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    • About Jen
    • Publications and appearances
  • About the book
    • The book
    • Launch Party Photo Gallery
  • Recent Posts
    • An island in an ocean full of change
    • Herrings and peanuts
    • Beautiful and Terrible Things
    • Taking my own medicine
    • How’s business?
    • I do, we do, you do, review …
    • Two Monsters
    • The Tough Question
    • How to Keep Your People Engaged in Times of Uncertainty
    • A celebration, a pause, and a lesson
  • Resources
    • Rethinking Change – Extra Resources
    • Psalm

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  • Business writing,  Humanising business,  Organisational change

    The Tough Question

    17 May 2019 /

    In the few weeks since the publication of my book, I have been asked two questions in particular over and over again– a fun one, and a tough one. The fun question is about why I wrote the book in the first place; perhaps that’s an article for another day. The tough one is the one I particularly want to tackle now, and the answer – or at least an attempt at one – is in a sense a companion to last week ‘s piece about how to keep people engaged in times of uncertainty. The tough question is, in a nutshell,  “Okay, all this stuff about authentic leadership and…

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    How to Keep Your People Engaged in Times of Uncertainty

    07 May 2019 /

    We had one of those rare family evenings around the dinner table just recently when the bickering stopped and we had a ‘proper’ conversation. My ten year old daughter asked, apparently apropos of nothing, ‘What’s your favourite feeling?’ We covered joy, laughter, cosiness, relief, gratitude … and then my thirteen year old son alighted on ‘Looking forward to something’.  That fluttering sensation in your stomach, the way the air feels like it’s buzzing, the sky a little brighter … the way you can be assailed with this feeling even if you momentarily can’t remember what it is you may be looking forward to … and how it’s such a close…

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