It’s getting close: In November I will publish my book, Poverty to Possibility: Snapshots from a Yorkshire Boyhood. It’s the story of my dad’s childhood growing up in a poor Yorkshire, England coal-mining community during the depression-era 1930s and World War II.
The origins of this writing journey started 50 years ago in Rawmarsh, Yorkshire, England. It was 1970, and I had just turned nine. We were visiting my second cousin Ernest Payne’s house. Fidgety and a bit bored by grown-up conversation, I wandered outside to explore Ernest’s small, cobbled back yard. I spotted a pile of coal there. Growing…
It’s getting close: In a matter of days I will publish my first book, Poverty to Possibility: Snapshots from a Yorkshire Boyhood. It’s the story of my dad’s childhood growing up in a poor Yorkshire, England coal-mining community during the depression-era 1930s and World War II. It’s a story about breaking through barriers, friendship, mentoring, and resilience.
The origins of my writing journey started 50 years ago in Rawmarsh, Yorkshire, England. It was 1970, and I had just turned nine. We were visiting my dad’s cousin, Ernest. …
Mentoring can be a powerful behavior that advances your organization’s mission, values, culture, commitment to corporate social responsibility, and competitiveness. It prepares diverse, high-potential talent for new levels of leadership and impact. How? By enabling knowledge transfer and a learning culture, expanding networks, and growing cross-culturally fluent leaders. In short, it can make you a talent magnet.
While typically centering on career navigation in the workplace or field, mentoring helps in the shift from being knowledge-based to learning organizations. It opens up new possibilities for idea exchange and insight.
You may ask, “How are we going to add mentoring in…
Image choices communicate a lot about real organizational values and behaviors
Each day at work, we see or create countless PowerPoint decks, sales presentations, social media posts, articles, learning content, ads, and videos that convey organizational culture and values. If an image “tells 1000 words,” each conveys meaning about who is valued or not valued, about whether we each “fit” or belong, whether we are seen as a “leader” or not.
Too often, we choose images to help tell our stories that reinforce the status quo and which have had the effect of excluding far too many for too long…
I will be forever thankful to Julia Child: I once got a job I loved thanks to her.
No, I never met her and she didn’t put in a good word for me to a prospective employer. But she inspired me. I loved her PBS show The French Chef when I was small — and benefited from her inspiration back then when my mother made Julia’s Boeuf bourgignon recipe or my dad made chocolaty Pot de Crème for our dessert.
What’s not to admire about someone who describes what makes a chicken a roaster or not with the flair of…
Diane Bailey-Boulet
President of Scale Excellence, a coaching and consulting company focused on growing resourceful and resilient leaders, organizations, and communities.
