Career Advice: Quitting

How Do You Know When To Quit?

Career advice: Quitting. I don’t know about you, but, for me, knowing when to quit has never been easy. My morning has been full of digital fxxk-ups:  When none of the ‘devices’ will speak to each other. When I cannot open a simple document or print it (especially printing – see Eddie Izzard on that […]

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professionalism in business

Professionalism in Business

Professional Behaviours: Professionalism in business all about is showing up when you said you would. It’s about doing what you said you would do. It’s about being willing to listen and to really hear what is said. Professionalism is the ability to be agile in how you respond the information you are given. There is […]

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Professionalism At Work

Behaving Professionally

Professionalism At Work is all about Showing up! By ‘showing up’ I mean really being present for the task or person at hand. This means the development of the ability to absolutely park your personal life in a healthy way. By healthy I do not mean denying any problems you are facing in life, I […]

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Business Support

Business Support: Gather It!

Towards the end of our work together, when a client had decided that they may indeed extricate themselves from the working culture that has been causing them unhappiness, they suddenly realise that they have chosen to go it alone. With our working relationship drawing to a close, ‘ALONE’ can shout right out! This is the […]

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Job application supporting statement

Using Your CV to Entrap Your Reader

Here’s a little bit of guidance on you job application supporting statement from the Guardian  What goes in this bit? Yourself. What’s it’s purpose? It’s purpose is to entrap the reader into continuing. Your statement needs to be short and punchy and clear and eye catching Like any opening paragraph of an essay, it is often […]

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Career Counselling Course

Your Second Curve

A Career Counselling Course can enable your Second Curve: The ambition being that you start the second phase of your business, CPD or career progression on the back of the energy of the first phase. This might seem counter-intuitive but really when you look at it, it is eminently sensible! “A Career Counselling Course can enable […]

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Career Counselling Bristol

Risky Business in Bristol

What’s differentiates career counselling Bristol, from anywhere else in the world, is the energy and dynamism of this city. What people might not risk starting elsewhere, is begun here. That which people might struggle to sustain in other cities, goes right on developing here in Bristol. Whatever might not flourish in other cites grows on to be […]

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Business Basics

Business Basics

Do you know whatI learned today about business basics? When it comes down to the nitty gritty, any business is an entirely practical endeavour. Yep! You can go on training courses and you can read books and you can strategise as much as you like, but, the bottom line lies in ‘just doing it’. And […]

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Business Coaching Definition

Business Coaching: Refining Agility & Resilience

Business Coaching Definition: Explore Business Coaching with Rebecca There are as many definitions of business coaching as there are business coaches. The important thing is that you and your business need to play a very big part in defining the business coaching relationship too. Gone are the days of top down ‘this is how it is […]

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business coaching job

Business Coaching: Rigorous & Transformative

Business Coaching Job I cannot think of a better job than that of a business coaching job. Why? Because of both the immediacy in the work and because of it’s visible impact. All businesses face challenges. Some challenges you can foresee and attend to in advance. Some challenges feel like a total curveball. In these […]

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