by Alison Reid | Jul 23, 2019 | Leadership
Making mistakes means you’re human Last week, a technical issue resulted in me losing almost all registrations for my current webinar series twice in 24 hours. It was bad enough asking people to re-register the first time it happened, but when I needed to ask...
by Alison Reid | Jul 4, 2019 | Leadership
Choose progress over perfection Recently, I co-facilitated a leadership programme that I hadn’t delivered before. The programme had already been designed so, after the other facilitator and I had agreed what sessions we were going to lead, it was just a matter...
by Alison Reid | Jun 10, 2019 | Leadership
The path to recognition is paved with confidence A road sweeper is one of the individuals nominated for and recognised in this year’s Queen’s Birthday Honours list. Thomas Ardle, a 61-year-old street cleaner, received his British Empire Medal (BEM) for...
by Alison Reid | May 30, 2019 | Leadership
Disarm your inner critic Do you have a voice in your head? A rather unpleasant one that tells you things like you’re not good enough, or you could have done something (presentation, meeting, report – fill in the blank) so much better? Or you don’t...
by Alison Reid | May 1, 2019 | Leadership
How not to be disappointed News emerged last week that the Mona Lisa, painted by Da Vinci in the 16th century, has been rated the most disappointing sight in Europe by British tourists, who regard it as a “let-down”. Holidaymakers were also underwhelmed by...
