Professional Development means new beginnings. New beginnings are a challenge if you are not sufficiently resourced. It is impossible to go from nought to 60 mph at any great speed if you do not have enough fuel in your tank. It is easy to become depleted at this dark time of the year when, after […]
A coach and horses seems to be a good metaphor for the coaching process. Once both coach and horses have found the right direction then their progress is practically unstoppable. When the expertise of the coach driver is aligned with the wisdom of the horses themselves, then they can drive right on through just about […]
Coach Bristol: I set up my career coach bristol enterprise in a rebellious way. I felt I had been told that independent coaching was not a sustainable way to earn a living. I felt I had been kindly advised, for my own good, to consider being a career coach in this city as some kind of […]
A coach tracker is one description that has been used of me in my professional practise. It was not used in the sense of the means by which one tracks ones transport, but, as a verb to describe the way in which I work with my clients. Accountability is a huge part of the coaching process […]
Ok, so I am not Coach Carter and I do not plan any kind of ‘lock down’ for my coachees if they do not attend to their studies. There is however a metaphor in this tale of discipline that draws my attention. Any coaching provider who say that they will only work within their niche is […]
I am often asked the difference between a coach and a counsellor when at times the coaching process can be equally intense. Principally, a counsellor works with The Past whilst a coach works with ‘the now’ and Your Future. A counsellor will help you to dig deep in the archeology of your life in order to […]
Without a career link in the external world it is impossible to find work for ourselves. Without career links to our internal world it is impossible to find a real and sustainable career path. It is the sweet-spot we are seeking. We need to find that place wherein what we love doing is what the world […]
As a coach I would rarely use career test. I don’t use these tests because I think they can blind me to the individual sitting before me. I don’t use career tests because I believe them to be over simplistic and prone to making assumptions. I don’t use career tests because often the career challenge […]
As a coach i do not give career advice. As a coach i help you to generate your own solutions to the career challenges you face. I could sit and tell you how I have generated my own satisfying career pathway. This would however seem a little smug and it would not enable each individual […]
Career. Are you engaging with the word career as a noun or a verb? The work I do as a coach enables professionals to identify, name and claim a clear career pathway for themselves. What many clients feel they have been doing when they arrive before me, is ‘careering about’ in their professional world. Or even […]