Living in Tier 3 is interesting. You can go out and about, but you can’t visit each other in homes. Making friends becomes very challenging at the loss to your support network. As a mother, I am aware of how often I call my mum, my friends who have more experience to ask advice onContinue reading “External Validation”
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In a Minute
In a Minute! Where do the children learn these words? Where do adults learn this concept? What happened to having the natural human instinct which says just do it now? the impulse to really do something immediately because we know it is the right thing to do? I look at my children and with theContinue reading “In a Minute”
Getting your hands dirty
My children love to get their hands dirty and barefoot in the soil. It’s an earlier trip to the park today as the lovely heatewave means midday is just too hot! As business leaders, we are encouraged to coach, mentor, give the team space to deliver but how often do we really get our handsContinue reading “Getting your hands dirty”
Grateful good or Grateful Bad
We are always taught to be grateful leaders at work. I try to treach my children to be grateful… but when does gratefulness become a bad thing for business? There are some people in companies that are so grateful to have a job that it means they avoid any entrepreneurship activities. They keep doing theContinue reading “Grateful good or Grateful Bad”
Celebration or Appreciation
One of the major aspects at work and in life is recognising achievements to make people feel appreciated. The question how far do you go from recognition to celebration in order to engage your teams or your children? Watching the children grow up, they achieve so much such as first tooth, sitting up, first steps,Continue reading “Celebration or Appreciation”
#Diversity of Thought
So one of the words we are hearing these days from the industry is Diversity of Thought! In a family, with two children who are polar opposites, this is really true! Both my girls are absolutely different! My youngest woke me up this morning saying that she was worried as she had left her littleContinue reading “#Diversity of Thought”
I did it: I communicated about my blog
I did it! I communicated about my blog on LinkedIn! My first ever post was about taking this career break and the views and feedback was MASSIVE! I was even trending on the #Covid19! However, it’s interesting how much you start to doubt yourself when you haven’t got others to affirm your skills! A recruiterContinue reading “I did it: I communicated about my blog”
Asda – Wearing a Face-mask
Today was the first day that face masks were mandatory in the supermarkets in England. I wore one but my children didn’t. It was a strange feeling and I think I shouted at the Customer Services colleague as I thought he couldn’t hear me through the mask… queue grandma’s ensuring the other person on anContinue reading “Asda – Wearing a Face-mask”
That Guilty Feeling: Take a Stop day
That Guilty Feeling: Take a Stop Day As a working mum, you feel the guilt of not being around your children. Certainly, when I had my eldest and returned to work after 5 months, I got the guilt mum thrown at me from colleagues; both male and female. ‘How can you leave your baby atContinue reading “That Guilty Feeling: Take a Stop day”
Taking the Plunge- A Career Driven Moment
I’ve always been ambitious. Not in the ruthless way that you see in Hollywood’s depiction of corporate life! Career driven and ambitious, nonetheless! I have decided to take a career break to spend time with my two lovely daughters. Covid-19 working from home meant that I was torn between many things, and primarily my children.Continue reading “Taking the Plunge- A Career Driven Moment”
Skills Repeat 