This is a guest post by Su Fowler-Johnson – her second post on this site. You can see her first post here. I’ve always been interested in what makes people tick. Why we behave the way we do. What is it that drives us to want to be around some people more than others? What … Read more
I have been away for the last couple of weeks for a holiday in Italy. Now as September gets into full stride, schools are starting up again, universities will be underway soon too. The roads will fill with traffic again and from space we will all look like we are rushing around again. How much … Read more
One of the key principles of NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) is that we can learn a lot by looking at how other people who are highly effective function and extracting from that study ideas which we can implement ourselves. This is a really helpful practise. But it can be difficult to do when we are … Read more
The following are some notes I wrote 12 years ago when I was studying the work of Thomas Moore and James Hillman. Thomas Moore wrote the book ‘Care of the Soul’ which had an enormous influence on my thinking. He is a Psychotherapist, who spent time in monastic orders in a Catholic Monastery and had … Read more
I have come across the idea of a small group to provide peer support in a number of places. Michael Bungay Stanier, for example, has a Mastermind Group of half a dozen people who he speaks to regularly. They meet up at least once a year for a weekend together. He sees this group as … Read more
A few years ago I read an inspirational book by Michael Gelb called “How to think like Leonardo da Vinci“. It’s an amazing book to prompt different thinking and increase your powers of creativity. The book came to mind last week as I was thinking through some ideas in the day job. I want to … Read more
In the NHS in England we have had several years worth of initiatives which are designed to encourage innovation. For a monolithic entity that spends £110 billion a year and has 1.3 million staff, the rhetoric around the NHS began before the global economic crash with some approaches which were aimed at encouraging modernisation and … Read more
I wrote about Reflective Practise on this website a couple of years ago. My thinking has moved forward since then – you could say, the result of reflective practise itself! Here’s what I wrote back then: What do I mean by ‘Reflective Practise’? This is the regular habit of asking yourself questions about how you … Read more
Last week I worked with the team I lead on the values that underpin our work. A couple of years ago we commissioned an Impact Report. The team who led the work (Nick Fayers and Sue Roberts) interviewed our key stakeholders and produced some underlying metrics to assess the impact of our work. From the … Read more
I have spent today thinking some more about where I take the book manuscript which I have been trailing in this blog on coaching. It’s called “The Coaching 30” and comprises a set of tips and ideas for coaching. It is aimed at coaches and coaching clients. The ideas are taken from my own studies … Read more