Everyone can benefit from the 50 minute hour. A way to tackle the endless stream of virtual meetings and other handy hints.

How 2020 will be remembered is up to you. I will look to the upside.

Reasons why everyone benefits from mentoring

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Ideas for managing the uncertainty of others in lockdown as we deal with the challenge of change.

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I am sharing some practice ideas following working with some managers who are delivering in a flexible and remote working environment. Here I identify some helpful manager practice and what has been evidenced and how.

Practice sharing about working to support learning and development around remote and flexible learning.

Learn how to hold honest conversations. Deal with conflict when it arises. Some suggestions and a checklist.

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Trust involves building it within oneself as well as a dependency on others.

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Holding great conversations on the telephone takes a few additional skills when you can't see the other person.  Work on your voice and physiology will bring good outcomes.

Tips and ideas on how to turn good conversations into great ones.  Making every conversation count.

I discovered four lessons from those putting mentoring skills into practice with apprentices.

Remote and flexible working - building trust.  Based on a recent project, here's what happened when we looked at ROWE and the types of trust needed.

How social learning for birds teaches us how we should be using it at work.