by Alison Reid | Apr 13, 2021 | Career, Confidence, Leadership, Resilience
Watch your speed A couple of months back, I went on a Speed Awareness Course. My husband and I had been arguing while I was driving and, too late, I found I’d passed a speed camera over the limit in a 30mph zone. (I did the course, though we went halves on the...
by Alison Reid | Apr 7, 2021 | Career, Confidence, Leadership, Resilience
Worry less, achieve more I’ve done it again. I’ve spent way too much time worrying about what I’m going to write about in this week’s blog, worrying whether it’s the “right” topic, worrying that what I’ve written...
by Alison Reid | Mar 12, 2021 | Career, Confidence, Leadership, Resilience
It’s not you, it’s them A manager who finds fault in everything you do. A team member who’s abrupt and rude. A colleague who talks over you in meetings. These are just some of the challenges my clients bring to coaching sessions. Perhaps you can add...
by Alison Reid | Feb 26, 2021 | Career, Confidence, Leadership, Resilience
Manage less to lead more When I was growing up, in the days when cars were simpler and fathers did their own repairs, I would often find my Dad in our garage at the weekend – bonnet up, lamp in place, fiddling with the engine. Recently, I worked with an...
by Alison Reid | Feb 11, 2021 | Career, Confidence, Leadership, Resilience
Not guilty I had quite a bit of feedback on my last post Permission to Pace. This was partly because people identified with feeling fatigued and demotivated, but also because giving themselves permission to take the foot off the pedal is hard. Comments were along the...
by Alison Reid | Jan 22, 2021 | Career, Confidence, Leadership, Resilience
Permission to pace I took the opportunity of Christmas being “cancelled” to plough on with getting my book ready for the deadline with my editor. After a final push, I despatched the manuscript the Saturday before last. And then I fell off a cliff. Not...
