Career coaching: Childcare. With this pandemic, I believe we have the potential for huge changes to our work and our society. Nobody at all has valued childcare, for decades. Therefore, we neither value the childcarers nor the children themselves. This means we have been dismissing the whole next generation. We are also dismissing huge swathes […]
Career Coaching: Teamwork. People look at me as a Sole Trader and assume I’m on my own. In reality, I have a whole team surrounding me. I have two questions for you: Firstly, what can you delegate? This might be paid roles or it might be reciprocal. You might find it really easy to promote another […]
Career Coaching: Contracting. When a business of project fails It’s rarely down to the quality of the skill or the service. It is usually the lack of business-like behaviour that has the provider on the floor. You may be really skilled, gifted and talented but that counts for very little if your business protocols and […]
Career coaching: Value. We do not know how to value ourselves professionally. As I was staring this enterprise I was given this piece of advice. “Set your prices higher than you imagine you could ever charge – you will grow into them” Of course, I ignored this guidance. I felt I was ‘too newly qualified’, ‘too […]
Leadership Coaching: Boundaries. Being really clear in business, work and life regarding where the line sits is really beneficial in lots of ways. It shows others exactly where they stand and interesting they seem to really quite like it. We did Shadow-work exercise. Working in partners one had the ability to draw their partner near or send […]
Career Coaching: “Lucky”. Have you come across those people who just seem to land on their feet? Those that go for promotion and always get it? Those who consistently earn well without seeming to put much energy in? Those who even if they get made redundant, have a new job within days? Those who appear […]
Career Coaching: inner critic.What has your inner critic sabotaged for you recently? I’ve been all too aware of mine in recent weeks.After four decades I have finally located the place where my inner critic is most active and powerful. This is a great piece of information to have for all of us because then you […]
Career Coaching: Permission. One of the roles of a career coach is that of granting permission. Permission to what? Permission to do this career-thing in the way YOU want. Often we arrive in our adulthood and we are absolutely full of ‘shoulds & oughts’. You may have been absolutely playing by ‘the rules’ for years. […]
Career Coach: Imposter syndrome is SO common. Much more common than you would ever imagine. When you see how some people ‘present’ themselves, you would assume they have never doubted themselves and their ability to do their job, ever. I would counteract that by saying the everyone has their doubts on some days. Comparing […]
Career coach: Concentration. Beware of diluting your unique self. Sure, when there’s a seed of an idea, for a career path, or a business or a project, do your market research……. and then….. shut the doors for a while. Disconnect from contaminants for a little time in order that your idea can grow in its unique […]