Engaging with an authentic career coach will take you through a rigorous and thorough process. As coach and client, we need to explore aspects your past in order to tease out the threads that you wish to replicate for your career future. A good career coach will examine the professional environments you have previously experienced. […]
Sustainability, be it personal or professional, always involves nourishment. Women are not great at meeting their own needs before those of others. Women who juggle professional pressures alongside kids or the needs of elderly parents in their personal worlds, are particularly bad at squashing self care into the mix. Frankly speaking thus leads to burnout. […]
I was taught that ‘I want doesn’t get’ when I was small…. But, I am discovering in adulthood, that this isn’t necessarily true. Ok, we do need a bit of a shift in manners perhaps, add a ‘please’ and who knows what might happen. The essence of both ‘wanting’ and indeed of ‘asking’ are just […]
What professional identity do you seek? Some kids know just what they ‘want to be when they grow up’, even at school. I had a friend who could identify that she wanted to be a vet when she was 13 years old. Three decades on and that woman is indeed a vet and still loving it. Most […]
Are you courageous and authentic enough to really benefit from career coaching work? I am sometimes asked “Do You have to like your clients in order to coach well?”, and, this is a question that I find difficult to answer. Why do i find it difficult to answer? this is because in all the years […]
It strikes me that once you have had a glimpse of brilliance, you can never truly can never go back to where you were before that experience. Whatever follows in your life or work, you will always have that knowledge. Be it having secured that new position, of completing that amazing project or gaining that […]
A ‘day off’ can help us with maintaining momentum in the long run. I can be a real stickler for routine and the rigorousness of ‘practice makes perfect….’ and these two things do indeed provide a good platform for our growth.So too does the occasional day off. As sports people take a day off before […]
Making Reparation can strengthen a business relationship. Whatever your industry sector or role, whatever your actual work involves, most of us need to relate to other humans. Wherever there are human relationships, there is always the possibility of misunderstanding by one or other of the people involved. Misunderstandings easily rupture an existing relationship. When I […]
What is your professional purpose? What’s the point of your career? I mean that literally – What is the purpose behind the work you engage with day after day, other than the earning of an income. A lot of people I work with a capable of turning their hand to most things. When we are […]
Whilst our professional values rarely change, the way in which we apply them, in different cultural contexts, will often need to change. As Heraclitus said: “The only thing that is constant is change” And life sure shows us that all too clearly. The industry sectors we are used to inhabiting need to change in order […]