Career Coaching: Happiness — The figures state that a third of you employed people are unhappy at work here in the UK? “The world’s ‘largest study of work happiness’ has found only 27 percent of UK workers say they are happy at work most of the time,” With more than 170,000 UK responses this research by […]
Career Coaching: Slow the Fxxk Down!!!! Last year in Crete myself, my beloved, and the boy, I got a boat across the island of Gavdos. We got a VERY fast boat across a VERY bumpy bit of the Agean sea to Gavdos. I had driven the trip. I wanted to do something exciting! And, I absolutely […]
Career Coaching: Having a Rocky Time at Work? Are you? Seems like most people are! I’ve got friends, Connections, acquaintances, recommendations popping in through every channel right now! It’s quite bewildering, although it is also a privilege. And where are they at when they get to their first session? Quite frankly, most of them fear they have gone […]
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 […]
Career Coaching: Myth Busting: As a coach who’s been at the coal face of one-to-one coaching for a decade, 2020 brought the revelation of the richness of holding group coaching programmes. Honestly, as a self-confessed introvert, I was skeptical. And, I was shown the potency of six individuals, weaving their magic around each other as they […]