Historically, there was expectation that to be a good leader, you had to be bulletproof and show no weakness, make no mistakes and certainly show no negative emotion. This lead to leaders masking their true selves and not being authentic. Instead, fitting the corporate mould to ensure they met the expectations of the company they … Continue reading We Can’t Always Be Perfect – Owning Your Leadership Mistakes
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Earlier this year, I was asked if I would be interested in returning to my secondary school as the Guest of Honour for their annual Prizegiving and Speech Day event. I had only been back once since I left in 2003, so for me, this was a big deal. As I share below in my … Continue reading WGS Speech Day 2023 – An Honour to return
It's been a while since my last post, and since today has been such an inspiring day, I thought it was a good opportunity to get back to writing. I was given an opportunity through an internal Leadership Programme, to attend a conference of choice. I decided to go for something outside of the usual … Continue reading Coaching Culture 2022 – A Day of Inspiration
I'm starting 2022 in a more senior role, and it has been an aspiration for the last few years to build myself up to this point. I've learned so much since I left my first role in management in 2018 and moved towards more senior leadership roles. One of the big things I believe I … Continue reading Building a World Class Test Team
For so long, it's been assumed that we all have to follow the same communication processes that the company requires us to use to do our jobs. This may be true, but within that, there are intricacies which can help ensure the best communications possible in a given scenario, equally there are some things which … Continue reading Introducing The Communications ReadMe
By this part of the series, we have covered how to open the job market up to a wider talent pool and have looked into how to make Job Specs inclusive, the next step is to look at how we can make the interview process more accessible for all candidates, not just those classed as … Continue reading Neurodiversity in the Workplace – Part 3: Accessible Interviews
Following on from Part 1, the next step of the process is to look at how we can all make the hiring process more inclusive for Neurodiverse talent. We will look at the job advert in this part, looking at how to make them as inclusive as possible. The Job Spec is a Window into … Continue reading Neurodiversity in the Workplace – Part 2: Inclusive Job Specs
As part of my journey in learning more about Neurodiversity and doing my bit in helping make the workplace accessible for all both now and in the future, I felt it was time to start putting my learnings to paper and hope that my tiny circle of influence can get something from my ramblings. Not … Continue reading Neurodiversity in the Workplace – Part 1: Finding Work
In the season of festive films, in our house, one film in particular is on almost constant repeat. That is the film Arthur Christmas. It got me thinking as I watched it with my boys again today, that really it’s a family animated film that looks at the full operational process of delivering 2 billion … Continue reading Arthur Christmas – Fighting for the Customer
Following up from my previous post, I thought it would be a good idea to dive deeper into the idea of the Quality Narrative. As mentioned in that blog, I first came across the term from the 'Leading Quality' book by Ronald Cummings-John (@ronaldcj) and Owais Peer (@owaispeer). The book is a great reference for … Continue reading Defining your Story – Owning Your Quality Narrative
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