Did anyone mention that we as individuals get to choose our own professional identity definition? Did anyone explain that to you whilst you were choosing your ‘options’ at senior school? Nope, nor me! “Professional identity is defined as one’s professional self-concept based on attributes, beliefs, values, motives, and experiences” (Ibarra, 1999; Schein, 1978). I didn’t know […]
When i entered the frustrating fifteen years of my career I had no idea of the benefits. The years filled with what I felt were failures. The years where I quit roles that didn’t quite fit, keeping moving. The years where I felt my confidence being corroded in the corporate world as I sought over […]
We all deserve to do nourishing work. This work nourishes me as much as it nourishes my clients. Together, we ‘still’ time in order to ensure it is all lining right up and that my client is really listening to themselves and what their past is telling them. Autonomy, mastery and purpose hold so much […]
My love of empowering people began in my early twenties when I became a Team Leader for the Prince’s Trust. I witnessed, over and over, the profound impact that ‘opportunity’, presented compassionately to individuals, could have on lives. The challenges we confronted together enabled them see themselves from a totally new perspective. From this place […]
Facing Ethical Conflict in Business Having taken myself right out of my comfort zone in a business sense last week I have learned stuff. It often takes us humans being out of our depths to really register where what is important. When we are doing something unfamiliar, something new, something ‘out of character’, this is […]
The best way I have found of restoring my confidence in my professional ability is the get right out and do the work. It is easy to procrastinate when we are fearful of a blank canvas. What if we begin in the wrong place or if we make a bad mark or if we look […]
When you’re tired, remember to rest. It Sounds so simple as to be almost imbecilic, however it’s flippin easy to forget, ignore or believe we are immune to this fundamental truth. Many demands are made of us in a day. Work, home, play. Many distractions pull our attentions off and away into our heads, diverted […]
It can be painful when we have prepared for an interview and not got the job. We are bound to take it personally if a career development plan doesn’t work out immediately. Our ego will certainly suffer if we gather all our reserves to do a presentation and yet don’t get the credit for doing […]
There’s nothing quite like making a mess of something to motivate us into taking action. I may have mentioned that I ‘failed’ at something yesterday… And as my husband has rightly pointed out, I am “not used to being told ‘no’” and I’m not too comfortable with it either! But, the reality is, we will […]
What have I learned today? That in order to feel satisfaction, you need to take risks. That if your dreams stay in your head, remaining unrealised, that if you do not challenge that fear that stops you, then you will never, ever know what could have been. A professional life of few regrets – that’s […]