What is it like to be deaf under lockdown? Might our experience as deaf people, strangely, give us some advantages? And how could these advantages benefit everyone looking for ways to handle life under lockdown? Here are five reflections and related tips....
Should we be building hope into HR policies?
April 15, 2019
Here is a question for you:
Should HR policy development start from:
a) legal compliance and risk avoidance
or
b) a values-based ethos?
Difficult, right? I posed this question to a group of post-graduate HR Management students at Leeds Business School recently. This was part...
Summary
This article describes the process and timeline of applying for an Access to Work grant to support a key business trip to Myanmar (Burma) for me as the deaf Director of a thriving and growing social enterprise, Result CIC.
The key points:
I applied 6 weeks before travelling ...
Keep going! 3 tips for feeling calmer in a time of turmoil
February 5, 2018
There is so much change and uncertainty at the moment. This can knock our confidence. How can we protect our well being?...
Betty Harris and June Street, OBE: lifelong health campaigners
November 23, 2016
June - thank you for agreeing to be interviewed. We met at Her Majesty the Queen's garden party to which we were invited as charity volunteers. Betty explained that she was planning to lobby Her Majesty concerning your hospital campaign. Can you tell me a little more about t...
Are you being heard?
August 30, 2016
Well do you care?If you can share your experiences with people who are really listening what difference does it make? Nancy Kline, author of 'Time to think', would say ‘all the difference in the world’.
I recently had two privileged opportunities to be heard by people wh...
In January David Cameron criticised business, universities and the armed forces for their ‘ingrained, institutional and insidious’ attitudes which, he said ‘should shame our nation’.
The PM was talking about racial diversity. And his own criticism was immediately ...
Catch up with yourself
August 13, 2015
Last month I did a daft thing.
But it was also a good thing.
Sometimes you have to try to keep your promises to yourself.
13 years ago my Mum died of cancer. 2 years after I ran the 5K Race for Life. Mum’s death had affected me so much, it almost literally felt like a race...
Do you know the feeling? The request comes through that you have been dreading. And you think 'Uh oh!'. You know – the one which strikes quiet terror into your heart? The one which will find you out? I was on holiday at the time, using the hotel's lobby wi-fi. And there wa...
Capping aspiration?
May 29, 2015
Here are few quotes for you:
'I want to give people the chance to fulfil their potential'. (Priti Patel, new Minister for Employment, 27 May 2015)'I truly believe we can make Britain a place where a good life is in reach for everyone who is willing to work and do the ri...
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