Mastering Remote Management: Insights from a Leadership Coach
Tips for managing a team remotely, whether that’s fully remote, perhaps even across different time zones, or if you are managing a hybrid team who works a few days in the office and the rest of the time at home.
Making a success of mentoring
Five tips for organisations to help your mentoring programmes succeed and make more impact.
Succession Planning: A Guide for Managers
Thrive’s succession planning guide. A framework to guide you through succession planning, with simple steps and techniques to apply.
Tackling Difficult Conversations as a Manager
Difficult conversations are an unavoidable aspect of people management, though one that many try to avoid, but they're also opportunities for growth and development. Having these types of conversations isn’t easy. Here are some simple but impactful strategies that you can adopt to help you tackle difficult conversations with confidence and empathy.
5 Steps to break the cycle of overwhelm
In this article, I share 5 steps, all with practical actions based on evidence from psychology and neuroscience research, to support you to break the cycle of overwhelm and to feel more in control, and happier and more productive, both in at work and home.
Talent management for managers
As a manager, you play a pivotal role in talent and people management. Here’s some key questions to ask yourself and some ideas to not only benefit your team and enhance their performance, but also to make your life as a manager easier.
Using a coaching approach in meetings
Meetings can be difficult. A good chair, who has spent time preparing in advance, and who can manage the dynamics of a group can make a huge difference. In this blog I am going to talk about using coaching to make a difference in meetings.
5 Key coaching skills that every manager needs
5 key coaching skills that you need as a manager, with tips and techniques that you can apply right now and see the impact.
Coaching for Leaders and Managers: What is the Benefit and How do I get Started?
As a manager using a coaching approach can improve engagement, motivation and the performance of your team, and it can make your own life easier. Straightforward tips to get you started and immediately see the benefits.
Tips for introducing coaching into your organisation
Do you want to introduce coaching into your organisation, but you're not quite sure where to start? I get asked about this time and time again, so here are my tips to get you started, along with a guide to help you work through four key steps.
How to manage our inner critic
Many of us have a very loud and active inner critic. In this blog, learn 3 steps to tame and manage your own inner critic.
Self sabotage, how we do it to ourselves and how to stop it
We all self-sabotage, sometimes without even realising it. Learn what it is, my own experience of self-sabotage, and how we can get past it.
2 easy ways to deal with difficult situations – even in the moment!
We all face difficult situations. Wouldn’t it be nice if you had some way of dealing with those challenges? Here’s a couple of my favourite techniques.
6 strategies for managing your stress
Are you feeling stressed? Read this to understand stress more, its impact on your health and learn 6 strategies for controlling your stress and supporting your wellbeing.
Tips for managing your time working from home - in a global pandemic
We are almost a year into the pandemic, and lockdowns, and, for some of us, working from home.
It's not getting easier, for anyone, so here are a few tips.
How to help ourselves as we head into winter, in the midst of a pandemic.
These are my suggestions of small practical steps that we can take to help ourselves. Not only to get through the next few months, but to build our resilience and lay down the foundations of a better life for ourselves.
Tips for managing remotely when you realise that your team isn’t all heading back to the office
The current Coronavirus crisis has meant that many people have very quickly had to adapt to working from home. The speed of the change was phenomenal and definitely difficult for many organisations and their staff. Working in a global pandemic is challenging, most certainly for those key workers that we all depend on, but also for those working from home, often trying to manage childcare, caring responsibilities, and their workload. Add to this that we are all dealing with the emotional impact of the lockdown and the worries that a global pandemic brings.
6 Tips to help when you are faced with redundancy
6 practical steps to take when you are facing redundancy, based on my experience of helping people in the same situation.
Getting started with mindfulness
A guide to get you started with mindfulness. Simple practices that you can incorporate easily into your daily life and start to feel the benefit immediately.
HOW'S YOUR TIME MANAGEMENT BEEN THIS WEEK?
Do you have a to-do list that never ends and not enough time to get everything done? Learn how to use some easy systems and tools to take back control and manage your time.