by Alison Reid | Jun 18, 2020 | Leadership
The other day, I went off-piste. I’d been feeling groggy all week and woke up tired again. However, after I did my usual 20 minute meditation, rather than just going up to my desk as I would usually, I curled up on the sofa with a blanket and closed my eyes....
by Alison Reid | Jun 2, 2020 | Leadership
When my husband and I first met, he used to joke that he was my “No 1 fan”. He buoyed me up with words of encouragement and celebrated what went well for me. He even came and cheered me on at a tennis match. (He’s still very supportive though, 10 years on, he...
by Alison Reid | May 13, 2020 | Leadership
Are you suffering from the Covid-19 phenomenon of Zoom fatigue? That feeling of, “not another Zoom meeting/quiz/virtual drinks” (delete as appropriate)? According to experts, the reason we find video chat harder than face-to-face conversation is that we...
by Alison Reid | Apr 22, 2020 | Leadership
The other weekend, I was on a creativity course. One of the exercises was in pairs and involved one person talking for 10 minutes about something they wanted to create whilst the other person listened. The “listener” had only two interventions they were allowed to use...
by Alison Reid | Apr 9, 2020 | Leadership
Last week, I hosted the first of 4 weekly conversations about how to rise above lockdown. One of the challenges that emerged was how to make the most of our time over the coming weeks, and possibly months. Whilst we all have the same situation of enforced time at...
by Alison Reid | Mar 24, 2020 | Leadership
How are you bearing up in these incredibly challenging times? I’m feeling a bit like we’re in a real-life disaster movie, a bad dream that turns out to be reality when you wake up. When I googled movies about killer viruses, it turns out that many are...
