Professional Development Trends: The professional landscape changes daily. Changes are driven by money and politics and global markets. Driven by eternal influences this landscape is mostly out of our control. Professional Development trends follow these changes in the work landscape and these too are outside our remit of design. The piece of the employment jigsaw […]
A coach and horses seems to be a good metaphor for the coaching process. Once both coach and horses have found the right direction then their progress is practically unstoppable. When the expertise of the coach driver is aligned with the wisdom of the horses themselves, then they can drive right on through just about […]
I am often asked the difference between a coach and a counsellor when at times the coaching process can be equally intense. Principally, a counsellor works with The Past whilst a coach works with ‘the now’ and Your Future. A counsellor will help you to dig deep in the archeology of your life in order to […]
Supervision Bristol: there are a wide range of ‘caring industries’ operating within thus city of ours. Whilst bristol has been known as a city of great wealth and accademia, it is a city of great polarities too: We have high levels of homelessness and addiction. We still have communities struggling with deprivation. We have conflict between […]
I was taught that ‘I want doesn’t get’ when I was small…. But, I am discovering in adulthood, that this isn’t necessarily true. Ok, we do need a bit of a shift in manners perhaps, add a ‘please’ and who knows what might happen. The essence of both ‘wanting’ and indeed of ‘asking’ are just […]
What is your professional purpose? What’s the point of your career? I mean that literally – What is the purpose behind the work you engage with day after day, other than the earning of an income. A lot of people I work with a capable of turning their hand to most things. When we are […]
Whilst our professional values rarely change, the way in which we apply them, in different cultural contexts, will often need to change. As Heraclitus said: “The only thing that is constant is change” And life sure shows us that all too clearly. The industry sectors we are used to inhabiting need to change in order […]
Running a business is the same as organising a good party. Its terrifying to plan. It is easy and joyous to partake in once its in progress. The emotional rollercoaster of the social host, mirror that of an entrepreneurial start-up exactly. When I began to play with the notion of setting up in business I […]
A meeting with my business mentor today had me noticing how essential it is to have mentors, supervisors and fellow coaches to notice my own blind spots. Feeling dulled and unmotivated I wasn’t really sure what I wanted from my meeting with this wise gentleman, but it was in the diary and I showed up […]
I advocate taking a business strategy day every 6 months. For myself this has felt like a luxury given that I am a sole trader, and have a multitude of other roles to juggle in my life. However, in service of walking the talk that I talk, I do it anyway. What is becoming more […]