Career Coaching: Impact — One of the things I adore about coaching is the privilege of seeing the outcomes of this work in the long run. This takes many different forms: It can be a delightful and unexpected email from far-flung foreign lands celebrating a client’s achievement. This work goes far and wide in the […]
Career Coaching: CVs. I’m often asked, “Will you help me update my CV?” Seems logical — As a career coach, I should provide this service, right? However, on the whole, my answer is ‘No’. Why is that? It’s because your CV is merely the tip of the iceberg of WHO you bring to your professional world. […]
Career Coaching: What Do I Do Next? Humans turn up in this coaching space often knowing that they are deeply unhappy doing their work, but they have no idea where to look for their next opportunity. What do I do next? I can turn my hand to anything so what is MY thing? The clients […]
Career Coaching: A Good Question asked of me by a client recently: “What if the process doesn’t work for me?” This is such a great question: Firstly, why would you want to invest a whole heap of cash, time and trust, in a process that isn’t guaranteed? And conversely, it takes two to tango: I […]
Career Coaching: Tell Me I’m Wrong: Agreeing on how to work together as “Coach and Coachee” is really important, and it’s a movable feast – you and I might have done a really intense piece of work together five years ago… And if you return to do some further work, we will inevitably have both changed, […]
Career Coaching: Despair — A client came to me saying these words: I despise the senior leadership team. What do I do? . She was distressed . She had worked with the organisation for well over two decades. . She had risen from a Saturday girl to a really senior position. . A new CEO had […]