Business Psychologist
It’s getting really close isn’t it? Christmas. In my conversations with leaders and organisations over this last month, the following themes emerge consistently: People are tired (some are burnt out)People are just looking forward to the end of the year and holidaysPeople just want 2020 to be over with These sentiments are very ‘human’, shared …
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I am fortunate that I get to spend most of my consulting work as an Organisational Psychologist in my areas of passion – leadership and culture. Every new organisation, executive team or individual leader brings with them unique challenges and I am grateful for the opportunities to apply my craft in a way that makes a …
Most of the things we achieve in our professional and personal lives come about because of conversations. Some of the conversations we have as leaders, colleagues, partners or parents come easier (almost effortless), whilst others we agonise over and often avoid. It might be giving someone some feedback, asking for help, asking for a change …
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This is the word I am hearing most often from my webinar participants, coaching clients and collegial coffee catch ups. If you stop to look at a definition of overwhelmed: To be buried or drowned beneath a huge mass of something you get the picture. Its quite visual and really reflects exactly what a lot …
In much of my leadership and culture work in organisations, one of the most paralysing effects I see is that of learned helplessness. The term originated in early clinical experiments on animals (see Martin Seligman’s work in the late 60’s/early 70’s) and can be expressed as: “When humans or other animals start to understand (or believe) …
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