Career Coaching: Impact — One of the things I adore about coaching is the privilege of seeing the outcomes of this work in the long run. This takes many different forms: It can be a delightful and unexpected email from far-flung foreign lands celebrating a client’s achievement. This work goes far and wide in the […]
Career Coaching: CVs. I’m often asked, “Will you help me update my CV?” Seems logical — As a career coach, I should provide this service, right? However, on the whole, my answer is ‘No’. Why is that? It’s because your CV is merely the tip of the iceberg of WHO you bring to your professional world. […]
Career Coaching: What Do I Do Next? Humans turn up in this coaching space often knowing that they are deeply unhappy doing their work, but they have no idea where to look for their next opportunity. What do I do next? I can turn my hand to anything so what is MY thing? The clients […]
Career Coaching: A Good Question asked of me by a client recently: “What if the process doesn’t work for me?” This is such a great question: Firstly, why would you want to invest a whole heap of cash, time and trust, in a process that isn’t guaranteed? And conversely, it takes two to tango: I […]
Career Coaching: Tell Me I’m Wrong: Agreeing on how to work together as “Coach and Coachee” is really important, and it’s a movable feast – you and I might have done a really intense piece of work together five years ago… And if you return to do some further work, we will inevitably have both changed, […]
Career Coaching: Despair — A client came to me saying these words: I despise the senior leadership team. What do I do? . She was distressed . She had worked with the organisation for well over two decades. . She had risen from a Saturday girl to a really senior position. . A new CEO had […]
Career Coaching: Rebellion — I broke my own bloody rules (AGAIN!!!) In April of this year, I carved out a new ‘default diary” to protect my sanity. I closed the doors of the business to new clients: Taking part in a research PhD had shown me that I was seriously burning out trying to launch my […]
Why is Career Coaching Important? — Good question. If, like me, you can turn your hand to just about anything. And yet you don’t feel that you have found YOUR thing… If, like me, you have wandered along your career pathway doing what you ‘should’ and what others have guided you towards doing…. If like me […]
Career Coaching: Rebellion On asking my clients what they most feared about engaging with career coaching, more than one responded with the words. “ My fear was That I would be told what to do!!!!” Nope! That REALLY isn’t gonna happen. And there are a multitude of reasons for this: Firstly, my Mum was a head […]
Career Coaching: Are You “Quiet Quitting”? “Quiet quitting is a term for when workers only do the job that they are being paid to do, without taking on further tasks or responsibilities, and data has highlighted employees are working on average an additional 3.98 hours a week, opening up the discussion of what employers can […]