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The objective of SPA is to get to a healthy, happy society with equal opportunities for all. Much to do then! Most requests for information and understanding are currently around the social philosophy of ‘Diversity and Inclusion’ or ‘DEIB’ (etc), where we critique both poles of recent arguments and end up as what we call ‘Radical Moderates’!
We write from a perspective informed by many things including literacy in critical thinking, liberal (enlightenment/objective) and critical (post-modern/subjective) approaches, economics, statistics and religious traditions. We hope you find it helpful. Contact us with any question or need.
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An excellent reminder for coaches, leaders, educators, supervisors. “Deeper principles are often more easily grasped away from the biases and assumptions of one’s own field of application. “Sir John Whitmore, 1996. An excellent reminder for coaches, leaders, educators, supervisors. This is why analogy and metaphor can be so illuminating, and
Psychometrics? Personality types? Yes, we are accredited to deliver several. It’s important you select the right one for the right purpose. And they all come with limitations, which we are happy to discuss. You can use us (or just ask about the appropriate choices) for:– Strengths Deployment Inventory (Relationship Awareness
Those who know me know I’m a ‘Stat’. Sounds boring I know! My UCL Honours degree is in Economics and Statistics. I particularly loved ‘Statistical Inference’ – what you can and can’t conclude from a set of data. It often proves vital in my coaching, enabling clients (decision-makers) to reveal
Is it working for you, and how do you know? Testing, Testing…How’s your Rigour? Is it working for you, and how do you know? Coaching is often about checking and challenging clients’ thoughts and assumptions. Lately we are finding more people are using us for help with: – checking and testing
How much of your potential are you currently using? You may not know exactly, but you may have a sense of it. Elite athletes often report they use around 90% of their potential, but executives in business typically report they only use around 40%. With a background in coaching both
As accredited Supervisors of Consultants and Coaches, and as Coaches of Leaders with decades of experience in the act of helping others to succeed, we serve people who have a dream and aspire to excellence in their careers – organisational leaders, executives, entrepreneurs, solopreneurs, sportspeople, consultants and coaches – anyone
An argument against legalising assisted dying from a societal culture perspective I hear and agonise over the valid experiences of people and families who want to be able to take the option of legalised assisted dying. I sometimes do organisational leadership and culture consultancy, and I think a less well
I’ve been chatting with my EQ emotional intelligence provider, EBW Global – Business Emotional Intelligence Assessments, about Dark Empathy – empathy used as a weapon by leaders or colleagues with Dark Triad characteristics. How do we coach leaders with slight (or more) tendencies? In our conversation I suggested: With Empathy,
Deep and Narrow or Broad and Shallow? Let’s try for broad and deep! – where we can add value. I’m delighted to have passed my written assignment and achieved the “Primary Certificate in Psychodynamic Theory and Practice”. Many thanks to fabulous Course Leader Kate Williams and the Temenos team. As
Forget the rhetoric – How key demographics actually voted and what it means My degree is in statistics and economics (UCL)…I particularly liked Statistical Inference, in other words, what CAN and CAN’T you reliably say (infer) from a set of data. And then The Presentation of Statistical Data matters too – what to show,
The Democrats could have won easily with disciplined policies. To make the US election result about personalities – and demonisation of the candidates or the voters – is to miss the point and learn nothing. If someone with a character record like Trump can win against a candidate with the
How ‘anti-racism’ becomes blanket totalitarianism – and racist. The ‘wrong kind of black people’ are now not safe from left-wing totalitarianism. For those of us who genuinely care about continuing to reduce racism of all kinds, and provide genuine equality of opportunity in the UK as fast as we can,
Our grandparents risked and died for us. Now it is our time to stand as moderates against totalitarianism of both left and right. “We will remember them…” An incredible and poignant piece of writing and delivery in Blackadder Goes Forth (below). My infinite thanks to those, like my grandad and grandma (and
I see a lot of misuse of statistics, some deliberately dishonest, on all sides of arguments. As a Statistics graduate I think this should be a criminal offence, of course! In particular now, we need fair and accurate narratives to avoid encouraging polarisation within society and within organisations’ working populations.
My favourite quote on simplism Steven R. Covey said (and he probably got it from someone else) a brilliant quote, “I would not give a fig for the simplicity on this side of complexity; but I would give my right arm for the simplicity of the other side of complexity”.
