Assertiveness: What I am noticing is that whilst career coaching clients can often assert themselves in their professional roles, they may not be able to do this so easily in their personal worlds. This too affects your career development. In a place of work, or a profession, there are structures and protocols and base lines and ethical […]
The biggest question I encounter in work as a career career coach is ‘can I really make my living doing what I love?’. And the short answer is ‘Yes’. This answer is also the long answer too because it is dependent on a sequence of decisions and structured steps. I […]
Practise is a discipline and takes commitment & time & effort. It is true when someone says the words “Only you can do what you do in the way the way that you do it. You are unique” The work comes in practising believing it! It is practise well worth putting for it is only […]
If there were a bewildering number of choices pre-motherhood, post birth it can feel like it’s getting ridiculous. Where decisions were previously based primarily around yourself and perhaps you’re significant other; what town, job, house, what clothes, now you’ve been pitched into a bewildering array of decisions regarding the safest […]
There is always something to be done. If it’s not a the business calling, it’s the four year old, if it’s not the finances spreading themselves over every surface, when I finally sit down on the sofa all I can see is the secondary glazing that needs beginning …. Stop! I honestly believe that it […]
Spending time with fellow coaches is really nourishing for me, both as a coach and as a human. I don’t meet with these colleagues in order to exclusively discuss techniques or my business, but, because we are inevitably as curious about the human condition we inevitably stray into the territory of exploring the intricacies of coaching […]
With a sleep deprived night, & a lack of knowledge of where you’re going, & of the technicalities involved in a website build? Can you make it to that meeting? Yes you can! Feel the fear and do it anyway has a lot to say for it, but, the caveat is that you act upon it! […]
Over and over with clients, I encounter their belief, that they are the only ones who struggle with accepting and assimilating their personality types. Using Eric Berne’s Process Model it is easy to visually self-diagnose your preferred way of being. Finding your place on the axis between introvert and extrovert, active and ‘passive’ (by which […]
All humans have a handful of core values that are entirely central to their existence. Usually we are unaware that these are informing our decisions. They surface in two sets of circumstances. Firstly when there is profound change in our lives, and secondly when they are significantly compromised. When our core values, of where there […]
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 this leads to burnout. […]