Self-Awareness

Seventeen Years, Four Reports, One Very Consistent Woman

Seventeen Years, Four Reports, One Very Consistent Woman

I have sat the same behavioural assessment four times over seventeen years. My natural style barely moved. What did change was how hard I was working to be someone else at work.

The 13 Counterfeits of Trust

The 13 Counterfeits of Trust

Every one of Covey's 13 trust behaviours has a forgery. Not an opposite — a forgery, which is far more dangerous, because an opposite is easy to spot. Here's what your best behaviour turns into when you're under load, and why you're the last person who'll notice.

The Richmond Way | DISC styles explained through Ted Lasso

The Richmond Way | DISC styles explained through Ted Lasso

Four behavioural styles, explained through a football club that shouldn't work and does. Roy, Keeley, Ted and Nate, and what each one costs a team when the pressure comes on.

Always Remember Your T&T; The Joke that got taken seriously

Always Remember Your T&T; The Joke that got taken seriously

It was an off the cuff comment in a classroom, and it should have stayed there. We named the recovery: tits and teeth. Straighten up, smile, carry on. It got a laugh, then it got used again the following week, then it stopped being a joke and started being a standard. Ten years ago I wrote it up as a leadership capability. This is the correction, including what seventeen years of my own assessment data says it has cost.