Category: Confidence
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Energise your team to make an impact
Energise your team to make an impact Richard Ferguson July 20, 2023 I talked in a previous blog about the significant challenge that leaders and leadership team face right now – tired and probably not performing to their full potential. Ground down from relentless pressure, managing ongoing uncertainty and low resilience levels, all exacerbated by the difficulties…
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Could your team do with a pep up?
Could your team do with a pep up? Richard Ferguson June 29, 2023 In the current challenging economic climate with the complexities of post pandemic, the pressure on leaders and leadership teams to deliver and truly lead and align organisations has never been greater. Fortunately, or unfortunately, depending on your perspective, we are now working…
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This too will pass!
This too will pass! Richard Ferguson February 25, 2022 Whilst walking the dogs along the river this morning it was hard not to notice how high the water was after all the rain and storms of the last week or so. I took a picture and remembered the same picture I took last year when…
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Are you driving, steering or drifting?
Whilst on the beach last week at home in Devon I came across a load of these small jelly fish washed up on the tide, I later found out that they were called, ‘By The Wind Sailor’ jellyfish and they originate in warmer seas but can end up being blown onto the South West coast…
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Do you take one day at a time?
I have talked many times before about the strive for mindfulness or being present and focussed on the job in hand, the here and now, rather than allowing oneself to get carried away ruminating about what might be or what has been. We cannot control what happens but we can control how we choose to…
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Is great leadership defined by what we stop?
I was reflecting earlier today, on my trundle round the snowy countryside with the dogs, about the nature of leadership – both personal leadership (of self) and the leadership of others (teams, functions, organisations). It was sparked by a number of conversations I had recently with different people – all with a similar refrain, the…
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Self-compassion – the gift that keeps giving
Despite attempting to practice what I preach and having a lot of tools at my disposal for maintaining a positive outlook and building my mental health, there are still always situations that floor me and create great opportunities to learn and grow. Last week I had a bit of a mini meltdown and slipped into…
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Is your \’why\’ enough to overcome your fear?
I have just returned from a long weekend in Rome with my younger daughter Maisy and am hugely appreciative of the fact we were able to go in the first instance and secondly to have had such a wonderful shared experience. We went to watch the rugby – the 3rd round of the 6 Nations…
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Outside In – the Magic Mirror
One of the things that holds organisations, teams and individuals back is the inability to see ourselves as others see us, we get locked into a view of the world that is framed by our perceptions and assumptions, which by definition are self-limiting. A case in point was a recent training experience with Tiggy, the…
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Every Day is a school day
I had an interesting experience at the weekend entering Tiggy, my Hungarian Wirehaired Vizsla, into her first working, test the result – fun, frustration, insights, learnings and humble pie! A working test, for the uninitiated, is designed to simulate the challenges of a working gundog, hunting and retrieving dummies on land and in water. Tiggy…