Last week a friend told me a story of a colleague she’s been encouraging to spread his wings and take on a bigger role. As a chap suffused with a healthy self-awareness he was doubting his ‘fit’ as he’d ‘never done half the things the role demanded’. He lamented [...]
Space Monsters! Ever been sitting with your pals, cracking happily on about whatever however, when whoooomph, the Space Monster lands. Chomp, chomp, chomp the Space Monster is just eating through your words, your air, your very presence seems to disappear under their almighty, all consuming Self! [...]
This is not a blog about navigating uncertainty, languishing, disconnection, pivots and any of the other buzz words flooding the leadership chatter. It’s not about the flattened panopticon of the Zoomiverse and it’s absolutely not mansplaining how you, as a leader, must be feeling. This is a [...]
“Jo – oh -oh!” oh good lord here we go my inner voices mutters as I hear the client graft a couple of extra and unnecessary syllables, Scooby Doo style, onto my sufficiently syllabled name. “Can you just…….?” I feel her metaphorical teeth sink in as the energy-care-attention suck [...]
The children huddled closer together, skin touching skin, seeking shelter from the curious eyes of the onlookers. They shuffled and bent their slender bodies into one another melding into a seamless bundle of body and cloth, sweat and limbs entwining forming a oneness against the many that had come [...]