Five tips for organisations to help your mentoring programmes succeed and make more impact.

Thrive’s succession planning guide. A framework to guide you through succession planning, with simple steps and techniques to apply.

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.

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.

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.

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 you need as a manager, with tips and techniques that you can apply right now and see the impact.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 practical steps to take when you are facing redundancy, based on my experience of helping people in the same situation.

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.

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.

Launching the Coaching Connections programme at Queen’s University, an ILM Level 5 Coaching programme to support their internal coaching team.