time leaders. They’re keen, energetic, all have good track records of being successful…
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Why listening lies at the heart of impactful leadership
Being a leader who listens Leadership life is busy, really busy. We talk about our heads ‘buzzing’, ‘multi-tasking’ and ‘managing distractions’. We…
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Navigating Moods and Emotions and the Peril of Positivity
Cornish Flowers – Niall Woodward I recently read an interview with James Taylor where he talked about ‘the precarity of our emotional lives’. Nearly…
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Five things I wish I’d known before I started leading a team (and five things that helped me!)
It was January and my new baby was four weeks old. I was besotted and so happy to be a mother of…
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Are you who you want to be?
I’ve had good reason to reflect today and gone back to a question I was asked a few years ago by a…
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Moving on from Headship: Where do you start?
Many of us with careers in education came into the work expecting we’d always be in teaching or education leadership. Our passion…
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