When Best Practices Become Security Risks
"As a Database I want to receive input from x system."I'll never forget seeing that user story in a defense project. A team so committed to following Agile "best practices" that they turned their...
Why Everyone Rushes to Build Wrong Solutions
Everyone wants to work with the latest technology. I see it everywhere in defense consulting. Teams racing toward…
Growing Leaders or Leader – Followers
What makes one leader draw leaders and another followers? Some leaders attract others who want to not only…
The 7 Deadly Sins of Leadership
You may be an expert in your field and personally good at what you do, but if your…
Four Ways of Handling and Leading People
Let’s face it. Sometimes people just plain don’t like each other. So what’s a team leader to do…
7 Steps to be a Better Leader
Leading a team on the face of it looks really easy. In reality it can be extremely challenging.…
Remote Facilitation
In recent years it has become an increasing necessity to enhance flexible and remote working practices. The main initial misconception is that the key to unlocking the benefits of remote working sits with the technology, if you utilise video conferencing along with online collaboration tools then you have a winning formula to a high performing remote workforce.
Accessible Facilitation
have been working on a really valuable and interesting concept all to do with making facilitation techniques and processes more accessible for all attendees when conducting meetings/workshops. This concept originally started after being raised by an organisation at an annual away day that one of the break out sessions was incredibly difficult to follow for someone with a hearing impairment.
How to move on from a job
I battled really hard to move on from my last role! A stable, reasonable pay, good work/life balance and flexible working! Why would I ever want to move.
I work in the capacity as a lead business analyst for one of the top charities in the UK. The people are great, the work is linked to a cause close to my heart and apart from a slight change to my role due to some structural changes in the team I feel pretty secure and content, at first I didn’t feel like I had a strong rationale for looking elsewhere.
How to choose a mentor
You may have heard that working with a mentor can accelerate your growth in your career. A mentor can streamline your learning process and help you stand clear of the pitfalls that most people without a mentor go through. However, trying to find the right mentor can be a challenge.