Career Coaching: Is Work Insane? Or, are you actually behaving in an insane way about work? Are You consistently doing the same thing over and over again and still expecting a different outcome? Are you sick and tired of being sick and tired? Do you want to stop now? Or, do you want more of that particular […]
Career Coaching: What Do You Want? So, ALL the employment information this year is telling the employee that they have power beyond that which they have ever had before … . “High demand in labour against a low supply of available workers has prompted many employers to raise pay and offer more work flexibility to boost […]
Career Coaching: Your Elevated Power — Glassdoor said that “employees will have elevated power in talks this year because of the tight labour market.” “With low levels of unemployment, high numbers of job vacancies and record numbers of workers quitting in ‘The Great Resignation,’ it will be the most creative employers who are best able to hire […]
Career Coaching: Happiness — The figures state that a third of you employed people are unhappy at work here in the UK? “The world’s ‘largest study of work happiness’ has found only 27 percent of UK workers say they are happy at work most of the time,” With more than 170,000 UK responses this research by […]
Career Coaching: Slow the Fxxk Down!!!! Last year in Crete myself, my beloved, and the boy, I got a boat across the island of Gavdos. We got a VERY fast boat across a VERY bumpy bit of the Agean sea to Gavdos. I had driven the trip. I wanted to do something exciting! And, I absolutely […]
Career Coaching: Having a Rocky Time at Work? Are you? Seems like most people are! I’ve got friends, Connections, acquaintances, recommendations popping in through every channel right now! It’s quite bewildering, although it is also a privilege. And where are they at when they get to their first session? Quite frankly, most of them fear they have gone […]
Career Coaching: Change — Are You Ready for change – or do you just think you are? You see there’s a step to take BEFORE change that’s not that comfortable: Frederick Perls, in his “Paradoxical Theory of Change” States: “ Change occurs when one becomes what he is, not when he tries to become what he is not. “ […]
Career Coaching: Nothing Has Changed — So, welcome to 2022. And, didn’t we imagine everything would be different by now? Take yourself back to the first lockdown, March 2019 – did you too believe this was “just going to be for a couple of months’ — As you ran around, all community-minded, putting in seriously hard graft with […]
Career Coaching: Fearful? So, during the pandemic, you have discovered you don’t like your job. So, what’s keeping you there? It will be one of two things: Firstly you may not know what’s next? Secondly, you are fearful of change? Possibly it is a combination of both! That leaves you stuck — […]
Career Coaching: Reflections ‘Tis deep darkest winter. Solstice. And now the light will begin to return. If we take the time to reflect now, we can choose our way forward with acuity. . Ask yourself these questions: What went well? What didn’t work so well? What would you do differently next time? And what do […]