New courses to help managers solve their toughest people challenges with coaching skills. Developing coaching skills is one of the most effective ways to build engagement, accountability, and high performance, and make life easier for you!

Tomorrow's front page of @ScotNational. We publish a timeline of a year of Israel's bombardment of Gaza. It's all here in black and white - the war crimes, murdered journalists, flattened hospitals, orphaned children. 7567 words, 42,000 deaths. Don't look away.

It’s been less than a hundred years since women in Britain have had the right to vote. This Manchester banner was unfurled in 1903 - it would be 25 years before the suffragettes’ dream was finally realised. Make sure you use that hard-won right today!

@celinemcs @mariethrive We've a fab panel line up this morning with @celinemcs, Dean Nutt CEO at @YMCALarne, Treasa Rice CEO at @Glow_NI & @mariethrive. Discussing personal journey's to CEO and the common thread as the panel all started as youth workers. #DevelopingLeaders

Great to be @NICVA this morning sharing some tips on talent management and joining in their celebration for leaders and managers who had achieved their ILM qualifications.

Interested in how AI is going to impact coaching in organisations? Join us for an Association for Coaching in-person event on 8th November. More info and book here

Interested in how AI is going to impact coaching in organisations? Join us for an Association for Coaching in-person event on 8th November. More info and book here

Great workshop this morning with the brilliant SureStart Speech and Language Therapist team from the Southern Trust, helping them to use a coaching approach in their work with clients.

'You're so much more than you think you are' ☀️ On #NationalPoetryDay, bestselling poet @donna_ashworth joined us and read her poem, You. ✍️ She also spoke to @emmabarnett about her latest collection, Wild Hope, and the power words can hold. Listen here ⬇️

Lough Neagh is now so dangerously polluted that its lifeboat crews cannot enter the water unless it is a life and death situation. The coxswain of one lifeboat says the position into which government has allowed NI's great lake to sink is “horrendous”. https://t.co/hw0sguukct

Last week we were out & about with @LambFilms hearing about the impact our Accelerator & Mentoring programme is having on @CFNI funded organisations. Thanks to @Dementia_NI @SwellFermanagh @lodge_new (Reach Out NI) & their mentors @Gordeno @redsocksorg @mariethrive Stay tuned!

My strongest memory of COVID: I was sat in a respirator. They are horrible to wear. It made my nose stream and I'd gone deaf in one ear from pressure on my temperomandibular joint from the mask straps. I was tired. So, utterly, dog tired. I'd just reviewed a man, in his 50s

Thank you @ImagineBelfast for the Noam Chomsky interview, and now catching up on the @GeorgeMonbiot interview. So great to hear alternatives to the old tired local narratives.

I don’t usually post personal news but Clinicians have told us to pull every lever. Our daughter has with #dipg Brain cancer. There is no cure and typically 9m life expectancy. If anyone knows of trials then please get in contact! #braincancer #childrenscancer @CR_UK

Great to be back at Ulster University, first time on the new campus. Even better to be facilitating a 1 day coaching workshop as part of a Health Sciences masters programme.

We are looking for students to join @AdvanceHE panels/ webinars on ChatGPT. If you think your students could make insightful contributions please DM me & I’ll share form & info. #lthechat

Attention all Physiotherapists!!

Anybody own this lonely Claud Butler Cambridge? It’s been outside here all week. Was unlocked but I put lock on between its rope lock and that stand. I’ll bring it inside tonight if unclaimed for secure bike storage (Belfast City). Anyway Belfast Twitter do your thing pls share!

Only one place left on my 6 week Women who Thrive mini bootcamp, using the Positive Intelligence app. Find out more here: https://t.co/Kz1MZH8RAC

Word of the day is a reminder of ‘sparple’ (14th century): to deflect attention from one thing by making a big deal of something else entirely.