by Alison Reid | Sep 2, 2020 | Leadership
Befriend reality I was really looking forward to our long-planned holiday in Wales last week anticipating lots of fresh air, walking and relaxing. The reality was that I was laid low with a cold (just a cold, not flu, but I don’t do colds lightly), my husband...
by Alison Reid | Aug 14, 2020 | Leadership
It’s ok to ask Covid-19 has meant many of my clients’ hopes and expectations of career progression have been sabotaged, at least for now. Appraisals have been postponed, promotions have been delayed, people that were going to be moving on...
by Alison Reid | Jul 31, 2020 | Leadership
Don’t just do something, sit there! I wish I could say that I invented the title of this blog myself but I came across it at an online session on meditation run by Cambridge Buddhist Centre (one benefit of lockdown is being able to access stuff from my sofa that...
by Alison Reid | Jul 17, 2020 | Leadership
Are you afraid of saying something stupid? One particularly vivid memory I have from school is being in an English class in the final year of the girls’ school I was in – I would have been 15 or 16. Our gloomy English teacher, Mrs Duffy, was asking a...
by Alison Reid | Jul 3, 2020 | Leadership
Don’t take the monkey May I introduce you to Alex. Alex is a finance manager in a tech company. She’s struggling to keep her head above water at the moment as she fields demands from all directions – her boss, her colleagues, her clients, not to...
