24 Mar 2015 | All posts, Consulting, Effective communication, Planning
Not all our working relationships are in perfect harmony all the time. Some people (co-workers, stakeholders, clients) insist on playing a different tune or drowning out everyone else. Others just don’t want to play at all. Some resistance is subtle, some is overt....
27 Jan 2015 | All posts, Consulting, Effective communication
Blow out the candles and open the bubbly – I’m celebrating my 15th business birthday. Back in January 2000, I took a deep breath and leapt off the government career ladder to start my own consultancy. The aim was to spend less time managing and more time writing,...
28 Oct 2014 | All posts, Consulting, Effective communication, Planning
On the weekend we held a spy-themed birthday party for our 8-year-old: a day of organised chaos with pin the sunglasses on the spy, water pistol target practice, a backyard laser beam challenge, and secret clues leading to the hidden piñata. Tidying away the ‘Top...
