Career change: Values-led. Who are you hanging out with at work? Do they walk the talk they are talking? I am curious to know if it is possible to remain congruent and values-led in both work and business. The pressures on values are two-fold: Firstly, with cuts and financial squeezes as we swing away From […]
Career Change: As we grow in wisdom (and maybe age a little physically!), we begin to know our values and refine our beliefs. This can lead to a strong need for a career change. If you feel the thunder clouds gathering in you at work, this could be the reason why. I am often asked […]
Career advice: Quitting. I don’t know about you, but, for me, knowing when to quit has never been easy. My morning has been full of digital fxxk-ups: When none of the ‘devices’ will speak to each other. When I cannot open a simple document or print it (especially printing – see Eddie Izzard on that […]
Career advice: Caution. When they say, “Be careful what you ask for, you might just receive” its true. I watch careers grow themselves before my very eyes. This happens when individuals have the courage to state what it is that they really want. It’s been astounding watching one client as he has journeyed since we first met. […]
Career Guidance 2018: Who do you think is ‘worst’ at knowing what to do next in their professional development? Would you be surprised if I told said that it was those of you who did best at school who struggle most in managing your next steps? Why? Because those of us who are really excellent at […]
Career Guidance Test: I always thought that career guidance WAS a test. I thought there was a ‘right’ and a ‘wrong’, In fact, I believed it was a case of one right and many wrongs. I thought that there was one career that would suit me and all the others wouldn’t. In my 20s and 30s, […]
Career Guidance Bristol: This might come as a surprise, but as a career coach, I do not give much career guidance. This is what I provide instead: I will give you time: to reflect and set down anything that no longer serves you. I will give you space in order to harness those brilliant things […]
Professional Behaviours: Professionalism in business all about is showing up when you said you would. It’s about doing what you said you would do. It’s about being willing to listen and to really hear what is said. Professionalism is the ability to be agile in how you respond the information you are given. There is […]
Winter Solstice Blessings! And, It’s all about the nourishment right now. The shortest day and the longest night before we welcome back the light. This is the time to reflect on what has gone, to be grateful for what it brought and to begin, just begin, to seed the very new beginnings of the next […]
Work Environment Bristol: What I notice here is the sheer diversity of work environments available in this city. Based on the traditions of trading and banking, Bristol is a very wealthy city, not merely in fiscal terms but also in the richness of ideas and creativity. With the media consistently telling us this is THE […]