Self-esteem

Questions on confidence at work

Delegates from law (including the Crown Prosecution Service) and finance firms joined a workshop on “Boost Your Confidence at Work - A toolbox for professionals”. They held various roles including: head of department, partner, trainee solicitor, paralegal, legal executive, business development, recruitment and technical writing. Delegates asked lots of questions Read More

2024-01-26T13:35:30+00:00January 26, 2024|Kim's Blog, Relationship Management|

Book review – Why has nobody told me this before? Dr Julie Smith (Mental Health Guidance)

Everyone experiences occasions when their mental health falters.  Whether that is with low mood, motivation, self-doubt, stress, grief, loneliness or navigating change. Many of us are able to get through those tough times but sometimes we need a little extra help. Therapy isn’t needed by or available to everyone. This Read More

2023-09-12T16:20:24+01:00July 25, 2023|Kim's Blog, Management Skills, Relationship Management|

Boosting Your Confidence at Work – A Toolbox for Success (Be more swan)

Earlier in July I was excited to facilitate a new workshop with MBL on confidence. It was really well received by delegates from law and financial services firms well as from legal government departments. This post is intended as an additional learning resource for delegates. Poll results are shown below. Key Read More

2023-07-17T09:04:48+01:00July 17, 2023|Kim's Blog, Management Skills|

What do you do when a male colleague doesn’t like women? (gender bias)

This was a question posed to me recently by a woman at a workshop. Whilst this question is about prejudice towards women (sex and gender bias) it could just as easily have been about age or culture or disability or sexual orientation or any other difference. I am sure you Read More

2023-02-09T15:32:05+00:00February 9, 2023|Kim's Blog, Management Skills, Relationship Management|

Dealing with “difficult” people – Nine strategies for dealing with arrogance

I was surprised that at two recent workshops, delegates indicated that the attitudes and/or behaviours that they least like dealing with was arrogance. More so than anger, aggression and sadness. During another training scenario, I noticed that people acting in a superior way evoked similarly strong negative reactions. So this Read More

2021-06-01T15:39:59+01:00June 1, 2021|Kim's Blog, Management Skills, Relationship Management|
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