by Hannah Nightingale | Jun 7, 2021 | Better Meetings, Managing, Tips & Tricks
It was a challenging week of challenging conversations for me. It prompted me to revisit a list I wrote while watching the TED talk given by Celeste Headlee, she posits that we have lost the balance between listening and talking and it certainly helped me today...
by Hannah Nightingale | Jun 1, 2021 | Tips & Tricks
I am easily distracted. I started thinking about writing this on Monday. It is now Friday. Over the last few years, training and now working, as a Gallup Strengths coach, I discovered that my lack of execution is partly due to zero of my dominant strengths falling...
by Hannah Nightingale | May 24, 2021 | Managing
We have all been kids, some of us have kids, some of our kids have kids – bottom line, it is difficult being and also managing a child. After a bit of a family meltdown moment last night, I revisited a book called No Drama Discipline (in summary, Supernanny was...
by Hannah Nightingale | May 18, 2021 | Tips & Tricks
I have been baking bread for a few years now, I love the ritual of it, at home in my kitchen with my family, creating something so delicious and nourishing from only flour, water and salt. It has become second nature to me and part of the rhythm of our house. ...
by Hannah Nightingale | May 10, 2021 | Tips & Tricks
The BBC reported last week that of the top 50 companies in the UK, most are reporting that they are not planning on bringing workers back to the office full time. To state the obvious, Covid has been a massive catalyst for change for many of us, as our homes...
by Hannah Nightingale | May 7, 2021 | Tips & Tricks
Future me is awesome. Future me says medium instead of large. Future Me gets his weekly blog post done on time. Future me is a hero. I am yet to meet Future Me so in the meantime, Present Me needs a plan. Past Me promised his business partner Aoife his weekly blog...
by Hannah Nightingale | Apr 28, 2021 | Tips & Tricks
They weren’t predicting this. Those of our clients who have been able to open are surpassing all expectations. “Never thought we could do numbers like that” said one customer as they bolted past pre Covid trading records with their insides missing....
by Hannah Nightingale | Apr 20, 2021 | Tips & Tricks
There is nothing like a global pandemic to underscore the notion that things don’t always pan out the way you’d hoped. A word that has been thrown around a lot in response is “resilience” – the capacity to recover quickly from difficulty...
by Hannah Nightingale | Apr 12, 2021 | Tips & Tricks
It’s doors open time, well, the ones to the patio anyway! I have been speaking to friends recently about the prospect of meeting up (together, in a bar, with others) and there is a bit of a ‘first day at high school’ feel about it all. No small...
by Hannah Nightingale | Apr 8, 2021 | Managing
We entered the pandemic named Barmetrix and we are emerging as Ruckus. As tempting as it is to say our name change came as a result of intense reflection over the last year, the truth is that the first lockdown announcement and our intended launch date collided. As...
