The Queen's Diary
Sorry we missed You!
When performance targets tip from stretch to strain, behaviour changes. Why sustainable leadership matters more than squeezing numbers.
Can you relate?
My principles, personality, and values had quietly taken over the steering wheel. Fairness matters to me. Accountability matters. Being treated properly as a customer matters. And once those values are triggered, I can dig my heels in like a champion.
Why December Turns Grown Adults into Overstimulated Toddlers
Pressure. Expectations. Unspoken rules. Family dynamics. Cultural norms. End-of-year fatigue. Then add in alcohol, deadlines and a credit card and suddenly rational humans behave… well let’s just say irrationally.
The Value of Connections: Beyond the Stage
The beauty of a gathering like this is not in the individual brilliance of each presenter, but in the collective impact of shared experience.
The Real Reason Your Colleagues Live Rent-Free in Your Head
For many of us, the reason we can’t switch off at night isn’t caffeine, late-night Netflix or the every growing to-do list itself, it’s often the people dynamics at work
Rethinking resilience at the top
Burnout in the boardroom, the leadership team or amongst the staff isn’t just a whisper anymore, it’s a full-blown alarm bell
What Trekking Through Iceland Taught Me
When you're wet, tired, and hungry, your real self shows up. You can’t stop it! It’s like DISC in 4D and on speed.
Out of office
No, I Haven’t Been Hacked - I’m Actually Putting on my Out-of-Office.
Is your top performer your biggest risk? The Behaviour Blind Spot”
If you’re not measuring behaviour, you’re only managing half the performance.
Your Values Are Not Your Culture: Behaviour Is
Your Company's TRUE Culture - it’s in the Meetings, the Emails and the Eye Rolls - behaviours drive culture.
How Far Have You Come?
Reflecting on our journey helps us recognise how far we’ve come. Taking time to appreciate our progress fuels motivation and reminds us of our potential.
Self-Love is not Selfish
True self-love is not about neglecting others; it is about nurturing ourselves so that we can show up as the best version of ourselves for those around us.
What I learnt over the holidays: Gen Alpha
The unsettling behaviours our youngest generation is experiencing and the influence of our own actions on them.
How Different Personalities Behave at a Work Christmas Gathering.
From the overly enthusiastic to the quietly observing, personalities shine in unique ways during these events.
Power of a hug
Don’t underestimate the Power of a Hug: How Simple Gestures Impact Our Wellbeing and Work Culture
Connect Like a Pro
Connect like a pro during conference and awards season: The power of human connection
From Fired to Fearless
Let’s strip back the jargon and look at real-life examples and how resilience becomes your own lived experience.
Ripple Effect
What triggers you and how do you manage your behaviour so it doesn't affect others around you?
First Impressions
Have you ever wanted to have a re-do on a first impression? Here's a little story of a first impression I made...
Living out of flow
Without a whole “Woah is me post” a couple of things that have impacted me both personally and professionally.
EYE EYE - I wasn’t expecting THAT!
Okay peeps, seatbelt on! This blog is going to take you for a drive into the wild world of skin issues, and the star of the show is none other than basal cell carcinoma (BCC), skin cancer.
Declutter and Unsubscribe
How do you use your time when a planned day is postponed?
It Starts With YOU
Have you ever stopped and thought about what is might be like to be on the receiving end of you?
Apprentice vs Dragons Den: The Clothes We Wear
Do you think a dress code matters? Is it outdated in the business world?
Planning For A Longer Life...
How optimism can improve and achieve a longer life span and recognising negative personalities in your life.
When life takes a dump in your inbox!
Do you know your own personality style and those things in life that cause pressure, which may cause stress factors or exhaustion?
How Can One Organisation C**k Up a House Move?
I need to share this journey and give some insight why QoB has been so quiet this year.
I can’t see my way through all the noise, office, home or hybrid? Stay or go?
First can I ask - who is making all the noise?
Treat Others As You Wish To Be Treated
I believe, we should “treat others, how they wish to be treated” if you want to get the best from them, especially in the business world.
What A Year!
May 2021 we decided to put our house on the market...
H.Y.B.R.I.D
We’re getting to the end of the year, let’s talk resilience and how to set your team up to be the best they can be.
Letters on Motherhood
I would like to out it out there for the of us who never became natural birth mothers this Mother's Day
B.R.E.A.S.T
It’s October so let’s talk BREAST. Build Resilient Engaged And Strong Teams...
Connection Between Boundaries & Duty of Care
How can you support those with Rigid and Non-existent boundaries?
Why I Don't Set New Year Resolutions
I know many people do, but I also know many people who don’t. I’m in the second camp and here’s why...
Don't be a T.W.a.T
How do we encourage people back to the office in the right way? Also, are there benefits of both WFH and the office?
get Into The Groove
Now that lockdown is lifting and offices are opening, is it fair to force people back to the workplace?
Work Place or Work Space
How do you prefer to work? In the office, at home, in a café? Is your preference down to your personality type?
"A year on..."
If you had told me that a year later I would still be working remotely, delivering courses and keynotes via video. I’m not sure how my mental health would have been affected by this thought.
Top 5 tips, I would give my 16 year old self
Other than Kajagoogoo wanting their wig back……here’s my top 5. 2021 - the year I turn 50, so as I reflect on my journey to this milestone, I want to look back at what I have learnt.
NOMOPHOBIA...Do you have it?
It was time to do some research and the results were surprising...
"Congratulations, you’re in the Finals"
These were the words I heard in 2018 for the Finals of the first-ever Ms. Great Britain pageant running in 2019.
I'm officially old...REALLY?
Reflecting on my last year - where I have come to a huge change in my life...
Recruitment - doing things differently
Bringing other interested parties into the recruitment process can help validate your choices. Read how...
Why do I use the sunflower as a symbol?
To me, I love the Summer Season and the sunflower shouts summer loudly. But in a business sense how does it translate?
Even the most motivated need motivating
How I needed motivating to get going again during lockdown...
Eat the ugly Frog First
So where do you start? Are you overwhelmed with your work load. Here's where to start...
Five Lessons I've learnt about why I got FIRED!
5 lessons that helped me grow as a person and a professional...
Going it alone
How do you know when it is the right time to start your own business or to go freelance? Is there ever a right time and what do you need to know before you do?
How do you know when a relationship has turned from equal to controlling? The 7 steps guide
Sounds like a strange question, because surely we do things in life to please others - so why would you question a relationship if you found yourself in this situation?
Be proud of your achievements
Overcoming imposter syndrome and allowing myself to be proud of my career choice and achievements.
