Work & Leadership
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How to stop being the bottleneck for your team
Many of us have suffered the frustrations of our work proposals getting stuck in the inbox of our bosses. We’ve likely spent hours crafting a work proposal with an extremely tight deadline, only to find this missed by 4 days because our head of unit…
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What it’s like to work in Government
I’ve been working in the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) in the UK Civil Service for the last four years. I have been based in Whitehall, at 1 Victoria Street, close to the Houses of Parliament. It’s been a fascinating journey since…
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Why people aren’t listening to your advice
Do you find it frustrating when people don’t listen to you when you give them advise? It can be exasperating when you do your best to help someone else only for them to either blindly ignore it, or worse, get upset with you. Why is…
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Change your relationship with learning new skills
As the old life-script goes, we are born, we go to school, we work, we retire and we die. The suggestion is that we spend the early part of our life learning, until we hit the working age where we are ‘doing’ until we retire.…
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I don’t do enough to acknowledge my achievements. Do you?
Today is the last day in my current role before moving to a new, exciting job on Monday. And yet, I’ve spent very little time celebrating everything I’ve achieved in my current role, nor taken much time to celebrate finding gainful new employment.
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How to survive a dysfunctional and toxic workplace
You’ve joined your new team, excited to make a fresh start and prove yourself. Unfortunately you weren’t aware of what awaited you when you started. Weird and awkward communication styles in the office, rumours of team members not getting along and a boss who you…
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Your biggest productivity hack? Give yourself a break
If you’re in the UK, you’ve probably just come back into work a bit bleary-eyed after a long weekend with the bank holiday. It’s a nice novelty, considering as a country we have one of the lowest amount of public holidays in the world. We…
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Four uncomfortable truths about starting your career
Many of us have a very difficult time making sense of our careers and the wider job market. Often this starts with applying to hundreds of jobs, getting a handful of interviews to finally landing that role, which quickly turns out to be a dead-end.…
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Why Change Management projects fail
If you’ve been in an medium to large scale organisation you will have likely already come across the next grand plan for revolutionising your workplace via the brand new ‘transformation’ or ‘evolution’ programme. So why do they fail?
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Unfulfilled by your early career? Ask yourself four questions
I’ve spoken to many friends and contacts about starting a career in the modern world. Often it is filled with angst and disappointment. If you are currently feeling unfulfilled in your early career, here are some questions to ask yourself
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How to get ahead of your peers? Read!
Have you been looking for the next course, Forbes article or nugget of info to improve yourself and get that extra 5 percent out of yourself at your job? You’re probably not the only one, and learning and development is being valued now more than…
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What Makes a Good Public Speaker? My top tips
Public speaking is regularly highlighted as a key skill in the modern workplace. However, many people naturally find the whole prospect scary: what if you embarrass yourself in front of everyone including your boss in the front row!?
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Remote management during COVID: what are the main principles?
Shifting to remote working has been a real change in the way a lot of us work. For me as a manager, it made me worry about whether I was managing effectively – was I meant to be doing something totally different?
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Three tips on how to influence seniors
Have you wanted to press ahead on a certain project or direction? In the modern workplace, you often don’t get very far unless you get agreement from your seniors.