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The curse of the good girl

Women are trained to be hard working and dependable while behaving in a predictable way: the perfect recipe to be overlooked for career development. How do we change this at the personal and cultural levels? Averil and Kaye discuss men’s so called easy life,...

Parenthood on CV?

Should women (or men) who take a so-called career break to raise a family add this to their CV? Averil provides corporate culture context and trends in modern parenting to illustrate the debate. “The best way to becoming good at emotional literacy!” Radio...

The Right to Disconnect

Does the UK need French-style legislation to give workers the Right To Disconnect? As flexible work is here to stay, how do you create healthy boundaries between work and private life? Averil argues that it is mostly a failure of leadership to engage with...

Negotiation Skills: natural or learnt?

Negotiating is an essential life skill that we are not always explicitly taught. What are the key secrets of good negotiators? Averil Leimon, Leadership Psychologist and Director of White Water Group, discussed it all with Stephen Jardine on BBC Radio Scotland –...

Straight Talking can be for Good News too

Being a straight talker doesn’t mean that you have to be critical or offensive. We avoid not only confrontation but the good stuff too, suspicious of positive comments as just being a softener before the negative! If you take the opportunity to praise others in a...

The Happiness Formula

A bit of science: Happiness = S+C+V. S is your set range: the way you were born. Some of us are born a bit more grumpy, some a bit more cheerful. It maybe counts for 50% of your long term happiness. C is for circumstances, i.e. climate, wealth, health, marital status,...

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