I was speaking to a Canadian relative recently who has the pleasure of working from anywhere in the world, so she normally chooses countries in the Caribbean, South America or Africa. She’d rather be in the sunshine despite her deep love of poutine. This is one of Canada’s national dishes and is made up of chips drenched in gravy and cheese...
Have you ever done one of those personality profile tests where you’re given a colour? And no, I don’t mean one of those quizzes to find out which house you’d be in at Hogwarts. What I’m talking about is where some magic monkeys, also not at Hogwarts, perfectly sum up my personality and communication style based on the 25 questions I...
Are you ready for the crash, which this year seems doubly cruel because Mother Nature and her chum, El Nino, have decided to lay on a heatwave for us just as we’re all trudging back to work? According to many websites and magazines with space to fill, the September blues are a thing. It's common to get feelings of anxiety '...
Me too. And I’ve been going mental for months now, just starting to come out the other side. Why did I get ill? We. Don’t. Know. And I’ve been sending myself around the bend trying to work it out. Could it be a cumulative response to the perfect storm? Hormones – hello perimenopause - a main contender, having experienced the previous...
Who’s watching the FIFA Women’s World Cup at the moment? Who’s watching it from behind the sofa? Me too. Thankfully for England fans everywhere, the Lionesses are a lot cooler than I am - even in the most highly pressurised of all sporting situations: the dreaded penalty shootout… And the good news is that we can replicate their cool-headedness when we...
We all know someone who sucks the life out of a room when they walk into it, right? The kind of person who people draw straws not to sit next to at the Christmas Party because they’ve always got a worse problem than the person with the problem. If you’re ill, they’re sicker. If you’ve got tendonitis, they’ve got elevendonitis. If...
Are you a leader juggling so many plates you’re considering a side job as an acrobat? Are you always rushing from one meeting to the next at the speed of an F1 racing driver without the pit crew? Do you feel overwhelmed by constant demands on your time and attention? You are not alone. A regular theme I hear time and...
It’s that time of year when Wimbledon has been upon us, with two weeks of lobs, tosses, backs hands and lemon barley. It’s also a time of year that I often hear the word ‘love’. In tennis, love is used as a term in the scoring system and literally means nothing (one hypothesis suggests it comes from the French word “l’oeuf”,...
Do you have a work bestie? You know, a BFF you spend lunch breaks with or can go to when you’re on the brink of going into HR and screaming into a pillow? In this blog post, Laura Drury shares how friendship at work may be the key to psychological safety and productivity. Positive benefits of friendship Like most, whenever I...
