Notion Blog and News

Laura Ashley-Timms and other members of the team at Notion share their insights, thoughts, views and ideas with you about coaching, employee engagement, improving management performance and creating dynamic cultures at work... as well as any great ideas they come across of best practise in the business world.. Enjoy!

Using ‘Accredited Coaching’ To Support A Journey Of Change A Case Study With MPS

Using ‘Accredited Coaching’ To Support A Journey Of Change A Case Study With MPS

Our journey with coaching started about 12 months ago. Change can bring about a lot of anxiety and you need a certain skill set to deal with that; we didn’t necessarily have that skill set. We were still going through quite a few large scale change programmes and because of this we decided that we needed to put some coaches into the organisation.


Delivering First Class Executive Coaching

Delivering First Class Executive Coaching

The Head of Fleet Maintenance at a leading logistics organisation explains how Notion’s executive coaching helped him to expertly navigate the challenges of stepping into the senior management team.

How Your Company Culture May Be Increasing The Chances of Fraud

How Your Company Culture May Be Increasing The Chances of Fraud

Following the arrest of Patisserie Valerie’s Financial Director, revelations about accounting irregularities, missing cash reserves and secret overdrafts have sent shockwaves across the business press and any number of boardrooms alike.  Whilst it’s still too early to speculate about the future trading situation of the company, or the outcome of any criminal investigation, it does raise a bigger question about how organisations end up in such dire straits and how potentially fraudulent behaviour can go unchecked.

CONGRATULATIONS! 2018 Top 50 Coach Award Presented To Laura Ashley-Timms and Notion by CV Magazine

CONGRATULATIONS! 2018 Top 50 Coach Award Presented To Laura Ashley-Timms and Notion by CV Magazine

Congratulations to Laura Ashley-Timms, Coaching Director at Notion on her 2018 Top 50 Coach award. This prestigious honour was presented by Corporate Vision Magazine for her services to the coaching industry. 

Surviving A VUCA World - Is The Focus On Wellbeing Too Little Too Late?

Surviving A VUCA World - Is The Focus On Wellbeing Too Little Too Late?

The World Economic Forum predicts that in the next two years, 5 million jobs will have been lost across 12 developed nations as a result of increased automation and robotisation. But, the International Labour Organisation is less conservative in their estimation; they state that across places like Cambodia, Indonesia, The Philippines, Vietnam and Thailand, 137 million jobs will be lost as a result of the robotisation of the garment industry alone. That equates to an epic 56% of the workforce.
Do Managers Really Know How To Be Agile?

Do Managers Really Know How To Be Agile?

Deloitte’s Global Trends research in 2017 identified that 80% of organisations recognise that they need to develop more agile and diverse leaders and managers.1 Indeed, ‘agile’ remains a much talked about topic well into 2018. Although it is a relatively new term for most, it was actually coined by a group of industry leaders in 2001 as part of their agile manifesto to make software development more responsive to business needs. Now, appropriated by mainstream management, the term has spread into almost every aspect of organisational life. Consequently, most managers have probably heard about it, many will incorporate the phraseology into their everyday language, but do managers really know how to be agile?