Career Coaching: Change — Are You Ready for change – or do you just think you are? You see there’s a step to take BEFORE change that’s not that comfortable: Frederick Perls, in his “Paradoxical Theory of Change” States: “ Change occurs when one becomes what he is, not when he tries to become what he is not. “ […]
Career Coaching: Nothing Has Changed — So, welcome to 2022. And, didn’t we imagine everything would be different by now? Take yourself back to the first lockdown, March 2019 – did you too believe this was “just going to be for a couple of months’ — As you ran around, all community-minded, putting in seriously hard graft with […]
Career Coaching: Fearful? So, during the pandemic, you have discovered you don’t like your job. So, what’s keeping you there? It will be one of two things: Firstly you may not know what’s next? Secondly, you are fearful of change? Possibly it is a combination of both! That leaves you stuck — […]
Career Coaching: Reflections ‘Tis deep darkest winter. Solstice. And now the light will begin to return. If we take the time to reflect now, we can choose our way forward with acuity. . Ask yourself these questions: What went well? What didn’t work so well? What would you do differently next time? And what do […]
Career Coaching: Are you Exhausted? The McKinsey report “Women in the Workplace 2021” states: “A year and a half into the COVID-19 pandemic, women have made important gains in representation, and especially in senior leadership. But the pandemic continues to take a toll. Women are now significantly more burned out—and increasingly more so than men.” […]
Career Coaching: The Great Resignation? “Almost a quarter of workers are actively planning to change employers in the next few months, a report has claimed, as part of a “great resignation” prompted by a high number of vacancies and burnout caused by the pandemic.” The Guardian dated November 1st. However, a month on, and what’s actually […]