Building confidence: strategies for professional and personal growth

Confidence is a vital attribute that influences how we communicate, make decisions, and seize opportunities in both our professional and personal lives. Developing and maintaining confidence can lead to greater job satisfaction, improved performance, and overall well-being. Here are several strategies to help you build and enhance your confidence: Recognise and celebrate your achievements Regularly […]
Speaking up in meetings

Speaking up in meetings can be challenging, especially if you’re naturally introverted or struggle with confidence in a room full of colleagues. However, your voice matters, and contributing effectively can enhance your professional presence, build credibility, and ensure your ideas are heard. Here are some key strategies to give you more confidence and impact speaking […]
Navigating the Stages of Team Development

Understanding how teams evolve is crucial for leaders, managers, and team members alike. One of the most widely recognised models of team development is Bruce Tuckman’s Stages of Team Development, which describes how teams progress from first coming together through to becoming mature and high-performing. Recognising and appreciating these stages—Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing, and Adjourning—can […]
Unlocking your team’s potential: the power of away days

With fast paced demands and hybrid working, the opportunity to step back, reflect, and reconnect as a team is more important than ever. Team away days aren’t just a break from routine: they’re an investment in your team’s culture and collective success. Done right, they’re also really good fun. And I believe fun is […]
Are your team meetings boring?

As a facilitator for team away days, I’ve noticed teams often want help to get the balance right in their team meetings between sharing useful information… and having to listen to colleagues drone on. Or between having a professional, structured agenda… and being plain bored. An effective way to enhance the flow of team […]
Wish you could stop replaying moments that make you feel bad?

We all have memories we’d rather forget – embarrassing situations, arguments, or things we wish we’d done differently. These things tend to replay on a loop inside our heads. Maybe it’s something you said in a meeting, an argument that spiralled out of control or an awkward encounter. While you can’t change what happened, you […]
Hate Networking?

Does the very word ‘networking’ make you cringe and want to curl up and stay in bed? I think mostly the problem lies in the word ‘networking’ itself. It makes meeting people sound strategic, forced and frankly a chore. Whereas actually when we meet people, it’s generally enjoyable and life-enhancing. As well as possibly beneficial […]
Liven up your team meetings

Team meetings are the cornerstone of team dynamics and team relationships so it’s important to make your meetings relevant, meaningful and enjoyable. Even good team meetings can start to feel a little formulaic if you follow a fixed agenda every time, so here’s a few ideas to liven things up. Skill sharing. Make space in […]
What do you want?

Here’s a tip to get your subconscious mind on your side. When you’re thinking about or verbalising your goals, express what you want in positive terms. Often when we’re asked what we want, we can slip into expressing what we don’t want – “I don’t want to feel stressed”, “I don’t want to be in […]
Walking with Grace and Power

Walking and breathing – if we’re able-bodied, we all know how to do that, right? Well, maybe we do but have you ever thought about how you can harness the power of these simple, subconscious actions to empower yourself and improve your performance? It’s a simple and effective tool. John Grinder, co-founder of NLP […]