Becoming more resilient is about achieving higher levels of performance through managing the pressure of work better. Managing resilience is a positive, constructive aspect of performance. Resilience is the way you choose to respond to something that could be potentially traumatic and ensuring it is not. Resilience arises from self awareness, the right mindset and […]
I’m tired of this As fatigue sets in, our ability to respond degrades. You know the feeling – you are reading something and realise that you have taken none of it in and have to go back and start again. It’s that ‘war weary’ feeling of trying to mentally pick yourself up, dust yourself down […]
I know what it’s like. I’ve been there. 18 hour days cycling in all weather conditions high up in the remote Rockies, miles from civilisation, on my own, sleep deprived, hungry and physically tired. The effect was to reduce the quality of my decisions to worse than those of a drunk. I should not be […]
I’ve got to thinking that we may be missing a trick in the way we develop resilience in employees. It only took me 2,725 miles for me to have this epiphany, but I think I am onto something. I recently participated in the Tour Divide, the self-supported mountain bike race that goes between the border […]
“I’m just being practical, but I don’t see how we can make this work,” he said. The team had come up with an idea built on their workplace skills and interests outside of work. It was a novel idea that on the face of it sounded exciting, but took little effort to find flaws in […]
First published in BDaily on 26 March 2018 Watching Britain’s Menna Fitzpatrick and guide Jen Kehoe win gold in the women’s visually-impaired slalom at the Winter Paralympics in Pyeongchang was impressive – two very talented athletes working together to achieve the ultimate sporting prize, an Olympic gold medal. If only we had those genes and […]
First published BDaily on 26 February 2018 I believe there is a rolling population of somewhere around 2 to 2.5 million people who remain an untapped treasure trove of talent, ability and value. Who are they? New parents. Each year there are roughly 600,000 children born in the UK. For the first couple of years […]
I, like many, am in awe of Mark Beaumont who recently cycled around the world in 78 days, 14 hours and 40 minutes, covering an average of 230 miles a day. How on earth did he keep going? What lessons are there for us mere mortals? Have you ever wondered why healthy people like Mark […]
I crashed whilst mountain biking in the Pyrenees last week. It hurt. Ten days have now passed and tomorrow I will have my tenth ‘first’ examination of the injuries. Each time the conclusion has been to refer me onwards, and at each link in the chain they have repeated the same first examination and induced […]
First published in the HR Director on 9 May and Insights (Chartered Management Institute) 11 May 2017 Our obsession with well-calculated and polished communications is nuts. We have conflated the ability to communicate well with the ability to do a good job. And it’s wrong. It is driving a lazy approach to understanding that is costing us all access […]