Career Coach London: When I provide coaching or supervision remotely, I am often struck by the need both practitioner and client to Set The Scene. Literally, each phone conversation or Skype session will begin with a description of the environment in which each of us sits. As the British begin with the weather as a means […]
Engaging with an authentic career coach will take you through a rigorous and thorough process. As coach and client, we need to explore aspects your past in order to tease out the threads that you wish to replicate for your career future. A good career coach will examine the professional environments you have previously experienced. […]
Sustainability, be it personal or professional, always involves nourishment. Women are not great at meeting their own needs before those of others. Women who juggle professional pressures alongside kids or the needs of elderly parents in their personal worlds, are particularly bad at squashing self care into the mix. Frankly speaking thus leads to burnout. […]
I was taught that ‘I want doesn’t get’ when I was small…. But, I am discovering in adulthood, that this isn’t necessarily true. Ok, we do need a bit of a shift in manners perhaps, add a ‘please’ and who knows what might happen. The essence of both ‘wanting’ and indeed of ‘asking’ are just […]
What professional identity do you seek? Some kids know just what they ‘want to be when they grow up’, even at school. I had a friend who could identify that she wanted to be a vet when she was 13 years old. Three decades on and that woman is indeed a vet and still loving it. Most […]
It strikes me that once you have had a glimpse of brilliance, you can never truly can never go back to where you were before that experience. Whatever follows in your life or work, you will always have that knowledge. Be it having secured that new position, of completing that amazing project or gaining that […]
A ‘day off’ can help us with maintaining momentum in the long run. I can be a real stickler for routine and the rigorousness of ‘practice makes perfect….’ and these two things do indeed provide a good platform for our growth.So too does the occasional day off. As sports people take a day off before […]
What is your professional purpose? What’s the point of your career? I mean that literally – What is the purpose behind the work you engage with day after day, other than the earning of an income. A lot of people I work with a capable of turning their hand to most things. When we are […]
A meeting with my business mentor today had me noticing how essential it is to have mentors, supervisors and fellow coaches to notice my own blind spots. Feeling dulled and unmotivated I wasn’t really sure what I wanted from my meeting with this wise gentleman, but it was in the diary and I showed up […]
Don’t. It’s as simple as that. You can choose not to fear those who have ‘authority’. You can choose to challenge self-appointed experts, if, (and there is a caveat), you feel it is an ethical & morally sound thing to do. The best people who have authority, or who are considered to be experts, have […]