I am conscious, as I sit down to write this, that there are many more things on people’s minds than the issues they usually bring to a business or executive coaching session.

The impact of the war in Ukraine is already being felt in our sector; from supply chain disruption to labour shortages (an architect I work with told me yesterday that 10 Ukrainian workers have left one of his sites, to go home and fight).

Many architects have already pulled out of projects in Russia or are working on Russian-funded projects in the UK, so workstreams are likely to be affected.

I am not qualified to offer any analysis of these issues but as a coach two things strike me as important.

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