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Top Tips on How to Coach and not Micro-Manage a Team

by Joanna Denton | Sep 9, 2021 | Blog, Play bigger, Practical tips to be awesome!, Rewire out of fear, Thrive

When you have delegated something to your team member, and they get stuck – how often do you just tell them what to do so they get unstuck? I know that this can be really tempting, especially when you are up against time pressure, or a bit of a recovering...

Space to breathe

by Joanna Denton | Mar 29, 2021 | Blog, Play bigger, Rewire out of fear, Thrive

Over the last two weeks, the biggest thing that I have been working on is space. Space to think. Space to write. Space to get quiet and see what comes up. Space away from the noise in my head about what a great article looks like, or a great speech, or a great...

How to press publish when all I want to do is puke

by Joanna Denton | Nov 5, 2019 | Play bigger, Telling your story

The book is there. Its written, and over the last few weeks I have been finishing it. But in reality, I have been hiding. A very intricate and complex exercise along the lines of “Sure, I am going to tell people I am writing a book. But the reality is that I am...

Coming soon: my first book: A Different Truth

by Joanna Denton | Sep 10, 2019 | Play bigger, Telling your story

I am delighted to announce that very soon my first book, “A different truth” will be published on Amazon. Read on to find out more about the book. *** In a single day at work, how many stories run through your head? Stories about what life is like, what...

The Power of a Choice

by Joanna Denton | Dec 27, 2018 | Play bigger, Telling your story, Thrive

On 8 December 2018, I gave a speech in French to a room full of students at IMT Atlantic, the engineering school in Brest, France. The video will be out soon, but in the meantime, here is an English version of the text. The power of a choice. Choices We...

Apparently horses don’t know what KPIs are

by Joanna Denton | Jul 30, 2018 | Play bigger, Telling your story, Thrive

“You might want to move away and give him some space”, Diane said as the thoroughbred horse started to turn its backside towards me, and pin me to the rail of the coralle. I was somewhere in the Santa Cruz mountains, above San Jose California, sharing a ring with a...