It's that time...full of good intentions, we set resolutions for the year ahead. We join a gym, tell our friends we're going 'to write that book', tell the scales we'll lose that weight and resolve to save a fortune. Great idea - in principle. In practice, most gym memberships lapse unused, most books remain [...]
This issue has cropped up in those ‘Can I just ask you something…’ moments at the end of workshops a fair bit lately. Usually the questioners are in the early stage of their careers, don’t know who to turn to and what to say. It’s a tricky one for us trainers and facilitators [...]
As a recovering perfectionist (I’ll keep trying until I’ve perfected it), I can honestly say I’ve been on both sides of this experience. As the employee, I’ve felt the dejection when something I’ve worked hard at gets the ‘red pen treatment’, i.e. nothing but fault-finding and criticism; ‘must try harder’. Yet as a manager, I’ve also felt [...]