No Way to Black Friday Sale

It’s that time of year when shops start advertising the imminence of Black Friday – the day when it is alleged you can secure all manner of bargains and leap ahead like a contented festive elf with your Christmas shopping. Whether you actually really find any bargains, as opposed to reductions on prices that had […]

Are Coaching and Development just New Age Garbage?

I was in my late 20s when I first heard about coaching. My mum mentioned that a friend of hers was training to be a life coach.  I thought it sounded like a load of New Age garbage. The following decade, during my time at PA Consulting, I remember thinking that the folk in learning and […]