If you have encountered pay scales in the NHS, you will be aware that they were overhauled a few years ago. This was done using something called the Knowledge and Skills Framework (KSF) which was the basis on which comparative grades were built up in the service. The theory was that skills could be compared … Read more
The model which follows was developed in a coaching session with a client who was experiencing a process of massive change for the organisation that she was leading. At these times it is often difficult to see ‘the wood for the trees’. One can easily feel overwhelmed with the volume of work that needs … Read more
OK, so you have a crisis on your hands. And then that is followed with another crisis. You are really clear that the challenge for you above everything else is to find a way to avoid feeling sorry for yourself. Finding a way to ensure that you don’t start to look for as many things … Read more
So we all find it difficult at times to apply ourselves to the things that need doing, when there are lots of things that don’t need doing, but we want to do because they are fun! This morning I was supposed to be settling to the redrafting of the new book which I feel like … Read more
Over the coming weeks I will be posting excerpts from a new booklet which I am working on. Called ‘The Coaching 30’ it will be available as a pdf downloadable file with 30 sections, each giving a tip or suggestion which I use in my coaching practise. Some of these tips will be ideas which … Read more
I am in the middle of a few hours working on the ‘Archetypes at Work’ manuscript. I have pushed the word count up to 18,000 words which is really encouraging. I have just used a quote from Bartok: “What is new and significant must always be connected with old roots, the truly vital roots that … Read more
Archetypal Descriptors are evident in the work of Handy, Morgan and Neville & Dalmau. In most cases a formal mythological framework is used. Most commonly this tends to be Greek Mythology, since this is a symbolic structure with a wide currency. Having set out the limits to the approaches already developed in this area, the … Read more
The brain works best when it has a pattern to recognise. When we are young this is how we multiply the capacity to learn. Rather than seeing everything as fresh and having to decode it, we search through our neurone connections for something that resembles what we are seeing. So, when we see a dog, … Read more
The key to great biography work as part of a process of self-development is to ask great questions. A few years ago I met Rennie Fritchie who shared with me the ideas she had about Biography Work. She published on this. I tried the exercise which focused on 9 key questions – and the results … Read more
There are two principles which have helped me to increase my productivity recently. They occurred to me during a coaching session. The inbox isn’t our work For those of us who spend a lot of time working with email it is easy to become caught up in the illusion that the inbox is the workplace. … Read more