That Adult and Community Education is in crisis, is no surprise to anybody. So, how do we go about making it sustainable, providing it with… Read more: Future of Adult & Community Education

It has been way too long… I am embarrassed at how my social media posting has dropped, at the length of time it has taken… Read more: Navigating the Self-Employment Roller Coaster

To nurture our creativity is to provide our minds and ourselves with space, non judgement, growth and potential. Creativity is vital to many of us,… Read more: Creativity

The art of connecting to ourselves can be enhanced by the clothes that we wear. If we are wearing clothes that we don’t feel truly… Read more: Fashion as art as connection…

Winter suddenly feels behind us as March brings unexpected warmth! It feels a time of rejuvenation, of growth amid and in spite of the economic… Read more: March Newsletter

By Susan Cain I only learned I might be an Introvert last year… at 54 I think that it would have been handy to have… Read more: Book Review – Quiet

When any change is created in business, there are ripple effects that make their way from the top down through your business and the business… Read more: Supporting new managers to delegate

Craft with a conscience… Birmingham Playcare Network (BPCN) is a Birmingham based charity located in the Hollymoor Centre, Edgbaston. With skilled staff and enthusiastic volunteers,… Read more: Birmingham Playcare Network

We are over half way through the first quarter of the year and I feel the need to ask… where has it gone! Economic Growth… Read more: February Newsletter

I tend to mention in my posts, fairly frequently, the importance of undertaking a skills audit of your staff and I would like to explain… Read more: Identifying latent skills

For Christmas, my partner gave me Mark Rainsley’s Explore the South West Coast Path – A Guide for Walkers, Backpackers and Trail Runners. Don’t tell… Read more: South West Coastal Path – Stage 1

I commented and shared a post on LinkedIn a couple of weeks ago on how to make employees feel valued. My viewpoint was that from… Read more: Developing Value for Employees

Dash clothing is not a brand I have come across before. A quick google and I’m no wiser apart from wondering if I have bought… Read more: Dash Jeans!

The desire to change our current circumstance is an underlying root cause of discontent in many of us. Some of us want to move, have… Read more: The Transition to Working for Yourself

So, last week I had a very unsatisfactory after work run. I class an unsatisfactory run one in which I feel as bad at the… Read more: ‘Meh’ to ‘Yeh’

It was at the Bakewell Wool Gathering Festival that I first discovered Knitted Knockers. Having walked to raise funds for Breast Cancer Research in the… Read more: Knitted Knockers

Sarah McLellan’s book ‘Make it Human’ is a go to guide for all things work and people! It’s subtitle is ‘A vision for happier, healthier,… Read more: Review – ‘Make it Human’ by Sarah McLellan

My reading of ‘surrounded by Idiots’ raised such interest in me that I was thrilled when a colleague loaned me ‘surrounded by psychopaths’. This was… Read more: Review – ‘Surrounded by Psychopaths’ by Thomas Erikson

I’m on a bit of a development roll at the moment as I prepare for personal and professional challenges ahead. I’ve just finished reading Thomas… Read more: Review – ‘Surrounded by Idiots’ by Thomas Erikson

I’ve recently been thinking about my work future. I’ve been thinking of my career and where I want it to go. I’ve been wondering if… Read more: Making a change…

Why is it, whenever there needs to be a tightening of the budget, learning and development is one of the first departments to be impacted…… Read more: The continual rise and fall in importance of learning and development

I recently reacted to a LinkedIn post that was reminding us we are in control of our working lives, and that we should not feel… Read more: Five year plans

Think of the last change your business went through. Was it successful? Was it truly successful? If so, brilliant! Please put up a blog post… Read more: Transparency in Change

Not a buzzword! Wikipedia defines psychological safety as: ‘… the belief that one will not be punished or humiliated for speaking up with ideas, questions,… Read more: Psychological Safety in the Workplace

As a charity or community organisation, your volunteers can be the lifeblood of your work. Without volunteers, you may struggle to reach all the people… Read more: Engaging with Volunteers

Humans have a need to learn and to help others. This is why we are curious and talk to each other, why most of us… Read more: To Mentor or to Mentee..

…are groups of people who share a concern, a set of problems, or a passion about a topic, and who deepen their knowledge and expertise… Read more: Communities of practice…

Ok, so feeling a little ridiculous right now. It’s 3.32am and I have given up fighting the little voice in my head. I have to… Read more: Speed mentoring…hmmmm…

The imposter syndrome: it can be a fleeting sensation that you only ever experience the once or one that cripples us with nerves at every… Read more: Imposter Syndrome…

We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience. – John Dewey Critical reflection is self-critiquing…gently… Stepping back from and actively looking… Read more: The practice of critical reflection…