by Catherine Stothart | Dec 17, 2024 | Motivation, Planning
Are you making a New Year’s resolution this year? If so, how can you make it a sticky resolution, something that motivates you, something that you can stick with over the next few months? We’ve all made aspirational resolutions on 31st December in the first flush of...
by Catherine Stothart | Jan 20, 2024 | Motivation, Planning
Happy New Year! I hope 2024 has started well for you. Do you make resolutions and set new goals for the new year? If so, do they motivate and excite you? January in the UK is a great time to pause, to slow down along with the season, and take stock – reflect on the...
by Catherine Stothart | Aug 2, 2022 | Managing your time, Planning
Do you return to work after a holiday with good intentions to work fewer hours, keep your inbox empty, your meetings short and your stress levels low? Maybe you manage this for a few days, then before you know it, you find you have slipped back into old habits. This...
by Catherine Stothart | Apr 16, 2020 | Planning
With the government set to announce another three weeks of #lockdown today – and probably more to come after that – it’s a good time to review how we are doing, both personally and within our work and family lives. Kolb’s learning cycle is a useful model...
by Catherine Stothart | Jul 9, 2019 | Managing your time, Planning, Uncategorized
Japanese management techniques like kaizen and kanban were all the rage years ago when I worked for Ford Motor Company and ICL. The concepts of continuous improvement and just in time delivery are still relevant to most businesses these days. These ideas work on a...
by Catherine Stothart | Jan 21, 2019 | Planning, Resilience and re-energising, Uncategorized
Blue Monday? They say that the third week of January is the most depressing of the year. Not for me this year, as I am off to Sri Lanka on a wildlife-spotting holiday. But if I were not, what could I do to keep my spirits up? This week is a time for thinking about...
