Supervision Meaning: I had an email from a colleague from my university days. She sent me a one line email saying ‘what do you mean when you say Clinical Supervision?”. I have been pondering this question because it is such a wide field. Can I reply in a single sentence in return? Probably not, but here […]
Supervision Order: In my supervision blog yesterday I described the nourishment and support to be gained from the supervision session by the practitioner. The true and serious purpose of supervision is however to ‘hold the well-being of the client in mind at all times’. The fitness and ability to practice of the therapist is one […]
Career Coach Uk: Whether I am coaching here in the UK, or overseas, I need to bear in mind that my experience is never the same as anyone else’s. However close together, or far apart we reside. I need to be really wary of making assumptions. This is the purpose of ‘Socratic questioning’. Wikipedia give this […]
Career Coach Jobs: I was told (often actually!), that I ‘could never make my living as a coach’, helping people to find jobs. I am happily proving them wrong, albeit in my own unique way. Coaching is often seen as a parachute or second career. It’s the training people do ‘just in case’ their role or […]
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 […]