Reflection & Insights
Welcome to where personal reflection meets practical insight. Here, we delve into how things show up in the world, examining the subtle forces and overt challenges that mould and shape the impression we leave in people’s minds. I also share my more general musings on strategic thinking and, occasionally, life.
My writing aims to marry critical thinking with a dose of observational English wit. My goal is to bring you value in the form of new perspectives that might inspire, clarify, or motivate change so that we all become that little bit better every day.
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How to ensure you never lose your audience again.
We live in an era of great distraction. There is more information more readily available and constantly competing for our attention, a feeling of less time to take it all in, and as a result, we are more easily distracted than ever.
The energy of possibility
Coming into the workshop, everyone was caught up in their individual realities, playing the ‘survive the day-to-day’ game that so often takes over. It becomes consuming, narrow and frantic – and can be exhausting for leaders and teams alike.
Strategic storytelling in business
When it comes to pitching ideas and where you need to convince someone to back you, there are three things that make for consistently successful presentations.
A game of two halves
And just like that, there goes the Easter weekend.
For many clients, this is where the first-half performance starts to properly come into view. And with just over two months to go, the results are coming in as to what will and won’t make it across the line before the mid-way point of 2023.
So tell me, what’s happening out there?
This is one of the most common coffee questions I get asked. It’s right up there with, “What are you seeing happening? How are others going? What are people focusing on?”.
Shuo Shu and the art of storytelling
Everywhere you look, there’s a digital device with a face glued to it. Whether that’s on trains or planes, on the sofa, in meetings or even across the table at dinner. We’re truly living life through a lens. Full disclosure, I count myself as one of those people too – and this is certainly not a rant about how devices and the content we consume are changing society. Rest assured, I’ll keep that for another day. This is more a reflection on whether our digital reliance means we are losing our connection to storytelling.
One team outperforms a team of teams
I spend a lot of time with teams – executive teams and departmental leadership teams all the way through to operational units. One differentiating factor between them all is simply cohesion.
Managing feedback
It has been more than a little while since I have had such a substantial piece of work reviewed, critiqued and analysed. I can honestly say I went in optimistically nervous. I was invested in the idea of having an outside perspective to make my work as strong as possible, but if I am completely honest, I really wasn’t looking forward to it.
