… Ages and Ages since I’ve done a blog post! I’ve been taking time to enjoy my family, yes, just us, and identify more with my role as a mother, a parent and a wife. I’ve been teaching myself to take it easy and not to try to plan all detail to the nth degree.Continue reading “It’s been a while”
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Pop goes the weasel
With leadership, we always advise to look at your individual team members and their own thoughts and perspectives. Despite all this, we have more similarities than differences. We are all drawn to natural light no matter how bright everything is around us. Even small children have this natural instinct. We have a natural magnetism toContinue reading “Pop goes the weasel”
Sweet and Bitter
The good times will just be normal if they happen all the time. The same with the bad times. A leader is someone who understands that they can’t make their team happy all of the time, neither can they deliver on time to spec all of the time too, neither can you celebrate at everyContinue reading “Sweet and Bitter”
Cool mornings
With three children, rarely is it a quiet morning getting ready. They all have differing needs and wants. Some are morning people and others are not. It’s the same as leading a team. The larger your team gets, the more you need to have consideration for. The main difference is having children means you knowContinue reading “Cool mornings”
Compare and Contrast
As much as we say we don’t, we are business leaders and we spend time ranking and comparing our team members to see who comes out at the top. This is something that really contradicts what we say we do- appreciate diversity in all of its forms. Comparing will exclude diversity, but let’s consider whetherContinue reading “Compare and Contrast”
Sometimes…
Sometimes we have a set perception of who we are and what we are meant to be doing at a particular time. However, the circumstances mean it just isn’t possible… As a business leader, you know that the priority is to achieve that customer deliverable. Sometimes, there is so much discord and distraction within yourContinue reading “Sometimes…”
End of the Holidays
We start back to school next Monday but we are now winding down all of our activities. School uniform is all purchased ready to be labelled and will be put into PE bags before the weekend, just to enjoy our last Saturday and Sunday as a whole family before the school run starts. When youContinue reading “End of the Holidays”
Taking a Break
It is the second-half of the summer holidays and the weather is encouraging us away from activities and into more thoughtful activities. It does feel like we have crammed so much in the first half that we forgot to pay attention to things like the local Library Reading Challenge (we made a trip today), artsContinue reading “Taking a Break”
Big Ideas
How do you feel when the schedule you have put together doesn’t go to plan? Not a great feeling, but being agile is so valuable these days and having the mental resilience to take ownership of it is underestimated. Planning all the activities we want to do this summer with the children has of courseContinue reading “Big Ideas”
The summer start
It’s been a very short amount of time but the long summer holidays looks short. We have been spending as much time outside as possible, in parks and in the garden. It’s funny how your perspective changes whether you are in work and out of work; just recently I would’ve been in an office mostContinue reading “The summer start”
Skills Repeat 