Over the last two months I have become much clearer about the overall structure of the book series that I am writing. Called, The Concepts Series, it draws on my working experiences and the lifelong learning that I have been engaged in. This blog post describes my current thinking about the through-line of these books. … Read more
In ‘Values Count’ (my previous book) I wrote about values based working. That book looked at why working from values is so important. In my new book (“Insight Coaching” coming soon), which I am in the midst of writing, I look further at values based approaches, and look at how they can be applied to the coaching process. … Read more
We look at what is measurable rather than what is meaningful (Warren Buffet) You may already be aware that I work in the world of research in my day job. It’s a place obsessed with measurement. If something looks really interesting and of value, the next step is to look for a measure. Is … Read more
It’s over a year since “Values Count” was published. In that time, I have had the experience of sitting with a few of the readers telling me what they found useful in the book. One of them had written all over the book (thanks Jayne!) and apologised for the mess she had made of it. … Read more
Imagine the scenario, you’ve seen that I have published a book “Values Count”. You realised that it came out back in February of this year. You would love to read it – but you don’t want to buy it in paperback. Either you live outside the UK or you just love reading books in digital … Read more
Earlier in the week I mentioned that my new book has just been published and is available on Amazon. Here are the opening paragraphs from the Introduction: “It’s all about the money – that seems to be the measure by which everything is judged these days. Every day we hear about new scandals relating to … Read more
A few years ago on this blog I wrote a post called “What’s he building in there?” It came after a long break when I had written nothing. The title was taken from a song by Tom Waits. In it, Waits describes someone who is in his barn building something. The neighbours can hear the … Read more
There are eight people in the team that I lead. Last summer it was feeling like we were flying around and hardly ever having time to reflect, time to work together and to plan our future. We were so busy in delivery mode that we had little time to see the bigger picture. Tentatively I … Read more
Writing – a whole day dancing around the writing task. It’s a familiar pattern. Recently I started listening to the archive of podcasts called ‘Page Up‘ by Angela Lauria. There are some interesting ideas about writing and publishing in each episode. She acknowledges that there are different types of writers. Some write little and often, doing … Read more
Over this series of blog posts, I have set out the 6 core values that underpin the work that I lead in the NHS here in England. As I have explained, these values have been teased out through work carried out by external researchers who looked at the impact of our work on the health … Read more