It was a complete side swipe. She sat in tears across from me re-living the circumstances for her recent exodus from an organisation she loved, after many happy years. It was obvious that the new manager was completely out of his depth and directing his insecurities at her. But why was it impacting her so…
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Toxic Manager: Transforming their impact
The Fall of Charity
A friend recently resigned from her role after 23 years of service to the same organisation. You would’ve said her blood is the colour of the logo, she was thatinvested in the organisation and the people she served. But grievingly she stepped away, because the organisation turned her role and others’ upside down, and she…
Change was always the norm
When I am presenting on a session, in particular around planning, I ask my clients what they want to get out of the day, their reply is usually “I want to be better at time management or planning my time better.” or “I want to feel more in control”. This always makes me smile because…
Finding Control through Chaos
He sat in front of me, shoulders hunched, moving his empty flat white to the side and said: “I used to love my job, was so proud that I worked for this organisation because I could see the difference it was making in our community. Now it’s about the numbers, I constantly feel like I…
Negative Vs Positive
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve posted two very different calls to action on social media channel. One was entitled “I am cranky”, it’s had 110 likes, 32 comments and 12K views, the other, was asking viewers to acknowledge and celebrate a recent success of theirs or someone they admire in their workplace, this has…
Healthy Mindful Teams
GUEST BLOG CHARLOTTE THAARUP – THE MINDFULNESS CLINIC The demands on teams in 2019 are very different from the demands of more stable, predictable environments decades ago. Today’s teams are characterised by endless change, increasing work demands and high levels of stress. This makes our dependency on healthy strong relationships more acute and essential. Healthy…
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