Blog
How are we?
Most of us will be experiencing a range of feelings and emotions and that’s OK. We’re experiencing a range of grief and it’s worth acknowledging… The Harvard Business Review have an interesting article on "that discomfort you're feeling is grief". It is interesting...
Christmas Offer – The Story Cookbook: Practical recipes for change
Christmas Offer: The Story Cookbook: practical recipes for change is a wonderful practical resource full of story-based processes. The book has over 80 activities collected from contributors around the world and is one of the...
The Story Conference
We are Homonarrans - story-telling beings. This year the Story Conference focused on work, health and wellbeing stories. I facilitated Ebb & Flow: Creativity and Wellbeing which homed in on personal creativity and wellbeing. Participants took a dive into their...
Creative Conferences
A highlight has been attending the Applied Improvisational Conference at the Alan Alda Center for Communication at Stony Brook University Long Island. I was delighted to see the legendary Alan Alda aka Hawkeye from M*A*S*H interviewed by writer and educator Aretha...
Meeting Overload – finding the Goldilocks effect
Meetings have become a major part of organisational life. Meetings well done can be highly productive and energising. We also know they can be inefficient, unproductive and time wasters. I’m surprised at the number of people who declare they don’t know why they are...
Benefits of reflection in your day
Why reflect, what are the benefits, and why should we value it? One major reason is to counter the affliction of busyness. The busyness badge of honour has become ubiquitous. When people ask others “how they are?” the response is so often ‘busy’ and ‘under the pump’....
Creativity is our greatest and most sustainable resource… are you using yours well?
Dear Mavericks In early 2003, while at a conference, I was introduced to an emerging area of work – a new field of practice to me – in which a number of delegates called themselves coaches. Let me explain the provenance of my coaching. It was the early 2000’s and I...
will a robot take your job?
Dear Mavericks It is interesting to note that when one’s attention turns to something it seems to appear everywhere. I’ve been contemplating work, the future of it, as well as the pleasure and anxiety it seems to bring. Lo and behold there seems to be quite a lot of...
Notes from the World of Conferences
Greetings Mavericks In the past few weeks I’ve attended the Australian Institute of Training and Development conference in Sydney and the Australian Women and Leadership Symposium in Brisbane. While there were different focuses there is also some common ground. For...
Global Influencer Leadership Summit
Hello Mavericks Welcome to Maverick Minds first newsletter for 2017. While the Christmas holiday season may feel like a distant memory we can remind ourselves throughout the demands of the year to slow down, take a breath, recharge and ensure your wellbeing and those...
Merry Christmas and 2016 in review
Hello Mavericks In my last newsletter I wrote about getting the most from conferences. 2016 really was a major conference year for Maverick Minds. It provided the opportunity to attend and present at the Art of Management and Organization conference in Slovenia, the...
Mark Walters, Director, SERCO 2015
What I observed from our time with Cathryn Lloyd/Maverick Minds and also the feedback from the senior management team was the importance of making time to get out of the trenches some creative thinking time and also to connect as a team. The various theoretical...
Ready to shift your thinking and make the next move?
Our unique digital facilitation and coaching cards can help with that.