Change is not difficult, transition is the challenge. The most difficult thing about change is rarely the change itself. The real difficulties lie much deeper in the soil this. The first difficulty is feeling the need for change at all. Usually it is either extreme boredom or discomfort that leads us to even consider change, […]
So, you have a worry…. Now, what to do with it? It took me 26 years to work out what to do with my worries. As an introverted child in a tense household, the last thing I would ever do is tell anyone of my fear.As a contorted teenager, I converted my worries like gems, wrapping […]
What amazes me when working with clients is how very blind they can be regarding owning their skills, capabilities and general brilliances. This is not confined to any particular gender or business sector, payscale or seniority, people are just pretty blind to depth and breadth of talent that they bring to their roles, their own […]
As a coach and as a business woman I can see the benefit, or even the need, to try on different professional identities. What in my late twenties or early thirties had felt like a series of career ‘disasters’, of jobs that did not last, or career pathways that disappointed, have actually been really, really […]
The lovely thing about being a coach is that I genuinely want to help. I want to help even if the work is not in the coaching remit right now…. I will always endeavour to assist a client to find what they really need. This frequently involves accessing my network of providers that have differing […]
Adjusting your professional boundaries is always going to be a work in progress. Sometimes we suddenly realise we are being leeched left, right and centre. I know that for me, when I want to throw my toys out of my pram and run away from all of it, I actually need to reel lots of things in, […]
Put simply I see two personality types in my work; there’s the Active type and the Passive type. Both of these are equal but different in their modus operandi, and both have their uses in the world. Used well and these two types complement each other. Whilst the first type can anticipate difficulties ahead and take […]
In a world where things are measured only in what we can see or indeed spend, it is very difficult to make the space to benefit from pausing. I am not talking here of the rigorousness of a mindfulness technique, whilst I know this is powerful, what I am bringing to the fore is the […]
A fellow coaching colleague and I met today to share our business experiences, for we are not only practitioners, but entrepreneurs both too. What I was noticing today is that despite our scenarios being entirely different, the common ground was that both of us have been engaging in repeating the same behaviour and expecting a […]
Why I do the work I do? I realise there are people in the world who are utterly incurious about other people. I know this because I am married to such an individual. My beloved has absolutely no interest in the motives of anyone. He doesn’t ask ‘why would they do that?’, he doesn’t want […]