Rebecca Hartnell, Career Coach, Bristol

To Give & to Receive

The title might sound ‘sacred’ but for the purposes of this blog the sibject matter lies much more in the realms of the profane. When we give, be it gifts on a birthday, or time to a colleague or assistance to a stranger, we generally receive in return. That grin of gratitude, or the sigh […]

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Rebecca Hartnell, Career Coach, Bristol

What if…..

How might it be …..? What might it look like if,,,…? What if …….. We paused? If we stopped for a minute or two to reflect internally? What if we disconnected from the musts and the ‘shoulds’ and from the external demands What if we took a few moments to shed everything & to connect […]

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Rebecca Hartnell, Career Coach, Bristol

You Have the Permission……

Often coaching work involves a ‘permission giving’ role. Usually clients know, deep down, exactly what they wish to do. Once we have excavated to discover what you want and need, then, I can enable you to enable yourself to do that thing….. So today I give you the permission to do just what you need […]

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Rebecca Hartnell, Career Coach, Bristol

Maternity Returning: How to Get the Career You Deserve.

You may feel conflicting and powerful feelings regarding going back to work after having your baby. And according The NCT our culture seems to be failing to ease the transition for us too: ” It’s hard to understand how we’ve created a culture where women are somehow made to feel ‘greedy’ for wanting both a […]

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Rebecca Hartnell, Career Coach, Bristol

Being of Service

I’ve been pondering the benefits of truly being ‘of service’.  I am not a coach and clinical supervisor for the money. I have chosen these two roles because I have a passion for helping people close the gap between the beliefs they hold about what they are allowed to do, and the brilliance they are […]

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Rebecca Hartnell, Career Coach, Bristol

Hold The Line

Sustainable change requires a rigorous attitude. What I am noticing is that whilst it is can be easy to put a boundary in place in a professional environment, and sustain it, It is sometimes easier to abandon such a boundary in our personal lives. Because we care, because we want to believe the best of […]

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Rebecca Hartnell, Career Coach, Bristol

What’s Stopping You?

Assertiveness: What I am noticing is that whilst career coaching clients can often assert themselves in their professional roles, they may not be able to do this so easily in their personal worlds. This too affects your career development. In a place of work, or a profession, there are structures and protocols and base lines and ethical […]

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Rebecca Hartnell, Career Coach, Bristol

The Big Career Question:

The biggest question I encounter in work as a career career coach is ‘can I really make my living doing what I love?’. And the short answer is ‘Yes’.           This answer is also the long answer too because it is dependent on a sequence of decisions and structured steps. I […]

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Rebecca Hartnell, Career Coach, Bristol

Practise: 

Practise is a discipline and takes commitment & time & effort. It is true when someone says the words  “Only you can do what you do in the way the way that you do it. You are unique” The work comes in practising believing it! It is practise well worth putting for it is only […]

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Rebecca Hartnell, Career Coach, Bristol

Maternity Returning: Choices

          If there were a bewildering number of choices pre-motherhood, post birth it can feel like it’s getting ridiculous. Where decisions were previously based primarily around yourself and perhaps you’re significant other; what town, job, house, what clothes, now you’ve been pitched into a bewildering array of decisions regarding the safest […]

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