Does your company or team speak international business English? 

How an intermediate level of business English can work to your advantage! Here’s something I hear all the time: “I feel confident in business English conversations with people who have my level of English, but I feel nervous when I speak to native English speakers.”  If your clients or target clients speak a kind of […]

Renewal or burn out? The choice is yours.

In his book “The Way We’re Working, Isn’t Working” Tony Schwartz talks about the four zones we spend our time in (see image).  Leaders often aim to stay consistently in the performance zone. But that’s not possible. At some point they slide into the survival zone, characterised by emotions like anger and impatience. And when […]

Why am I working again on a Saturday? I planned for this not to happen. So why is it happening again?

One reason could be your Immunity to Change, a concept based on the work of Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahay. They describe it as having one foot on the gas pedal (your goal) and  one foot on the brake pedal (what gets in the way of the goal). The brake pedal is your immune system ‘protecting’ […]