Being a great leader means knowing, and using, your leadership superpowers. But what are yours? And why do you even need to know? Well, while you go and dig out the lycra, Sarah Brown is here to shine her bat signal and help you identify your leadership superpowers and understand the benefits. Leadership superpowers Somebody recently asked me what my leadership...
You’re not alone. Research shows 80% of us break our resolutions by the first week of February and only 8% of us are successful. So how good are new year’s resolutions for our mental wellbeing? Sarah Brown is here to challenge your choice of resolution and give you some tips to create more meaningful ones. Where do new year’s resolutions come from? Apparently, the first new...
Menopause happens to every woman. Some may sail through it, others can find it debilitating. Just as every woman is unique, so is their experience of menopause. In this blog post, Sarah Brown shares her top tips to help you support the women in your life through menopause. Think it’s not going to affect you? Recently, I was alarmed by my...
Does your workplace have a happy culture? Do people talk about it in a positive way? According to Frances Frei and Anne Morris at Harvard Business Review, ‘Culture guides discretionary behaviour.’ So it’s important to get it right, then. The question is, how? In this blog post, Sarah Brown looks at why a happy culture is important and what you can...
We all know that we Brits speak differently depending on where we’re from. But just how differently? And does/should it matter? In this post, Sarah Brown tackles accent bias, inviting you to avoid snap judgements and preconceptions, and be more inclusive in the workplace. Accent bias in the spotlight Recently, ex-House of Lords member, Digby Jones, criticised BBC presenter Alex Scott’s...
Teaching soft skills. It’s what I do. It’s what I love. I once ran a talent programme within a large organisation and decided to take a chance on someone that had been dismissed by others. They rubbed people up the wrong way, had poor time management skills and couldn’t organise a kid’s tea party! A challenge to be had. The programme...
Brexit. It sounds like a name for a new cereal, doesn’t it? But for 48.11% of the population, it isn’t that appetising. It could otherwise be known as Groundhog Day, given the carnival of repetitive arguments that have transpired since the UK voted to leave the EU. In the words of Albert Einstein: “The definition of insanity is doing the same...
