In your career negotiations it is possible to both commit to your current project with your whole heart, as well as to keep your options open regarding other possibilities. Whilst a job is a kind of marriage in that there is a ‘marrying’ of our individual skills with the needs of the role or organisation, […]
In times of change its important to return to basics. In times of instability it is therefore important to know what those basics are. One thing that is essential in both our business and personal worlds is the clarity that comes from knowing your core values. As humans and as professionals we we made up […]
Yesterday I attended a course on how to write a funding proposal. It’s is not the first time I have attended a course on how to write a funding proposal. I knew it was a box ticking exercise in order to secure organisation’s financing, so I went along, just to play the game, because it […]
Working with people with big brains and with amazing skills is a joy. For the individuals themselves however, having widespread talents can be a real challenge. Firstly, very capable people don’t get a lot of sympathy from those who have had less opportunities. But when you cannot recognise & own yourown professional potential, then it […]
In identifying a really satisfying and purposeful career path, there has to be a little patience. We are taught, and we might actually prefer, to be active and goal orientated. It might serve us to be achievement driven because it is a satisfying and fulfilling way to exist. We get to prove our own potency […]
Some clients come through the door knowing exactly what they want to do, but, they don’t know why. Whilst this is not a huge problem on the face of it, for surely if you see a goal, surely it is only a nature of practical actions that will take you to that achievement? It can […]
Change is not difficult, transition is the challenge. The most difficult thing about change is rarely the change itself. The real difficulties lie much deeper in the soil this. The first difficulty is feeling the need for change at all. Usually it is either extreme boredom or discomfort that leads us to even consider change, […]
So, you have a worry…. Now, what to do with it? It took me 26 years to work out what to do with my worries. As an introverted child in a tense household, the last thing I would ever do is tell anyone of my fear.As a contorted teenager, I converted my worries like gems, wrapping […]
As a coach and as a business woman I can see the benefit, or even the need, to try on different professional identities. What in my late twenties or early thirties had felt like a series of career ‘disasters’, of jobs that did not last, or career pathways that disappointed, have actually been really, really […]
The lovely thing about being a coach is that I genuinely want to help. I want to help even if the work is not in the coaching remit right now…. I will always endeavour to assist a client to find what they really need. This frequently involves accessing my network of providers that have differing […]