Career Coaching: Wrong: Have you thought that you might be in the wrong role, sector, or business? If so, you are not alone – Plenty of friends, colleagues, and clients seem to have been having very similar thoughts. Someone emailed me this morning, full of fury at what her boss had chosen to action in […]
Career coaching: Authentically, You. Corvid-19 is bringing authenticity with it. I hope we can never go back to the incongruous nature of pretending to ‘be’ what our role is. Working from home while juggling the kids, managing our emotional processes, and working digitally mean that the real you will have been seeping our all over the […]
Career Coaching: Mistakes. Mistakes are valuable, REALLY valuable. Mistakes are rich with learning. We can only access this learning if we choose not to beat ourselves up. If we get stuck in the self-punishment loop, there is no way we can summons the energy to debrief and find the gift. I have seen plenty of people […]
Career Coaching: Shame: As a coach, as a supervisor, and as a Developer of leaders, I have a big ask of you. If we are going to work together truly, then I need you to be courageous and risking bringing your shame. Bring me your fears, bring me your fxxk ups, bring me your judgments and […]
Career Coaching: Encouragement. One of the things I am noticing strongly in my work with clients is how much people are discounting their achievements. It seems ‘in lockdown’, we miss the mirrors of other people’s gratitude and affirmation of what we have achieved. I think this can be very similar to those of us who are […]
Career Coaching: Nourishment. In the blessed rooms of AA, they say, ‘you cannot give away what you haven’t got.’ A couple of decades ago, I think I took this as an insult. These words triggered my inadequacy – what do you mean I don’t have it? Now, I have a deeper understanding, and I was reminded […]