How are those New Year’s resolutions going? If one of yours was to eat well whilst reducing your carbon footprint, read on: Mildreds This friendly restaurant has four branches across London, in Soho, Kings Cross, Dalston and Camden. The kitchen prepares vegetarian and vegan food inspired by cuisines from all over the world. The food is full of flavour and flair. Roganic Roganic is the newest opening from star chef Simon Rogan. The restaurant…
VWA Search ran a very successful competition on social media, which resulted in a high number of new followers and fans on our different SM platforms. The lucky winner of the meal at Elystan Street was Ben Hubert, the VWA Consulting career coaching went to Charles Frost, the wine selected by James Hanford went to Sally Irving, and ten lucky others received goodie bags with Percy & Reed hair treats and VWA merchandise. Look out…
As April 5th approached, the media was awash with shocking statistics illustrating just how ‘wide’ the gender pay gap in the UK is. Not to be confused with unequal pay, whereby two people are paid differing amounts for the same role, the pay gap refers to the overall difference in pay between men and women. The gap stretches across multiple industries in both the private and public sector including tech, media, construction, insurance and of…
We all have different communication styles. Some of us even “think out loud” in the office. We are also, at times, guilty of inefficient use of email – basically, we waste each other’s time by needlessly emailing each other. How so? The main culprit is the “cc” field. Our instinct is to “cc” our colleagues/ subordinates/ managers, for a multitude of reasons: keeping them informed, showing that we are working hard, insuring against later reproaches…
Like a lot of people stabled in this glorious metropolis, I’m not originally from here. I hail from outside and have slowly become “Londonised”. This accounts for certain alterations to my character, such as a marked frustration with pedestrians who meander all over the pavement. It’s also thrown up the need to readjust whenever I return to my native Sussex, for London attitudes don’t necessarily travel well. A good example of this culture clash occurred…
Following his first Cabinet meeting after having become First Lord of the Treasury, the Duke of Wellington opined that he “gave them their orders and they wanted to stay and discuss them.” Such was the reaction of a man used to being in total command succumbing to the realisation that power in civilian life isn’t wielded nearly as straightforwardly as on the battlefield. Humans often overestimate the impregnability of their position. Whether it’s thinking themselves…
I came across a comment on LinkedIn the other day, which I found quite offensive. It was a comment that marked the writer out as a judgmental, miserly and unsupportive troll, and it served no purpose other than to make someone else feel bad and inept, wrongly and deviously in my opinion. The temptation was to comment on the comment in turn, saying something to put this person in his place, but I stopped myself…
One of my favourite writers once penned a metaphor I’ve always been fond of: a man crawling through the desert dying of thirst sees an oasis. Racing towards it, he sinks to his knees at the water’s edge and begins drinking furiously, only to discover that the oasis is a mirage and he’s drinking sand. Instead of spitting it out he continues to drink regardless of it being neither what he needs nor wants. The…
We are excited to announce a series of breakfast talks for 2018. Victoria will explore the topical gender equality debate, sharing quick tips on how to ‘manage’ performance review and compensation conversations in a confident manner. Please find below our speaking schedule. Let us know if you would like an invitation! 22 MARCH 2018 “Compensation Gap or Confidence Gap – which is it?” – a breakfast talk by Victoria Wall JULY 2018 “Mindfulness: Transcend the…
Having spent almost seven years working for Victoria Wall, I have now fully moved over to the Consulting arm of the business, Victoria Wall Consulting. We are an Executive Coaching and Leadership Development consultancy founded twenty-four years ago and made up of a highly experienced team of Occupational Psychologists and HR Consultants. Our approach is based on rigorous psychological research and is tailored to clients’ needs; we are an entirely distinct business, separated by a…
