Brené Brown is a social researcher and an expert on vulnerability. She has 30 million hits on her Ted talk on vulnerability – (thank you Suzie Rice for introducing me to her). My colleague Angelique lent me the book and I couldn’t put it down –I read it in one go! The book’s theme is about rehumanisation and belonging. She states that “people are hard to hate close up” and that we need to be using generosity of spirit with our friends, colleagues and family, and move in close and humanise. Click here to read the full book review (published as part of the emc e-Newsletter Summer 2017 ..read more

Posted 17 Sept 2017: Resilience is like a Mobius strip. Resilience is the capacity to recover and spring back easily. A mobius strip is springy and can move easily all from one side of material responding seamlessly to movement and change effectively. How resilient a leader are you? Want to know more? For more details of the new emc coaching programme to help you develop resilience CLICK HERE The post Blog first appeared on Ethical Management Consulting ..read more

Posted 26 March 2017 Have you ever been coached and wondered what was going on in terms of process? Who has been the best coach you have experienced and how did they do it ? What’s the difference between coaching and mentoring and why use coaching and or mentoring ? I’ve been reflecting about coaching practice and wondered about the answers to these and other questions. Keen to hear all your views but in the meantime here’s where I am up to.   About me 
 I have been a coach for over 15 years and have helped over 200 people with their business issues. It is only in recent times that I h ..read more

Posted 22 Jan 2016: My passion is gardening  and I often wondered how I could transfer my patience with  nature to the business situation, because  after all business is life too. So we’ve started  writing about  the analogy of gardening to business in a publication called The Brain Garden. You may have a different passion but the lessons remain the same: What works for you in one environment may be transferable elsewhere Light bulb moments can happen when stretching your mind in a non linear way   Our taster for you today  is a mini chapter no 5 ..read more

Posted 16 January 2016:  A title of a recent national conference presentation by Tina Cook of emc. There’s more to business than shareholder value as stated by the Triple Bottom Line (TBL). How you attend to your own people, customers and the environment is critical. In addition research has shown by the Institute of Business Ethics (for those of you only interested in profit!) that attention to the TBL can reap substantial financial benefits anyway. You might be surprised at how easily TBL business principles can be applied to virtually any business sector across every industry ..read more

I recently presented a paper to The Institute of Cemetery and Crematorium Management (ICCM) conference where I discussed ways they could grow their business based on sound business management strategies. Like any other sector, ICCM members face challenges and competition and they need to grow their respective businesses, through a combination of improving their market share whilst at the same time working more efficiently.   You might be surprised at how easily fundamental business principles can be applied to virtually any business sector across every industry. The presentation covered s ..read more

Brené Brown is a social researcher and an expert on vulnerability. She has 30 million hits on her Ted talk on vulnerability – (thank you Suzie Rice for introducing me to her). My colleague Angelique lent me the book and I couldn’t put it down –I read it in one go! The book’s theme is about rehumanisation and belonging. She states that “people are hard to hate close up” and that we need to be using generosity of spirit with our friends, colleagues and family, and move in close and humanise. Click here to read the full book review (published as part of the emc e-Newsletter Summer 2017) Book revi ..read more

Posted 17 Sept 2017: Resilience is like a Mobius strip. Resilience is the capacity to recover and spring back easily. A mobius strip is springy and can move easily all from one side of material responding seamlessly to movement and change effectively. How resilient a leader are you? Want to know more? For more details of the new emc coaching programme to help you develop resilience CLICK HERE ..read more

Posted 26 March 2017 Have you ever been coached and wondered what was going on in terms of process? Who has been the best coach you have experienced and how did they do it ? What’s the difference between coaching and mentoring and why use coaching and or mentoring ? I’ve been reflecting about coaching practice and wondered about the answers to these and other questions. Keen to hear all your views but in the meantime here’s where I am up to.   About me 
 I have been a coach for over 15 years and have helped over 200 people with their business issues. It is only in recent times that I have exp ..read more

Posted 22 Jan 2016: My passion is gardening  and I often wondered how I could transfer my patience with  nature to the business situation, because  after all business is life too. So we’ve started  writing about  the analogy of gardening to business in a publication called The Brain Garden. You may have a different passion but the lessons remain the same: What works for you in one environment may be transferable elsewhere Light bulb moments can happen when stretching your mind in a non linear way   Our taster for you today  is a mini chapter no 5  on Roots taken from the Brain Garden  Word cou ..read more