Matthew Davies
Thorny Questions
This week has been a very busy but incredibly rewarding one, flying to London on Tuesday morning to run a session on how leaders can...
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Matthew Davies
- May 17
- 4 min
Take My Advice, I'm Not Using It
Much of the work I do is as an executive or team coach and when I embody those roles, one of the fundamental tenets is that the client or...
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Matthew Davies
- May 5
- 4 min
Things are Better when they're Worse
I came across a short video recently in the reels in Facebook, of a guest on the Joe Rogan podcast, talking about a concept called the...
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Matthew Davies
- Apr 20
- 3 min
Spring Clean
I had a lovely couple of weeks with Harper on her Easter Holidays and a few little family breaks, giving a chance to get away from work,...
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Matthew Davies
- Apr 13
- 4 min
Captain's Class
Last weekend I was invited along to coach at a day-long training camp for the East Kilbride Pirates Women's American Football team. The...
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Matthew Davies
- Mar 31
- 3 min
All My Tomorrows
This week I had a long train journey down to Welwyn Garden City and back, to run a session with the NHS. I absolutely love train travel...
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Matthew Davies
- Mar 23
- 4 min
Poseidon
Another week, another set of leadership challenges discussed and considered, but the more leaders I work with and the more sectors and...
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Matthew Davies
- Mar 17
- 4 min
Tell Me Who You Are
This week I've been delivering the first week-long module of a course for a bank, which takes technical experts (software engineers and...
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Matthew Davies
- Mar 8
- 5 min
Community
When I set up my business back in 2021, I knew exactly the types of work I wanted to do; coaching, leadership development and speaking...
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Matthew Davies
- Mar 5
- 4 min
Treat Them Like They're Leaving
On Saturday morning I took my daughter swimming at Portobello pool, right on the promenade in the coastal suburb of Edinburgh. It's a...
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Matthew Davies
- Feb 25
- 5 min
Why Won't They Lead?
It's been a busy week or two, hence me writing this blog on a Saturday, rather than my usual midweek slot, but it's been the good kind of...
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Matthew Davies
- Feb 17
- 4 min
Bedside Manner
This week I was lucky enough to have not one but two trips to the dentist! Like many people, the advent of Covid meant that when the...
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Matthew Davies
- Feb 10
- 4 min
Snakes in the Carpet
Last week's post was a bit of a milestone moment for this blog, taking me over 10,000 individual views! It's very much appreciated and I...
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Matthew Davies
- Feb 2
- 5 min
When Things Aren't Going Well
A big part of life is dealing with others. In business we talk about stakeholders - your peers, your team, your boss and their peers,...
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Matthew Davies
- Jan 20
- 5 min
It's All I Know
It's been over a month since my last blog post, with a lovely family holiday over Christmas, visiting friends in Connecticut. Proper...
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Matthew Davies
- Dec 9, 2022
- 4 min
Christmas Party Season
Since we're now well into the part of the year where work Christmas parties are at full swing, I thought I'd veer from my normal style of...
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Matthew Davies
- Dec 1, 2022
- 5 min
Reinvention
"You can pack your bags, and start skipping town Hang up your hat when the show shuts down But when the world says you ain't quite,...
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Matthew Davies
- Nov 24, 2022
- 5 min
The Generation Game
Yesterday I had a really enjoyable meeting with a potential new team coaching client. At the beginning of any coaching intervention...
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Matthew Davies
- Nov 17, 2022
- 4 min
Just Ask
Yesterday I returned home after a trip to Gloucester to work with a new client in delivering a workshop I've designed on advanced...
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Matthew Davies
- Nov 9, 2022
- 4 min
Who Made Who
Two weekends ago, I flew to Milan to coach the GB Lions Mens Contact American Football team, in a European Championship qualifier against...
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