Quotefancy There’s a lot of content out there about how to have difficult conversations. These often focus on tools and techniques to plan and prepare and how to be during the conversation. Whilst these guides can be useful, framing these conversations as being...
What are you watching on television at the moment? What music are you listening to? If you are anything like me you might be listening to music from your past or re-watching favourite films or TV programmes. You might be watching...
Over the past weeks, I have seen so many posts and articles reminding us about the change curve and how it relates to how we experience change. I’ll be honest – I’ve never been a great fan of the curve. Whilst I agree that it is useful to be able to...
It is common knowledge that we humans can find change hard but right now, it feels like everything is changing around us. We are being asked to stay at home, our work is now online and our children are not at school. We can console ourselves that we are lucky that...
The psychologist, Manfred Kets de Vries recounts a Sufi tale in his book. In this story, a man notices a lump under a rug which he tries in vain to flatten before lifting the rug to find a snake. Kets de Vries uses this story as a metaphor for trying to create change...
I love to swim. But, for many people, swimming or being underwater is a frightening experience. Many of us, even the most confident swimmers, will remember the scary feeling of having to go to the deep end of the pool for the first time. Being out of your depth can...
