Power is not pie

“Equal rights for others does not mean fewer rights for you. It’s not pie”

Building on strengths through Appreciative Inquiry

“The more you know about what is going wrong in an individual’s life the more it makes you an expert in failure” (O’Connell, 2005)

Learning how to be restorative

I’ve recently begun a training course on restorative practice. My colleagues who have already attended…

‘Planning is guessing’: Aims for 2018

There are loads of posts at the moment where people are sharing their resolutions for 2018. So who am I to dodge the trend?

I’ve been thinking about how I plan for the future for some time. Ever since visiting the careers advisor in…

Leadership: Be the change that you want to see in the world

People used to become managers because of their competence. They would become experts at a task, and then they would be promoted to manage a team based on that skill set. Credibility came from how tasks were performed.

Responsibility and public services

‘Running services from an economy of scale perspective ensures that there is little useful…