Career Coaching: 30-year-old Men – There’s something different happening. Far more Younger men are coming to coaching. In the past decade, it’s been the women who showed up here aged 35 saying ‘I don’t know what I do want to do but it sure ain’t this!” The men didn’t show up until a decade later, at best. Following […]
Career Coaching: When Failure Becomes Strength. Have you ever failed? Have you ever fxxked something up so badly, maybe even publicly, that you no longer want to exist, let alone trying it again? Yep! Me too! I think what happens is that we get ‘failure’ all tangled up with shame. Then we get stuck. What we need to […]
Career Coaching: Have You Been Hijacked? Have you spent a lifetime being hijacked into working on visions belonging to others? Are you that can-do individual who gets hauled in to collaborate, problem-solve, design the way forward? Has it ever dawned on you that you could be using all of your skills, capabilities, and experiences in […]
Career Coaching: Reimagining Our Future. According to LinkedIn “e-commerce worker” is the top in-demand job right now. Interesting that this was never an option on my careers list – The world has changed in the intervening decades. And, The world has changed dramatically in the last 18 months due to the pandemic. Bring able to purchase goods online […]
Career Coaching: A Client Told Me This … . Whilst I would never use a client’s words on the grounds of confidentiality, in short, what she said was that, mid-way through this coaching process that she was REALLY struggling with work and her world. I thought it might be useful for more than just her to […]
Career Coaching: Do You Feel Seen? It’s been an extraordinary first quarter. There are so many new ethical, innovative, irreverent and, brilliant new enterprises being birthed……….. And, most of the work in getting to this point has been the inner work… ….. and, most of the work in getting to this point has been the inner […]
Career coaching: Envy. How are you with the darker emotions in work and business? It’s taken me a few years to befriend them. There are still days where I judge my reactions and believe I shouldn’t be thinking what I am thinking. I read this quote yesterday and it made me grin: . ‘Our best competitors reveal […]
Career Coaching: Are you doing the work you want to do? In the way, you want to do it? Or, are you caught up in the breakers of someone else’s professional dream? “Internalised Capitalism” can have us running hither and thither…. The beliefs we hold showing up “shoulds” and “oughts” and leading us astray. What happened […]
Career Coaching: Have You Had Your Revelation Yet? Nope, I’ve not suddenly got spun in a fervour of orthodox religion. I’m using the word ‘revelation’ because that’s what’s happening to people. In the business world, so many people a buzzing with new ideas, new enterprises and new collaborations it’s inspiring to witness and partake in. And, these […]
Career Coaching: The Default Diary. this is “Handy business survival tip 2357”, courtesy of Mr Adam Brooks here at The Sales Academy Today I got let down. Today, my fourth client of five didn’t show up. In the past, has the fourth client of five not shown up, I’d have been fuming…. Today, quite frankly, I […]