by Alison Reid | Mar 10, 2023 | Leadership
Get underneath the surface Many years ago, when I was a manager in corporate, I had a team member who changed from being cheerful and open to sullen and withdrawn. She’d sit at her desk with her headphones on and avoid eye contact, making it difficult to...
by Alison Reid | Feb 27, 2023 | Leadership
Doing nothing is really something Matt* arrived at our coaching session wondering how to get stuff done without feeling rushed all the time. A marketing lead in a global technology company, he was in a good place after a period of adjustment bedding into a new role....
by Alison Reid | Jan 30, 2023 | Leadership
Surf the urge Much as I appreciate you reading this post, did you open it intentionally, or did you find yourself clicking into it on impulse? As I write this, it’s just after 8am in the morning. Even though I meant to get straight down to writing when I got to...
by Alison Reid | Jan 16, 2023 | Leadership
What state are you in? I’ve been thinking about state, the phenomenon we often call “state of mind”. It’s interesting that we often talk about state in a negative sense. We describe someone who’s particularly agitated or anxious as being...
by Alison Reid | Oct 17, 2022 | Leadership
Lessons in curiosity from a naked hiker One day back in the summer, I was walking up a quiet path in nearby woodland, when I saw something that made me do a double-take. Coming along the path I was about to join was a naked man wearing nothing but a backpack. I was...
by Alison Reid | Sep 16, 2022 | Leadership
Care less I recently listened to a Desert Island Discs episode featuring the late Raymond Briggs, author and illustrator famous for The Snowman. One of his anecdotes in particular stuck with me. He said that a motivating concern for his mother, Ethel, was what the...
