Once you have opened the door to personal and professional development, it is nigh on impossible to shut it again. If that sentence frightens you then I would, on one level, agree that it should. In reality however, any step into learning more about yourself and your world will only ever enrich your career. It […]
It doesn’t matter if it’s asking for help from my beloved to take the small boy to school because I have flu. Or if it’s asking for assistance in the editing of some of my research. Why would we not draw on the strengths of those who are more skilled than we are? I have […]
The Comfort Zone is the beginning of the change cycle. However the comfort zone is not as comfortable as it actually sounds. You’ve heard the phrase: “Familiarity breeds contempt”? Well this is the area we are in when we choose to make change. We are in a place we know very well. We are in […]
As a coach supervisor, a very large portion of my job is to really understand the culture or context in which my coachee, or my supervisee and their client, live and work. When a client says they feel ‘angry’ about something, it is very unlikely that their ‘angry’ is exactly the same as my ‘angry’. […]
There are broadly two types of people. Those who cannot seem to start and those who refuse to stop. The two personality types, the active and the passive, can drive each other slightly insane when they are in their default setting. This is as true in my marriage as it is in any other partnership […]
Of course one of the major reasons we work is to earn money. Money however is never the whole story. Whether you call it work, employment, a career path or volunteering, they all bring many other benefits that contribute to our wellbeing as humans. Firstly there is a sense of ‘belonging’ and all humans have […]