Leading rides, like any other form of leadership, requires many skills. Strengths coaching highlights the skills we need to develop as well as those we’re already great at.

Taking a step back from a hectic project and considering our options can prevent us from getting carried away with the goal, removing the blinkers and ensuring we consider the impact of what we’re doing from all angles.

Taking a systematic approach and investing time to look at all of the options will be repaid in full further down the line.

I have women clients, senior marketing professionals, some of the best, who are still having to handle sexist behaviour in the workplace…when they just want to get the job done. Instead, their energy is taken up with an added layer of politics, a layer that their male counterparts can – and all too often do – simply ignore.

If ghosting is your default when you no longer have need of a working relationship, then think about enhancing your self-awareness.

That drive and determination that makes my coaching clients want to perform to their best in the workplace matches my son's drive to make his business succeed and to perform at his best on the triathlon stage. 

Planning has a place but don’t stress the plan, just get on with it and have some fun while doing it. Ever come across green tomato chutney as a tactic before?

Puppy-sitting this week has brought to mind the various interventions that coaching gets mixed up with.

If you have loose bricks in your team wall, act now before they become dislodged by powerful behavioural factors.

You don’t have to feel invisible because you don’t have the loudest voice in the room - sometimes the best contributions come from the listeners, the thinkers, the considered ones amongst us.

My messy garden has some great individual plants in it but the whole isn’t quite working for me. What to do…

When you know something isn’t quite right, use coaching to stop and unpick the problem to get you back on the road again in better shape than ever.

Savouring the moment, rather than grabbing hold and not letting go, is what integrity means to me.

Sometimes, taking time out to look at the whole and break it down is all that is needed…along with some positive self-talk.

Riding in neat formation, cyclists are making life easier for motorists. It’s about mutual respect.

Drawing on the six pillars of resilience to get back on the bike.

Clearly, I’m a bit late to the party this Valentine’s but it’s better late than never.

What is the meaning behind Crescendo Coaching and how it can help you to amplify your voice.

Don’t let new year pressures, real or otherwise, stop you from feeling a sense of achievement.

How do you relax and take yourself away from the day to day?