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Catch up on the latest insights from Aslan Coaching founder Lisa Cresswell.
Themes include Resilience, Quiet Leadership, Domestic Violence, Just Culture and Psychological Safety.
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Feed the Hope – Starve the Fear
This week as we all very tentatively and gradually emerge from the ‘lockdown life’, what do you want to expand in your future? Hope,...
May 29, 2020
Are you ‘drink-driving’ through life?
The vast majority of us don’t do it. Most people judge those who do – silently or vocally, culturally and criminally. Yet, 1 in 3 of us...
May 22, 2020
A privilege, not a nuisance
Another important reflection is to decide what kind of leader you don’t want to be. On LinkedIn a few years ago I saw someone in a senior...
May 15, 2020
Why always me?
Do you sometimes feel like the Grand Central Station of all queries and problems? Are you the ‘Encyclopedia of Everything’ for everyone...
May 8, 2020
When cocooning hides procrastination
A common question, even a challenge. I delight in hearing how others are forgiving themselves more now for stopping to smell the roses,...
May 1, 2020
The Upper Hand
Each generation has endured major and catastrophic events that have changed lives and punctuated the decades. Each one is ‘new’ and...
Apr 24, 2020
Healing Hands in a Restricted World
Conversational small talk online or across a street now follows the same agenda; how scary it is for those who are ill, how tragic for...
Apr 17, 2020
Who is in charge?
After his symptoms did not improve he was admitted to hospital. He continued to work. Still his condition did not improve and he was...
Apr 10, 2020
Lost your structure? Regain it here
I’m expecting a lot of burnout over the coming weeks and months. I’m hearing about the difficulties for managers who are stuck at home,...
Apr 3, 2020
Resilient Leadership in a Crisis
My coaching practice has now moved totally online, and the issues presented to me by clients have moved from a wide variety to one common...
Mar 27, 2020
3 steps to calm during chaos
Was there ever a more comforting statement… It reminds us to live in the present moment – not ruminating on the past or fretting about...
Mar 20, 2020
Peace during a Pandemic
13.3.20 I’ll get straight to it: while I mostly coach individuals on building their personal resilience, I also help business owners make...
Mar 13, 2020
Tired of caring?
It happens to people in caring professions because they are exposed to the sharp end of life every day at work. They walk in the shoes...
Feb 28, 2020
The worst ‘leader’ in a crisis
Everyone was working quietly (to reassure the woman and her husband) but fast. There was perfect teamwork; each had their own role in...
Feb 20, 2020
Everything going wrong?
Things that are usually embedded as habits and memories, just fall out of your head. You forget important stuff you have had on your...
Jan 11, 2020
Honouring the urge to hibernate
I came across a beautiful post on Facebook the other week about what are bodies and minds yearn for in the depths of winter. It...
Jan 4, 2020
Battleship vs Lighthouse
There is a story that often does the rounds on the internet, of the battleship out at sea. The lookout reports to the Captain that there...
Dec 20, 2019
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