by Kerri Summers | Dec 4, 2020 | Advent
With so much complexity around work schedules, school hours, childcare and children’s activities, sharing the load of everyday parenting and working by creating your own ‘home team’ can help to abate unpredictability and chaos. The home team could comprise day to day...
by Sharon Charlton-Thomson | Dec 4, 2020 | Advent
So many of us try to do too much in the time that we have. One of the most useful ways to think about time is to ask this simple question – what is it that only I can do? Only I can deliver genuine praise to my colleagues, and only I can do parents evening, but...
by Sharon Charlton-Thomson | Dec 2, 2020 | Listening
Brené Brown has an approachability and wisdom that draws you in and makes the listener feels seen and heard and valued. Her humour helps as does her huge intellect and he attention to language and why it matters. She is the queen of making new meaning out of complex...
by Kerri Summers | Dec 2, 2020 | Thoughts
In a meeting with a client today we were discussing the programme of talks for their Working Parent Network next year and the conversation kept on circling back to boundaries, or rather lack of boundaries, and managing distractions. How exhausting this was because we...
