Within the last year, if you have managed to keep your job, first of all, well done. With the Covid situation, it has hit everyone in different ways. Whilst many are striving to survive, others are flourishing and with one of humanity's greatest strengths, we have all had to adapt. For the traditional office worker, a key adaptation is to work from home (WFH). For many years, having video calls with colleagues who are in a different office from yourself has been around. Bac

When was the last time someone thanked you for your work / contribution to something? How did that make you feel? When was the last time you thanked someone for their work or contribution to something? How did that make you feel? Sometimes (and quite often) saying thank you is overlooked or it is said in a very casual manner where the recipient isn’t impressed. A casual thanks can cause frustration and make the recipient generally feel crap about their contribution - their

Ok ok, the headline is a bit misleading. Click bait to get your attention! My post is about Resilience - ‘the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness’ My business partner and I were talking about a few things and he joked about me writing a blog post of my favourite football team. Well what can I tell you, to me, Heart of Midlothian is the best football team in the world, so here I go….sort off…. The conversation got me thinking about how to apply my footba

I’m delving slightly deeper into changing the mindset of individuals or teams. Often when I am working with someone, they have firm beliefs on a given subject. This could be born out of pure habit or something they have always been told from school or university. Or in the corporate world, because they are told by a report that all is well! A simple example in the tech world, it is reported that the companies email system is running perfectly well, so in the mind of the tec