A guest post by Grace Marshall “Writing doesn’t always look like writing. It looks like pondering, staring out of windows, ruminating, running down rabbit holes, reading, researching, talking, gesturing, laughing, crying, wandering and wondering, getting lost and being found.” The words “I’m struggling” are familiar to every author. So it’s…

A guest post by Frederique Murphy I started writing my book during the first lockdown, and as a keynote speaker, the pandemic meant that all my events had either been postponed or cancelled, and I missed being in Flow. You know when you are ‘in the zone’? That state of…

An article by Alison Jones for Training Journal You’ve seen them, of course, the coaches and consultants who smugly announce they’ve ‘published a book’. But what they wave under your nose looks suspiciously like a bound copy of their training notes. The fact is it’s easier than ever to publish…

by Rob Kerr Not so long ago, if you were made redundant your response was to look for a similar job. If you were feeling adventurous you might look for a comparable role in a different industry or sector. Today, though, many of those businesses are in the same position…

What does writing look like? Monty Python famously imagined it as a spectator sport, ‘local boy’ Thomas Hardy making a start on The Return of the Native in front of ‘a very good-natured Bank Holiday crowd… he is writing fluently, easily, with flowing strokes of the pen as he comes…

by Marianne Page How you show up as a leader then depends on how you answer this question: ‘Is management power or is it responsibility?’ I watched a lovely conversation the other day between Captain Tom Moore, and the former England football captain, David Beckham. Naturally they talked mostly about…

This article documents the entire process of writing my first business book, The HERO Transformation Playbook, along with all of the hard lessons, pain, frustration and creativity, I’ve had along the way. …

A guest post from Andy Salkeld, author of Life is a Four-Letter Word (out 14 May). Medium really is a defining word of my life right now. It’s not good. It’s not bad. It’s just in the middle. I have a feeling many people will be feeling like this a…

I was chatting with Jude Jennison, author of Leading Through Uncertainty: Emotional Resilience and Human Connection in a Performance-driven World, at a virtual campfire recently following my virtual writing retreat, when she casually mentioned: ‘You know, having the book saved my business these last few weeks.’ Of course I asked…