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Advent Blog – What if …
‘Oh great, they’ve sent me Pollyanna’ said my boss in September 1988. It wasn’t meant as a compliment. Pollyanna was a character, played by Hayley Mills in the 1960 film of the same name. In the film, she’s relentlessly cheerful and she plays a game called ‘the glad...
Board of Experts Crunchy Tales
What makes it crunchy? I was recently offered the exciting opportunity to join the Board of Experts for CrunchyTales.com as an adviser. I joined as ‘Leadership Mentor’ and I was selected for this role because of my ‘particular vision and continuous effort in...
Rise
I rise early and it dawns on me again. Because there are moments, like sleep, when I forget what is happening all around me.As I write 3 billion people across the world have been told to STAY AT HOME.And as I write, I have a new vocabulary; social distancing,...
DO WELL BY ME!
Last month I facilitated a workshop for 50 managers and staff about workplace well-being. We focused on strategies that we can use to help ourselves and others around us, when things go wrong and we experience problems with our mental health. As part of the session I...
Advent Blog : It is the end, but the moment has been prepared for.
It’s almost a year since I said goodbye to my colleagues, as I left work to set off on a new adventure to run my own HR Consultancy, ImagoHR. It was an itch that I needed to scratch; I’d been dreaming about what it would be like to venture off on my own. I’d been...
#Inspire Me
Here’s the transcript of my speech at the ‘Women Mean Business’ Inaugural Event at Shrewsbury High School on 14th November 2019. The aim of the event was to inspire girls and young women, empowering them to make confident decisions about their futures, whatever path...
There’s Nothing to Fear – Overcoming Bias in Recruitment
It’s Halloween and children and adults around the country are dressing up, painting their faces, making themselves unrecognisable in costumes, acting out characters, carving pumpkins and generally being scary. Some love it, some hate it, and some are just not...
Time Moves On
It’s September and so our thoughts naturally turn to getting back into the swing of work after the summer holidays, the beginning of the new school year, starting college or University and the approach of the changing season.September has the momentum of moving us on,...
‘Keep Calm and Carry On’ – The Core Skills Required of a Remote Leader in a Crisis
Last month I went away on holiday, leaving sons 23 & 21 in charge of; the house, the three multigenerational dogs (one is Terry, a 5-month-old lurcher puppy), the cat and the fish.Being a control freak, I left lists, contingency food for all inhabitants and spare...
Multigenerational – it’s a dog’s life?
Recently we acquired a puppy…..and this got me thinking about multigenerational issues. You see, we already had two dogs, Rambo a 12-year-old Shiatzu and Alfie an 8 -year -old Springer Spaniel. These two dogs were settled; they slumbered their days away, eating...
Rock! Paper! Scissors! An Imago HR game changer
In the game Rock! Paper! Scissors! each player forms one of three shapes with their hands, using an outstretched arm. Rock (closed fist), paper (a flat hand) and scissors (a V shaped index and middle finger combo). In the simultaneous game there are only two possible...
What’s in the case?
Many times, during my long career in HR, I have found myself trying to sort out a tricky workplace situation.It takes time to examine everything from all the different points of view and really gain a deep understanding of the issue, what may have caused it and how it...
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