It doesn’t matter how bright you are or how very astute your ideas, if you do not share them then they have no value. This is a bold statement, but, hundreds of thousands of words, in an unpublished book, are silent. The best entrepreneurial notion, left trapped inside a brain, will have no impact whatsoever […]
Did anyone mention that we as individuals get to choose our own professional identity definition? Did anyone explain that to you whilst you were choosing your ‘options’ at senior school? Nope, nor me! “Professional identity is defined as one’s professional self-concept based on attributes, beliefs, values, motives, and experiences” (Ibarra, 1999; Schein, 1978). I didn’t know […]
“It takes a village to raise a child” and it takes a whole community to grow a business. After years of bruising and challenging career experiences I harnessed the lot by using my coaching and supervision skills and began to empower others to harness their expletives in service of their career passion. This was juicy! […]
Birthing The Daemon Career Coach: Beltane 2015: One Year On. During an interview last week I was asked “who was actually part of my business?’. The simple answer is of course, that as a sole trader, this business entity is ‘Just Me’. The real answer however has so much more depth and breadth. My first […]
Ethical & Professional Careers I have realised that this is exactly what I do. I enable other people to choose their own ethical careers. Not because I manipulate coachee’s into choosing to be ethical but because ethical decisions are a natural consequence of the journey we embark on together Something profound happens when we […]
Facing Ethical Conflict in Business Having taken myself right out of my comfort zone in a business sense last week I have learned stuff. It often takes us humans being out of our depths to really register where what is important. When we are doing something unfamiliar, something new, something ‘out of character’, this is […]
When you’re tired, remember to rest. It Sounds so simple as to be almost imbecilic, however it’s flippin easy to forget, ignore or believe we are immune to this fundamental truth. Many demands are made of us in a day. Work, home, play. Many distractions pull our attentions off and away into our heads, diverted […]
When things go wrong we have a choice. We can choose to cry or we can choose to laugh. Of course this depends on the severity of the mishap. Nothing life threatening is very funny. But aside from that, most things can be put right or ruptures repaired. I absolutely adore it when I am […]
It doesn’t matter if it’s asking for help from my beloved to take the small boy to school because I have flu. Or if it’s asking for assistance in the editing of some of my research. Why would we not draw on the strengths of those who are more skilled than we are? I have […]
As a coach supervisor, a very large portion of my job is to really understand the culture or context in which my coachee, or my supervisee and their client, live and work. When a client says they feel ‘angry’ about something, it is very unlikely that their ‘angry’ is exactly the same as my ‘angry’. […]