by Alison Reid | Sep 25, 2019 | Leadership
Feed the positive, starve the negative I was recently introduced to the current affairs magazine, Positive News, which reports on the good things that are happening in the world rather than the bad. For example, the latest issue features rewilding in Sussex, a...
by Alison Reid | Sep 19, 2019 | Leadership
What’s your Missing Conversation? When I’m working 1-1 with professionals, I often discover a Missing Conversation. For example, there was the finance manager who wanted to know her prospects for promotion yet was afraid to have the conversation with her...
by Alison Reid | Aug 21, 2019 | Leadership
Attention out Sitting in a traffic jam in town the other day, I saw a friend walking past on the pavement close by. I called out to him several times, but he was lost in thought, walking along head down, seemingly unaware of the world around him. Being lost in thought...
by Alison Reid | Aug 5, 2019 | Leadership
Why give meditation a second chance I’ve been meditating almost daily for over 6 years. Now let me qualify that : I assume the position on the sofa first thing every morning then set InsightTimer for 20 minutes – it marks the start and end of my session and every 5...
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...
