Career coaching: What Matters? Ok, so here we are facing a pandemic. Most of us are in lockdown. Who would have thought this would be happening! In fact, from a business point of view, 2020 never had the clarity its title promised. With Brexit looming, no business could even have a 12-month forecast as we have […]
Career coaching: Childcare. With this pandemic, I believe we have the potential for huge changes to our work and our society. Nobody at all has valued childcare, for decades. Therefore, we neither value the childcarers nor the children themselves. This means we have been dismissing the whole next generation. We are also dismissing huge swathes […]
Career Coaching: Patience. It can take a little time to construct a really solid platform upon which to build your career. In a society where we expect everything ‘ Now.’ (if not ‘yesterday’!), it feels counterintuitive to carve out the time to stop and to reflect. In reality, it is important to spend time choosing […]
Career Coaching: Idleness. Are there days when you do not want to show up? Are there days when even the things you are most passionate about in your professional world leave you unmotivated and stale? Want the good news? That is entirely normal and makes you only human. And the second bit of good news? Even by […]
Leadership Coaching: Agility. There once was a leader who was Old Skool. He wore a suit every day. He worked in a young environment and all the others dressed smart-casual. He was very sales oriented. He did listen to his employees but would often take the reverse decision at the last minute. Morale was low in […]
Career Coaching: Teamwork. People look at me as a Sole Trader and assume I’m on my own. In reality, I have a whole team surrounding me. I have two questions for you: Firstly, what can you delegate? This might be paid roles or it might be reciprocal. You might find it really easy to promote another […]
Career Coaching: Strengths. Play to your strengths. Many people show up here saying “I’m here because I am not good at XY&Z”. My response is ‘what ARE you good at? Shall we work with that instead?’. We are so good at trying to be everything to everyone that we even work on the bits we […]
Career Coaching: Celebration. Celebrating success? Have you ever noticed that we don’t do it generally? We are a product of Protestant work ethic programming. We carry messages of “arrogance” or “pride before a fall”. When we fail to celebrate our successes, then we start the next cycle of learning undernourished and tired. Celebrating a win […]
Career Coaching: Get A Mentor. Go on, be brave and find somebody you admire. If it’s terrifying to approach them then you respect them enough for them to be useful to you. Ask. If you get a “No” refuse to take it personally and move on. Most successful people love to share what they know […]
Career Coaching: Contracting. When a business of project fails It’s rarely down to the quality of the skill or the service. It is usually the lack of business-like behaviour that has the provider on the floor. You may be really skilled, gifted and talented but that counts for very little if your business protocols and […]