Category Archives: Personal & Professional Effectiveness

Are you sitting comfortably?

Posted on January 29, 2012 by kikimaurey

At last September’s conference of the ‘The Women’s Business Forum’ Nancy Staisey, MD of Life Sciences at IBM shared her fascinating take on “It’s Time… to Realise Your Potential: the importance of support”. Nancy explained how she often gets asked … Continue reading →

Posted in Critical Thinking Skills, Personal & Professional Effectiveness, Positive thinking, Supporting Women at Work, Women on Boards | Tagged 3-legged stool, core values, diversity, IBM, networks, positive experience, self-belief, social networks, successful career, support | Leave a comment

Is your mind playing tricks?

Posted on December 26, 2011 by kikimaurey

Some months ago my ears pricked up when listening to BBC Radio 4’s Midweek. Matt Croucher, veteran of the war in Afghanistan, was being interviewed as someone who had lain down on a land mine to protect his mates. Matt … Continue reading →

Posted in Critical Thinking Skills, Personal & Professional Effectiveness, Positive thinking | Tagged challenges, emotional responses, goals, happiness, life's work, Michael Neill, objective truth, reality tunnels, sense of proportion | Leave a comment

Is your cup overflowing… yet?

Posted on November 30, 2011 by kikimaurey

This is the 2nd in a series of reflections on the amazing experience that was ‘The Women’s Business Forum’ I attended in Harrogate at the end of September. The overarching theme was “It’s Time… to Make a Difference” and featured … Continue reading →

Posted in Critical Thinking Skills, Personal & Professional Effectiveness, Supporting Women at Work, Women on Boards | Tagged achievement, behaviours, confidence, diversity, influence, Kirsty Bashforth, leaders, principle, realise your potential, stressful, stretch, teams, values | Leave a comment

Going Blank is an Event Boundary: Wow!

Posted on November 21, 2011 by kikimaurey

I have a lovely loft office and not infrequently I find myself rushing headlong down two flights of stairs ‘on a mission’, only to arrive downstairs and promptly forget what on earth I came down for. I had assumed these … Continue reading →

Posted in Critical Thinking Skills, Personal & Professional Effectiveness, Taking control | Tagged brain tasks, eraser, event boundary, Keynote, metaphorical threshold, public speaking, senior moments | Leave a comment

RIP Steve Jobs

Posted on October 27, 2011 by kikimaurey

Steve Jobs died just as my favourite apple hit the shops, Cox’s. Here’s me, once sniffy of the whole Apple computer phenomenon… sitting in front of my awesomely powerful ‘Big Mac’ with my Little MacAir connected in another room, munching … Continue reading →

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