Category: Leadership

5 Steps to Confident Presenting

The thought of presenting or performing can be an overwhelming process. Anxiety can override you and mask the great ability that you have. It can damage your chance of success and make the build up a terrible experience. One that makes you avoid taking new opportunities to stretch […]

Leaders get people to help

Ahead of delivering a leadership training programme this week, I wanted to outline one of the greatest skillets that I believe leaders possess: the ability to solve problems that they don’t know how to solve.  Or in other words ‘getting people to want to help you to do […]

The power of collective clapping

As Jessica Ennis prepared for the long jump in the 2012 Olympics, the crowd urged her toward success. The familiar clapping began. Starting slowly and gradually speeding up as she was about to take off. This kind of support is to be expected in Athletics finals. Especially when there is a Gold […]

3 ways to channel frustration

Last week I had coffee with Lisa who worked with me as an intern. She’s a super motivated, talented graduate, ready for a new challenge and to throw her energy into the working world. She’d got a really cool opportunity to go and do a slightly better paid internship […]

My thoughts on Awesomeness Fest…

A learning playground for over 260 entrepreneurs from over 40 counties, held on a paradise Island in Phuket, Thailand. When you say you have just got back from an event called Awesomeness Fest, people usually react in one of two ways. Either saying “Wow, that sounds epic..” or […]