Helping introverted civil servants lead with quiet strengths. Thinking Alliance: thoughtful coaching, training & facilitation. Also 🌿🏃♀️ 📚🎵. (she/her)
Joined January 2014
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27 Feb 2024
'Introverts are slow thinkers'. Really? I don't think so! linkedin.com/pulse/slowly-ch… via @LinkedIn
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23 Feb 2024
The sound of starlings in this scrub near Crosby beach stopped me in my tracks yesterday. Volume up!
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19 Feb 2024
Fresh pair of eyes
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16 Feb 2024
Spring is definitely in the air. A half term walk brought sunshine, birdsong and clouds of ?Blackthorn blossom - a perfect antidote to long days online!
ALT Clouds of white blossom on a small tree, possibly a Blackthorn.
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19 Sep 2023
What a great day - lots to learn and I loved hearing from senior women about their leadership stories
19 Sep 2023
WOW WOW WOW! What a brilliant day! A huge thank you to our speakers: Sarah Munby @SciTechgovukat @thinking_ally @LucilleThirlby Richard Hillsdon & @ProVoiceCoach @KeelaShackell Lolade Onabolu @Farrah_Storr and to our chair @haig_margaret for bringing the day together #WiL23
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15 Aug 2023
Interested in planting a tree 🌳🏘️ in your street?
Requests made now, get planted over the winter period (Nov23-April24). Subject to utility checks.
@treesforstreets is the national community-led🧑🤝🧑street tree🌳 sponsorship initiative.
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See our locations 👇
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11 Aug 2023
🥳 WE ARE HIRING!🥳
COMMUNITY FRIDGE NETWORK MANAGER
🧡 Manage our #CommunityFridge
🤝🏽 Work in partnership
🛒 Engage local businesses
🌟 COMMUNITY FRIDGE E-BIKE COURIER
🌍 Be part of a pioneering, #ZeroEmissions approach to redistributing surplus food
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9 Aug 2023
Lots of miles in the legs thanks to a week in the Lakes last week. Feeling much restored.
ALT A beck running down a lush green valley
ALT Sunday clouds over fields and fells
ALT Selfie on the way up Skiddaw with the Western Fells behind
ALT Buttermere with low cloud and a row of trees in the distance
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24 Jul 2023
Finding thinking time is only the beginning! Here are some thinking traps that stop you using it wisely, and how to avoid them linkedin.com/pulse/five-thin… via @LinkedIn
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20 Jul 2023
"Most of the time you don't need more information, you need more courage." Ooof.
-@JamesClear
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20 Jul 2023
Really enjoyed being part of this, and fielding lots of great questions. I feel confident we'll see more quietly powerful women emerging as really effective leaders in their own right
20 Jul 2023
What an inspiring morning so far! Thank you Katie Driver
@thinking_ally, Richard Hillsdon and @ProVoiceCoach
for delivering our first set of workshops and for providing useful insights when answering all of our delegates questions #WiL23
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19 Jul 2023
barbie’s wheelchair vs my actual wheelchair: a critical comparison
aka the best twitter thread i will ever post
strap in
#Barbie
ALT a barbie doll with light skin and blonde hair sitting in her barbie wheelchair which is a pink manual wheelchair.
ALT katie, a white woman with blondish hair, sitting in her pink manual wheelchair in the exact same pose as the barbie in the previous photo.
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19 Jul 2023
Looking forward to tomorrow's online @WiLeadership_UK event. I'll be sharing tips for introverts about finding your quiet power and using it as the foundation for leading on your own terms #WiL23
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13 Jul 2023
When you burn people out, you push them out. Stars are the first to leave—they have the most opportunities.
The solution is not to pile on the perks. It’s to pinpoint the root causes of overload and design more manageable jobs.
If you want to keep people, stop exhausting them.
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5 Jul 2023
Quieter, introverted people can be mistakenly billed as aloof or shy, but we’re often the calm centre of things, building collaborations one conversation at a time. We need recognition for our different, yet equally valuable, skills — @thinking_ally link.medium.com/3Of8PqGwbBb
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5 Jul 2023
Check out the latest article in my newsletter: Winning quiet lessons from Wimbledon linkedin.com/pulse/winning-q… via @LinkedIn #introverts
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26 Jun 2023
Good to see this attempt to shift to power skills instead of soft skills, and to see what makes the list. What do you think?
26 Jun 2023
Many commentators talk about the importance of so-called "soft skills" for leadership into the future. @IDEOU has (so appropriately) rebranded them as "power skills". Here's their brilliant list of 12 key power skills:
1) Cultivating joy
2) Meaningful collaboration
3) Small-scale experimentation
4) Grounding in purpose
5) Creating community
6) Frame shifting
7) Leading with empathy
8) Emotional proofreading
9) Making room for more voices
10) Leading with questions
11) Finding balance
12) Agility
ideou.com/blogs/inspiration/…
Thank you @FerraroRoberto for the link & graphic
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23 Jun 2023
And that's a wrap for Y11 at their graduation from @RutlishSchool
Great speeches from staff and students - there's a lot of love in this school setting the lads up for whatever they do next
ALT Banner from the Year 11 Rutlish School Graduation programme
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20 Jun 2023
Shining a spotlight on all quiet, introverted & humble improvers. We see and hear you.
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18 Jun 2023
This map is oddly fascinating
18 Jun 2023
The weather forecast isn't looking great today. Keep an eye out for storms with the useful Lightning Map which uses live data to show storms as they happen.
Concentric circles from each strike show how the sound travels. It's brilliant!
lightningmaps.org/
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