Listening
When you listen to someone, how much of it do you remember? Give me a percentage?
20%, 50%, 100%?
“When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.”
― Ernest Hemingway
I’ve been on training courses for the Cardiff University recently and we were revising coaching skills.
In the first two years of a romantic … Read more
What kind of coach are you?
So there I was at a training day for facilitators for the National College of Teaching Leadership and I got talking to the woman next to me, as you do. She was a deputy head looking for her first headship and she’d just finished an NLP training.’ What kind of coach are you?’ she asked.… Read more
Truth in Turkey
I actually still feel rested after our late arrival back from Turkey last week in spite of being back to early mornings and children who don’t want to be out of bed in time for school. The 16 loads of washing (OK, I exaggerate; but only slightly) are done and the cases are stored under … Read more
Name and Train your Ego
Lovely Man bought me a mini-ipod thingy for my birthday so I can listen to my personal development stuff on long journeys (needless to say, only when I’m alone as he would roll his eyes and kids would revolt!).
So I’ve been listening to Sonia Choquette and I loved this idea of hers.
I’m guessing … Read more
Accepting What Is
You’re not going to believe this; but I’m at home again with Youngest Son whose arm has healed magnificently, but who came home from school yesterday covered in chicken pox. He’s sitting plonking away at the piano as I write. he’s OK in himself, he’s just covered in little blisters and is highly contagious so … Read more
Stress
I should know better, really I should. I wrote a whole book; Love Being Me, as a result of time off work with stress…but it’s so hard to spot.
There are two types of stress, as my A level psychology group are in the process of finding out (Thanks to SH for doing the … Read more
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