by Antony Tinker | Dec 28, 2019 | AAR, Culture, Employee Engagement, Mentoring/Coaching
During an After Action Review (AAR) with a client recently, the subject of soft skills came up and it’s been bothering me ever since. Why? Because it’s one of the greatest misnomers in business. ‘Soft’ is not the same as ‘easy’ and, in our experience, these skills...
by Antony Tinker | Sep 9, 2019 | Leadership, Mentoring/Coaching, Personal growth
With the new term now very much in full swing, the thoughts and attention of our kids (and some of us!) turn to “what next?” My own kids are wondering what job they may wish to do when they leave university in the next couple of years and my youngest, what course he...
by Antony Tinker | Aug 20, 2019 | Mentoring/Coaching, Personal growth
It’s true that the greatest gift we can give anyone is to be fully present, but how often is it that we manage this, even, or especially, with our nearest and dearest? Being present is definitely an art more than a science, in my experience. Yes, there are things we...
by Antony Tinker | Aug 12, 2019 | Mentoring/Coaching, Performance, Personal growth
I recently heard the analogy of trying to play a lute or guitar with the strings too tight or too loose. Imagine this, what would it sound like? Likelihood is either there would be no sound at all or it would be strained and unpleasant and most certainly not musical...
by Antony Tinker | Aug 5, 2019 | Mentoring/Coaching, Performance, Personal growth
Do you ever get overwhelmed with the amount of things you need to get done in a day or week? I know I do! Always trying to get the balance right between “the urgent” and “the important”. I can get so frustrated at trying to balance everything that somehow, sometimes,...
by Antony Tinker | Jun 10, 2019 | Leadership, Mentoring/Coaching, Personal growth
Recently I have been having a lot of conversations with people about ‘purpose’; their purpose, the organisational purpose and even the purpose for a meeting or project team. I therefore thought a series of very short blogs on finding our purpose...
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