Wild Love. A striking name for a workshop. The mind itself can run wild trying to work out what it’s about. What is it? It’s a brilliant two-hour workshop I attended a few weeks back, on opening up the heart to connect to oneself and others in the room (for clarity, hugs were the extent […]
At Inspo, our passion is to help people be the best that they can be. We make this our reality by delivering motivational talks, bespoke training and providing 1-1 performance and career coaching. We love to see businesses driven by a similar passion to help people be at their best. Barden is a perfect example […]
Careers: Is ‘big change’ possible? Lucy Kellaway is one of my favourite journalists. Or should I say, ‘was’. See Kellaway’s articles vanished from the Financial Times around 18 months ago. In an online article I stumbled across last week I discovered Kellaway, who was 30 years in journalism, left her post with the FT. Kellaway […]
At Inspo, the following are four unmissable work truths. You may agree or disagree on their importance. That’s fair enough. Either way, they are important to share to let you form your view on them: Work dominates your time: You are going to spend 33% of your wakeful adult life at work. It trumps (possibly […]
Career Progression: Moving from Pain to Gain. I believe it’s a rare journey in life where we get to the end point without some pain along the way. To be honest, I don’t know would I want it any other way. One of my favourite minds on living life well, Victor Frankl, emphasised how suffering […]
Yoga on Saturday in Saint Stephen’s Green was brilliant. The sun beamed a wonderful light and heat on us for the hour. This light was contrast by complete darkness set upon the grass four feet away from my mat by a shadow cast from a towering oak tree in the Green. ‘Where there is light, […]
Inspo’s last blog focussed on the importance of the front and back offices. Both for business and ourselves, and our career. Another key concept that has emerged in more recent times in business is the concept of the ‘mid-office’. The mid-office is responsible for areas such as strategy formation and execution, and product development. The […]
“It’s never too late to be who you might have been.” George Eliot I believe that learning to thrive is learning to explore; both by ourselves and with others. I like to look at thriving through three lenses: the lens of you, the lens of others and the context lens. I believe that we can […]
Aged 12, I set off on my journey. 26km on my bike (a first-time excursion) from the seaside village where we spent our summers to my Grandparents house. After around 10km, I was greeted by a steep 1.5km hill. After 1km of the hill I was off the bike. I walked the next 250 metres. I stopped and stared […]
For me it’s simple – people thrive in their career because they achieve the mix of extrinsic and intrinsic reward that is right for them. Extrinsic reward is easy to define; it’s the monetary value of your compensation (salary, bonus, pension, healthcare etc…). Extrinsic reward is what drove people for generations and continues to drive […]