Firstly, prepare. I cannot emphasise this aspect more. If you are an anxious-avoidant personality then MAKE yourself face the oncoming challenge. Be it an interview, a exam counting towards your CPD or putting a business start-up proposal to the bank, prepare! In this digital age it is easy to discover the answers that you will […]
Firstly there is reward in a job well done. The people who we did the work on behalf of will usually acknowledge this too. Colleagues can be invaluable in helping us recognise our achievements. There is nothing better than peer-recognition. These people know just what it took to make the project work. Secondly there is […]
As a career coach I have seen two ways of choosing a career. One is more successful than the other. The first is to do as you’re told, it is to choose the options you were advised to do at school. To choose the degree your family felt would be good for you. It is […]
It is very British to be unable to accept a compliment with any kind of grace. It is also very British to be unable to value our own skills for ourselves. We are in a bizarre catch 22 situation of not being able to hear how good we are because we don’t allow ourselves to […]
This is a message of encouragement for all of you who are about (or indeed have begun already), to embark on a new project. Hold strong! The universe is configured the wrong way round when it comes to courage….. We are only given the courage to do a new thing, once we have done it! […]
As humans and as professionals, we all have our own unique combinations of things that count as ‘hell’. We also all have our own combinations of coping strategies that see us through these disaster zones. My own particular version of hell right now is a 4 year old just gone to Big School, a husband […]