Leadership coaching: Humility. The best leaders are those who admit that they don’t know what they are doing. Bold statement? Maybe, but as my husband says: “assumption is that mother of all fuck-ups”. Isn’t that just so true! Having spent the first three decades of my life pretending that I knew what I am doing, I […]
Career Coaching: Do What You Love. I get people coming to work work with me, saying things like “I’m not good at XY&Z and I need to work on that”. I think this is an erroneous approach. This is the legacy that our education system has left us with, their remit is to give everyone a […]
Leadership Coaching: Experience. Have you ever noticed that excellent leaders are often quite quiet? Why is that so you think? I suspect that this is because they are secure enough to listen. It’s taken me a few decades to recognise that ‘he who shouts loudest’, might indeed get his own way. However, he who shouts loudest might […]
Career Coaching: Destiny. What do you do when you know you have the ability to do great things, and yet, You are stymied every which way you turn? What if you know you have valuable feedback work but it is never heard? What if you can see the bigger picture and can clearly see what’s […]
Career Coaching: Progression. On the whole, there is little point for most individuals to be having career coaching before they reach their 30s. Why? Because there is probably not yet enough professional history for us to work with in order to define your future. There are of course exceptions to this rule, but they are […]
Leadership Coaching: Always “On”. There are rising concerns regarding our flexible working culture leading to the ‘always on’. This brings the expectation that employees should always be available… this behaviour in turn leading to burnout. If you are a leader then this will not be unfamiliar to you. If you are a good leader you […]