Employment Definition: Believe it or not, there are as many definitions of employment as there are employers and employees. The important thing to focus on is, that in professional collaborations, you really understand each other’s definitions of the work involved. My husband has a saying (warning – swear alert): ” Assumption is the mother of all fuck-ups”. […]
This is what Wikipedia say of Employment: Employment is a relationship between two parties, usually based on a contract where work is paid for, where one party, which may be a corporation, for profit, not-for-profit organization, co-operative or other entity is the employer and the other is the employee. I dont know about you, […]
Career Coaching Interventions: There are three principle ingredients to excellent career coaching. There needs to be a series of diverse and engaging career coaching interventions. There needs to be a client who brings openness, honesty and willingness. There needs to be a coach who can intuit just how and when to apply the right interventions to […]
This link to some Career Coaching Assessment Tools can be really useful. It is also important to bear in mind that the information they reveal about you, your learning style or your personality type, are merely preferences. There was perhaps an over-use of of psychometrics in the 80’s and 90’s, and these have left people […]
Career Coaching Questions: Coaching is all about the curiosity. Coaching is all about the questions. The more questions I ask as a client the better. The more questions you answer as a client, the more clarity we have in the picture we create around your professional needs. Socratic Questioning is a fundamental technique within the career coaching […]
Here’s a link to a plethora of career coaching tools: If you feel you have been floating around in the seas of career-discontent for a while, then these tricks of the trade are an important way of enabling you to navigate your way towards land. As in life however, no intervention alone will ‘fix’ your career quandary. […]
It Is Never Too Late: It really is never to late to be who you might have been.. Since I began working aged 16, as a (very bad!), waitress in a pub in deepest Somerset, I have changed career-context around fifteen times. I am familiar with reinvention. Having moved house 11 times by the age of […]
I like this definition of Unique Selling Proposition Nike If you consider the example of a sportswear manufacturer like Nike, their products do not necessarily display unique features – other manufacturer’s sports shoes, or running shorts, or vests, are made of the same stuff and do the same things. Instead, they have created a unique […]
Unique Selling Proposition Examples: You can really set an example in business by creating an authentic USP. Ever Had that experience with a company who simply don’t do what it says on their tin? Yep! I suspect we have all had times when the delivery was late, or the product was just not up to scratch. […]
What is your Unique Selling Proposition? And how can you find your USP? Entrepreneur defines your Unique Selling Proposition as this: Definition:The factor or consideration presented by a seller as the reason that one product or service is different from and better than that of the competition . Reading this definition, I am mindful that […]