Long before I ran the world’s largest survey into changing attitudes towards later life I was already aware of the divide between ‘Old money’ and the rest of us. A good friend worked as a land agent advising ‘old money’ on running their estates and through him I gleaned an insight into a totally different […]
Eighteen months after his coaching one of my early clients contacted me to say that some of his old anxieties and concerns were returning. We met and reviewed his plans and the answer was clear – most of the priority goal he had set for himself were either achieved or about to be! We went […]
October is a busy time of year in our social calendar – the long summer is over and people we know are ‘back at work’ (whatever that might be!) so it’s a good time to catch up. What I’m really enjoying is the number and sheer diversity of these gatherings. It might be post Covid […]
One organisation I’m working with is planning a major shake up to ‘improve efficiency’. Nothing new, in fact they have been slow to embrace the digital world so a ‘catch up’ is long overdue. Inevitably there are cost considerations and they are currently looking for the best way to structure their business units. Listening to […]
Having recently tested positive for Covid I’m starting of a period of self imposed ‘time out’. I only tested positive yesterday, and so far I am one of the lucky ones with only minor cold like symptoms which have not stopped me working. As a result I am catching up with the outstanding email traffic […]
The world around us is changing at an unprecedented rate and it is clear that many organisations we encounter are really struggling to adapt to what, for today at least, are the new ‘norms’ I written previously about my experience dealing with Financial Services organisation that manage to embrace the whole spectrum from ‘struggling badly’ […]
At EML we like to put our research into practice – and when we know things work we share them. Maintaining your relationships is important for all sorts of reasons, particularly during a pandemic. Here are a few simple ideas that seem to work well. Remembering a birthday goes down well. In the digital era […]