by Alison Reid | Sep 10, 2020 | Leadership
Confidence has a bad press. It’s often dismissed as not being a serious contender in what helps or hinders high-achievers from unleashing their leadership potential. In this post, I share a sneak-peek from the book I’m writing, “Unleash your...
by Alison Reid | Sep 2, 2020 | Leadership
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 injured his leg on...
by Alison Reid | Aug 14, 2020 | Leadership
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 (sabbatical/secondment) aren’t...
by Alison Reid | Jul 31, 2020 | Leadership
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 would normally be out of my reach!)...
by Alison Reid | Jul 17, 2020 | Leadership
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 question about (I think) the interpretation of a...
by Alison Reid | Jul 3, 2020 | Leadership
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 mention her team. Alex has...
