The Magic of Connection – Fabulous Feedback
Unveiling the Magic: A Celebration of Connection and Impact I’m on a mission to empower individuals like you to thrive in your personal and leadership journey. My work is fuelled…
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Significant Emotional Events are Painful
Unlocking the Power of Inner Leadership: My Experience of a Significant Emotional Event I’m on a mission to empower individuals like you to thrive in your personal and leadership journey….
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Break Free from Busyness: Are You Hiding Behind Your Schedule?
Some time ago, I noticed my life was filled to the brim with ‘stuff.’ My diary was a chaotic jumble of client appointments, CPD, DIY projects, and moments with family…
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Handling anxiety and overwhelm in leadership
Handling anxiety and overwhelm in leadership is one of the most common issues I help my leadership clients with. Anxiety and overwhelm is something that leaders and business owners are…
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The Best Advice I’ve Ever Had
What’s the best advice you’ve ever had? The kind of advice that’s made a lasting difference to your life? The kind that you return to regularly, and helps you through…
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What I’ve learned in the last 12 months
On the 27th October 2019, I’ll be celebrating Ad Florem’s 4th birthday. I can hardly believe it was a whole 4 years ago when I started my business. It’s been…
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Is it time to discover yourself?
Self-discovery The leadership clients I work with are often surprised when I suggest the first step to being a great leader is self-discovery. Aren’t they already themselves? What is there…
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It’s Taken Me A Long Time To Learn It’s OK To Be Me!
It’s taken me a long time to learn it’s OK to be me! Like most leaders, I’d previously spent my time focusing on anything and everything that landed on my…
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Time to Focus on You Using the 4 Pillars of Self-Leadership
What is Self-Leadership? Leaders spend a lot of time focusing on external factors. Processes, people, targets. We’re constantly trying to shape and influence these external factors to bring us closer…
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Do Leaders Need To Look After Their Wellbeing?
A Centre for Mental Health study found that presenteeism from mental ill health alone costs the UK economy £15.1 billion per year, and absenteeism costs £8.4 billion. To combat this,…
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Time to Think – Is It Worth It?
How often do you take the time to just think? I don’t mean a momentary pause before you make a big decision. How often do you take the time to…
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How to Rediscover the Passion for your Leadership Role
As leaders, we’re always busy. Always on the go, juggling goals and priorities on a daily basis. In the early days of your leadership role, the motivation and passion for…
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Habits are the key to great leadership
One of the books I frequently recommend to my executive coaching clients is Stephen Covey’s 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. It’s as relevant now as it was on publication…
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5 Ways to Start Feeling More Confident as a Leader
I’m on a mission to empower individuals like you to thrive in your personal and leadership journey. My work is fuelled by your support, so if you find this blog…
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How to Manage Stress at Work
Stress. It’s a word we hear a lot these days, and for good reason. We live and work in a fast-paced society where we’re constantly connected and constantly contactable. In…
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Want to be a great leader? Try reflecting, recharging, and refocusing
It’s that time of year again where the sun starts to make a more regular appearance. It’s also when we start to spring clean our homes and plant seeds in…
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Why is Self-Awareness Important in Leadership?
Over 20 years ago, my eldest son was born, and I remember my Grandma saying to me “you can’t be a great mum, wife, daughter, friend, neighbour, boss etc; if…
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A Time for Reflection
As 2019 comes to a close, it’s that time where we begin to reflect on the past year and our achievements. In between the many Christmas lunches and parties, that…
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Are you bringing the ‘real you’ to your leadership?
Ad Florem means “to flower”, which reflects my aspiration to help senior leaders grow and flourish in their roles. But an unexpected bonus of having this business has been how…
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A simple reflective practice for busy leaders
With the high pressures of modern leadership, it’s easy to believe there’s no time to reflect on your practice, even though great leaders know it helps them improve. During my…
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