Leadership Development: What is your Purpose? And Why does it matter???? Have you heard that question before? If you have heard it but have no idea what “knowing your purpose” serves, then here’s the information you might need. What does the question mean? When someone asks you about the purpose of your business, what they […]
How are you with Business Coaching Boundaries? Have you ever felt extremely frustrated with other’s demands when, in hindsight, you recognise that you could have asserted your boundaries earlier? There is much talk of ‘responsiveness‘, ‘agility‘ and ‘iteration‘ in leadership right now. These certainly have a place in the engagement of individuals in the development […]
Business Coaching Training: Have you ever found that you have been utterly elegant with a client or customer, all focussed on the relationship-build, amenable and genuinely curious, only to turn right around and snap at your business partner???? Yep? This is the place where ‘familiarity (needs to NOT) breed contempt!!!! Here it the place to begin […]
Business Coaching Bristol: Enabling others to build their businesses is a privilege. During one particularly rewarding session the client came up with this mantra for her enterprise: “Bugger it, Be yourself and Be opinionated.” The more I walk alongside new enterprises the more if become apparent that John Lydgate‘s words “… you can’t please all of […]
Business coaching for sustainability: I have had some realisations regards my drivers for practising as a coach. I recognise now I was allowed to ask how anything worked other than humans when I was small. Now I get handsomely paid to engage in really open and contracted professional curiosity. “I can say what I see, […]
Business coaching Identity: I tried to define my business identity in a void. Does this sound familiar? I wanted to know exactly who I would be coaching and how I would be doing it, before even trying it. This prevented me from practising. This perfectionism prevented me from being of any use to anyone else […]
Business Coaching: Be clear who exactly is in charge of what. My husband and I are both “leaders”. That means that we both think that we are right. We both think that we are right all of the time. This has caused acute conflict for a decade. Whilst I hesitate to admit this … My […]
Career Change: Biased: We all carry around a head full of unconscious biases. That’s part of the deal of being human. Until they are gently raised to consciousness, they will continue to drive us in our decision-making. It is important that we are consciously choosing the lens through which we view our world. Social talent lists these […]
Career Change: Failure. So you decided on your new career, you did the research, you applied for the job, you got the interview, and you got rejected? What now? Here’s an excerpt from a conversation I had this week with a colleague. We have both been trying phenomenally big new things. “I feel exhausted. I […]
Career Change at 40: Have you ever been triggered into trying to be someone you are not? Oscar Wilde did say “be yourself, everyone else is taken”. But, maybe we all have an element of people-pleasing within us? A really big trigger for me lies around going into situations I am unfamiliar with. As a […]