Leadership Skills: Here’s a link to ‘the top ten leadership skills. What intrigues me is that these skills are STILL referred to as ‘soft skills’. It’s like we need hard skills in most work environments these days?! Yep, on a building site, sure, we will need to get deep-down-and-dirty in order to get stuff done. On a […]
Leadership according to Wikipedia is: “Leadership is both a research area and a practical skill encompassing the ability of an individual or organization to “lead” or guide other individuals, teams, or entire organizations.” and yet leadership is way more complex than that. Simultaneously leadership is way more simple than the above definition too. If you […]
Employment Opportunities: In the current career climate, you need to be creating your own career opportunities. In most sectors, the career for life has long gone. Now we manage our portfolio careers. In taking charge of our own careers we need to become adept at all the skills a small business requires. We must manage […]
I have some employment news. The news I have is information you already know. I would like to remind you of this information all the same because it is all too easy to forget. When we enjoy something, we do it often. We become very good at the things that we do often. Because we […]
Employment Exchange: noun: British a former name for employment office has a very different meaning for me today. Employment exchange simply means that I need to work in a time and place where there is the possibility of literally exchanging one job for another. The inference I take from this is that my whole twenties were not […]
Employment Definition: Believe it or not, there are as many definitions of employment as there are employers and employees. The important thing to focus on is, that in professional collaborations, you really understand each other’s definitions of the work involved. My husband has a saying (warning – swear alert): ” Assumption is the mother of all fuck-ups”. […]
This is what Wikipedia say of Employment: Employment is a relationship between two parties, usually based on a contract where work is paid for, where one party, which may be a corporation, for profit, not-for-profit organization, co-operative or other entity is the employer and the other is the employee. I dont know about you, […]
Career Coaching Interventions: There are three principle ingredients to excellent career coaching. There needs to be a series of diverse and engaging career coaching interventions. There needs to be a client who brings openness, honesty and willingness. There needs to be a coach who can intuit just how and when to apply the right interventions to […]
This link to some Career Coaching Assessment Tools can be really useful. It is also important to bear in mind that the information they reveal about you, your learning style or your personality type, are merely preferences. There was perhaps an over-use of of psychometrics in the 80’s and 90’s, and these have left people […]
Career Coaching Confidence. : Here are four creative coaching tools that promote self-esteem. Self esteem is an essential element in defining your new role. You need to have confidence in order to ask for what you want. This ability to ask for what we want may not be familiar to us. It may be alien in […]