by michelleloch | Feb 28, 2022 | Articles, Conversations
N.B. This is the third part of a series on having powerful conversations, where we discuss the element of curiosity. If you haven’t read them already, use these links to read part one on Validation & Part 2 on Permission. How annoying are those people who...
by michelleloch | Jan 23, 2022 | Conversations, Leadership, Podcasts
Welcome to this episode of the Naked, Nurtured, Nudged podcast where I’m going to talk you through my thoughts on making the move from living with a survival mindset to one of substance. In our first episode, I talked about how recent the new science of what it...
by michelleloch | Sep 16, 2021 | Articles, Conversations, Leadership
As a leader you spend 80 per cent of your time in conversation. Many leaders severely underestimate both the power of good quality conversation in getting things done and improving performance… and also how very ordinary we are at it. Here are five myths about...
by michelleloch | Jun 11, 2021 | Articles, Conversations, Leadership
You may have been hearing and reading a lot lately about the Millennial Mindset and the need for leaders to stop avoiding and start embracing it. So who are these Millennial’s? Technically, depending on who you ask, they are a generation born post 1980 (ish), they...
by michelleloch | May 11, 2021 | Articles, Conversations, Team
My husband is a problem-solver, as are many of my friends and colleagues. Humans love to be problem-solvers because when we solve a problem for someone (or think we have), we get a reward in the brain (a hit of dopamine – often referred to as the pleasure hormone),...
by michelleloch | Apr 1, 2021 | Articles, Conversations, Team
Every conversation is an emotional one. We are emotional beings, and can easily be triggered emotionally on a continuum from Fear to Excitement. When we refer to conversations that are not emotional, we are really describing conversations where emotion is effectively...
