Career Coaching: How to make a career change? Here’s a radical idea: in order to make a career change, how about you do a recce of what it is you LIKE doing. . Yes, I know you want to maintain your salary. Yes, I also know you are good at doing what you ‘should’. I’m […]
Career coaching: An Apology The Career advice you probably didn’t get and The Career advice I definitely didn’t get was this “Listen to yourself” I wonder if this resonates with you? Growing up I was taught to listen to my parents and to listen to my teachers, to listen to my ‘careers advisor’ and even […]
Career coaching: Walking my talk – I’ve had a reminder over the past year of exactly how hard I ask my clients to work & the discomfort I expect them to face. The transformation that leads to a career-change or a business-build is not that of the tasks that need to happen on the outside. Before that, […]
Career Coaching: Really Heard. How does it feel for you when you are heard? And, what happens as a result of that witnessing? My experiences show it’s VALUABLE! . Today I had a mundane, small boy-related, ‘I’m excluded’ incident. Doesn’t matter now what it was. But, when I got back from the school run I was […]
Career Coaching: Workaholic. So, how’s your ‘responsible workaholic”? Just asking because mine has been in full flow during the last 18 months…I have taken myself to the wall and beyond several times and now this needs to stop. And, my question was not an insult. The “Responsible Workaholic” is a personality type named in Karlah’s Process […]
Career Coaching: I can’t help you. The bad news is that wherever you are up to in your career, I cannot help you. What I can do is help you to help yourself. . I do not know the best way to dispose of your toxic boss. I do not know how you can go back two […]
Career coaching: Stressed. Are you actually more stressed than you think you are? I realise this sounds like a daft question, but I had a wake-up call that went through to my core today. With the pandemic, decreasing budgets and the drive to deliver increasing in corporate, the pressure has really been on. . Having spent three […]
Career Coaching: 30-year-old Men – There’s something different happening. Far more Younger men are coming to coaching. In the past decade, it’s been the women who showed up here aged 35 saying ‘I don’t know what I do want to do but it sure ain’t this!” The men didn’t show up until a decade later, at best. Following […]
Career Coaching: When Failure Becomes Strength. Have you ever failed? Have you ever fxxked something up so badly, maybe even publicly, that you no longer want to exist, let alone trying it again? Yep! Me too! I think what happens is that we get ‘failure’ all tangled up with shame. Then we get stuck. What we need to […]
Career Coaching: Have You Been Hijacked? Have you spent a lifetime being hijacked into working on visions belonging to others? Are you that can-do individual who gets hauled in to collaborate, problem-solve, design the way forward? Has it ever dawned on you that you could be using all of your skills, capabilities, and experiences in […]