People born 20 years ago have grown up in era of constant change. According to Beloit College Mindset list, these people have never licked a postage stamp, have never seen an airplane ticket, have only ever seen folk wheel their suitcases around an airport rather than...
I have a new a new Super Hero; a real life astronaut, Commander Chris Hadfield. During the last few days I have guzzled down his book ‘An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth’ in complete awe of what to me seems like an extraordinary human being. From the age of...
Last night business leaders across Bath and the West Country battled through Storm Imogen to take part in the first Inspire Alumni event for 2016. Insights were shared by Inspire founder and MD of Whynot Coaching Liza Hughes and Joint CEO of Chopsticks Club, HJ...
I have just finished this great book called ‘make it stick’, The Science of Successful Learning by Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger and Mark A. McDaniel. One of the many interesting insights from the book, which very practically offers scientifically proven methods...
Whynot? Is celebrating 10 years this year; so I thought I might share a few of my ‘top tens’ to help you to get the most out of your performance and productivity in 2017. I love the start of the year, that feeling of a new year, new you, new opportunities etc. etc....
I love this time of year, I love everything about the build up to Christmas, from the excitement of little children, to the hushed conversations in office corridors of folk trying to work out what they actually did the night before.. Sound familiar? The incredible...
Did you ever wonder when you became so busy? When was the moment that life speeded up? When I spend time on public transport I’m always intrigued by the folk around me on their mobile phones telling their caller, and the rest of the carriage, very loudly, just how...
The late French Novelist Marcel Proust wrote, “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes” Seeing things through a different lens can often be tricky, but his words are useful when we consider the power of perspective....
These wise words came from the inspirational voice of Eleanor Roosevelt a former first lady of the United States. Her sentiment is spot on and in the coaching world conversations around this quote happen on a daily basis, with folk from all walks of life at all levels...
I’ve got to be honest; it’s taken me a while to feel comfortable and in some cases confident with the many social media platforms that exist now, and I’m certainly no expert. We’re living in a social age and there is an awful lot of blur out there that can easily...
Do you remember your school reports? Can you remember what they said about you? I was recently reacquainted with my reports from secondary school, and whilst I remembered some of what my teachers had written about me, reading them again with the powerful knowledge of...
How often do your mornings start like this, you arrive in work with the best intentions to be productive, but before you know it, it’s lunchtime and you haven’t achieved a thing. If like me you have a preference for structural thinking, you may wonder why this...
Having recently been emerged in the Italian countryside for 4 days at the Global Brain Summit for Emergenetics, never have I been more aware of how important it is that we seek out new ways to cut through all the ‘blur’ that exists in the world today, to fully connect...
I recently watched a documentary with my husband called ‘Man on Wire’ if you have seen this you will know it is about the French tightrope walker Philippe Petit who on August 7th 1974 set about walking on a tight rope suspended 450 meters in the air between the World...
