END OF YEAR REFLECTIONS
When the year comes to an end, I always like to spend some time contemplating what the year has brought and how I have navigated through it. 2021 has seen some interesting changes, and at…
HEALTHCARE AND BIAS
Our health and wellbeing are one of the most precious assets we have. Having access to medical assistance when we need it and receiving this care has been identified as a human right. Medical staff…
UTILISING MATURE WORKERS
As we begin a return to normal after the pandemic, there seems to be a tremendous explosion in growth and opportunity making human resources more important than ever. As labour shortages and resignations increase across…
USING CHANGE TO GROW
The Global Pandemic has created great change at many levels. I attended a webinar recently in which the presenter gave numerous examples of how organisations have been able to rethink their internal processes and the…
SOCIAL COHESION
We have now moved into a hybrid model of working, where we will find many people coming into the office at different times and days. Some people will be working more from home and teams…
OFFERING AN ALTERNATIVE PERSPECTIVE
Giving advice to others is easy to do, but how often is it ignored and not followed through on? A technique I like in coaching conversations is to ask the question- ‘can I offer you…
BACK TO BACK MEETINGS
Back to back online meetings have become the norm over the last year and a half for most leaders. A coaching client I have been working with has constant back-to-back meetings for most of her…
SUNKEN COST BIAS
Sunk cost bias occurs when we have the tendency to continue investing time, effort, or money, because of what it has already cost us. In the past, I have had numerous situations where it was…
‘DATA MAKES PEOPLE THINK, EMOTION MAKES THEM ACT’
So says one of my mentors, Dr Alan Weiss. I have been speaking to a client who enjoys presenting data and is confident and enthused when talking about it. But many a time, this individual…
