If you are considering starting a mentoring program Here’s some guidance. Whatever your structure, and structure is important, the fundamental purpose of mentoring is to ‘show yourself’. “Come as you are……… “. This is not a cultural norm in the Uk. We have, unbeknownst to us, become all wrapped up in the ‘oughts and shoulds’ of our actions, […]
On reading an excellent piece of research on Tribal Leadership I was reminded of the real value of mentoring. Mentoring was not the subject of the publication. It was the effect that reading this text had on me by reading it in isolation that brought mentoring to mind. Mentoring is a very effective means of breaking […]
Here are some employability test questions from Kent University. Feel free to see how you score: The question I usually forgot to ask in the past was “Do I want to past their test?”. Do I rate this business or organisation and do I want to work for them? What other choices do I have….? One of […]
Here’s an article providing guidance on employability for the self employed. I bring this to the title of employability because more and of us are choosing to employ ourselves. There are plenty of good things that come with self employment, but it has its fair share of hazards too. Attending to these hazards now means the […]
Do you really need employability skills training? Or can you do the excavation work yourself to reveal your own skills and capabilities? My guess is that you are absolutely able to do just that. However, be wary, for we live in a consumer society. When we are encouraged to, and indeed are at home with, […]
Are you more than your employability skills checklist? It always a look at the 8 most important employability skills. Take a look and see if you are more than the sum of these parts…. Heres the employability skills checklist advice from a government site: “Generally speaking, there are eight skills that employers want you to […]
Businesslike sentence is a phrase that can be seen in two different ways. Firstly, it is a string of words that are professional, clear and sincere. What a businesslike sentence used to mean for me was the other meaning; that sentence that infers imprisonment. “Sentenced” (as punishment?) to work in a businesslike manner. I was a […]
The third Monday in January has recently become known as Blue Monday, and not just in Wales: If you too woke to a rather damp and dark January day then ‘blue’ might apply to you too. Yes it’s about money, yes it’s about weather boy it’s probably also about transition. The difficulty with transition is that […]
Here’s what The Guardian is saying about Career Change Statistics. It seems that 1 in 4 of us are considering changing our jobs! That is a high percentage and I see no reason for this figure to have improved. If 25 percent of us are considering changing job or career or sector then something must be […]
When I was 13 I did a career change quiz. They were widely used in the 80s for kids choosing their GCSE options. I think these quizzes were probably limited in their scope. I came out as a ‘good teacher’. This information was probably none too surprising as both my parents were teachers. I was […]