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A Brilliant Thing CIC

Learning and development org. specialising in conflict naviagtion, team collaboration and partnership development.
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27/10/2026

Safe, supported + inclusive work together.

Human Skills at Work training helps teams develop the coaching and relational skills needed for safe, supportive and inclusive teamwork- even when working under pressure.

A Brilliant Thing CIC is a learning + development organisation, helping people work together to do brilliant things.

25/10/2026

Hey managers, stop masking your emotions.

Being professional doesn’t mean pretending you’re unaffected by everything that happens at work.

You can acknowledge disappointment, uncertainty, frustration or worry without making your emotions someone else’s responsibility.

🔵 Be honest when things are difficult.
🟠 Show that you don’t always have everything figured out.
🟣 Make it safe for other people to be human too.

Handled well, appropriate vulnerability tells your team: we’re allowed to be human here. Sometimes saying “I’m finding this difficult too” creates more trust than pretending everything is fine.

Visit our Micro-Learning page for free resources, including Navigate Conflict: Masterclass for Managers and our Human Skills Mini-Series.

24/10/2026

Happy birthday to the brilliant Tess our sister, development lead at A Brilliant Thing and super duper person through and through. Faye Bertram and I loves ya! 💕

22/10/2026

3 signs your team needs coaching skills to improve teamwork

If you feel like all you do at work is deal with people and solve others problems you're at risk of burnout. Leaders and managers can slip into feeling responsible for everything but the truth is that strong teams don’t need a manager to solve every problem for them.

Teams need the skills and confidence to think, communicate and work things out together.

When this ISNT happening you might notice,

🔵 People wait to be given the answers.
🟠 Feedback feels difficult or gets avoided.
🟣 The same team problems keep coming back.

Coaching skills help create better conversations, encourage ownership and give people the tools to find a way forward together.

Our training course -Human Skills at Work - helps teams to develop the coaching and relational skills that improve communication, adaptability and problem solving to help teams work better together.

Visit our Work With Us page for team training to help your people do safe, supportive and inclusive work together.

20/10/2026

Safe, supported + inclusive work together.
Trauma-Aware Teams training helps teams understand how trauma shows up at work and design safer ways of working.

A Brilliant Thing CIC is a learning + development organisation, helping people work together to do brilliant things.

18/10/2026

Hey managers, stop avoiding difficult conversations.

Avoiding something rarely makes it disappear. It usually gives frustration, assumptions and resentment more time to grow.
Instead, create space to reflect together.

🔵 Ask what happened.
🟠 Listen to different perspectives.
🟣 Explore what needs to change without rushing straight to blame or solutions.

Difficult conversations can strengthen relationships when people feel safe enough to have them.

Visit our Micro-Learning page for free resources, including Navigate Conflict: Masterclass for Managers and our Human Skills Mini-Series.

15/10/2026

3 signs your team needs support to deal with trauma at work

Trauma doesn’t always look like trauma at work.

Trauma is the lasting impact of experiences that overwhelm our ability to cope, and it can affect individuals, teams and whole communities. It can show up in how people respond to pressure, change, relationships and each other. 1 in 3 people in the UK have experienced trauma so its very likely that people in your teams, networks and clients are dealing with its impact. If your work is crisis or frontline focused then you may have also experienced secondary trauma.

If you think your team might need support here are some signs to take notice,

🔵 People seem on edge and worried most of the time.
🟠 Trust feels fragile and conflict escalates quickly.
🟣 Small problems create big reactions.

Being trauma-aware isn’t about diagnosing people or becoming therapists. It’s about understanding what can sit underneath behaviour and creating ways of working that reduce harm and strengthen safety, trust and connection.

We offer Trauma-Aware Teams training to help teams recognise how trauma shows up at work and develop safer, more supportive and inclusive ways of working.

Visit our Work With Us page for team training to help your people do safe, supportive and inclusive work together.

13/10/2026

What does trauma-awareness at work actually mean?

Being trauma-aware doesn’t mean becoming a therapist.
It means recognising that people’s experiences can affect how they respond to pressure, relationships, conflict and change — including at work.

🔵 Recognise that behaviour can be shaped by experiences we know nothing about.
🟠 Look beyond “What’s wrong with this person?” and become curious about what might be happening underneath.
🟣 Design ways of working that reduce unnecessary harm and strengthen trust, safety and connection.

Trauma-awareness helps us create workplaces where people feel safer, more supported and better able to work together.

Visit our Micro-Learning page for free resources, including Navigate Conflict: Masterclass for Managers and our Human Skills Mini-Series.

11/10/2026

Hey managers, stop flexing how busy you are.

When leaders are always rushing, overloaded and available at all hours, it can quietly teach everyone else that this is what commitment looks like.

Show your boundaries instead.

🔵 Say when you don’t have capacity.
🟠 Protect time to think and take your breaks.
🟣 Be clear about what can and can’t get done.

When managers make their own boundaries visible, it makes it easier for everyone else to talk honestly about theirs.

Visit our Micro-Learning page for free resources, including Navigate Conflict: Masterclass for Managers and our Human Skills Mini-Series.

10/10/2026

New strategies, structures and systems look great on paper. But making change happen in real life means working with real people and sometimes that feels tricky.

People are under pressure, navigating uncertainty, managing competing priorities and responding to change in different ways .

So for managers, this means more than delivering a plan or smoothing everything over. It means allowing for the stress to be spoken, building trust, navigating conflict, creating space for different perspectives and helping people work together when things get difficult.

Its leadership of people, and that's where Human Skills come in. Our free micro-learning teaches you how.

https://brilliantthing.co.uk/micro-learning/

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