Career Coaching: Change — Are You Ready for change – or do you just think you are? You see there’s a step to take BEFORE change that’s not that comfortable: Frederick Perls, in his “Paradoxical Theory of Change” States: “ Change occurs when one becomes what he is, not when he tries to become what he is not. “ […]
Career Coaching: Fearful? So, during the pandemic, you have discovered you don’t like your job. So, what’s keeping you there? It will be one of two things: Firstly you may not know what’s next? Secondly, you are fearful of change? Possibly it is a combination of both! That leaves you stuck — […]
Career Coaching: Are you Exhausted? The McKinsey report “Women in the Workplace 2021” states: “A year and a half into the COVID-19 pandemic, women have made important gains in representation, and especially in senior leadership. But the pandemic continues to take a toll. Women are now significantly more burned out—and increasingly more so than men.” […]
Career Coaching: The Great Resignation? “Almost a quarter of workers are actively planning to change employers in the next few months, a report has claimed, as part of a “great resignation” prompted by a high number of vacancies and burnout caused by the pandemic.” The Guardian dated November 1st. However, a month on, and what’s actually […]
Career Coaching: Myth Busting: As a coach who’s been at the coal face of one-to-one coaching for a decade, 2020 brought the revelation of the richness of holding group coaching programmes. Honestly, as a self-confessed introvert, I was skeptical. And, I was shown the potency of six individuals, weaving their magic around each other as they […]
Career Coaching: What’s Your Superpower? I’m noticing just how differently we view ourselves from the inside, totally ignoring what others see of us from the outside. Would it be useful to harness that information? I know, we have ALL been through the 360 performance process, and somehow, soliciting the opinions of bosses and colleagues we neither like […]
Career coaching: Quitting – In the northern hemisphere, we are rarely given permission to ‘quit’. I believe that ‘quitting’ is seen as a failure – I have the tenacity of a daemon and, this tenacity can be my downfall it’s taken me close to death on occasions … . These days it is SO much better/ healthier […]
Career coaching: Walking my talk – I’ve had a reminder over the past year of exactly how hard I ask my clients to work & the discomfort I expect them to face. The transformation that leads to a career-change or a business-build is not that of the tasks that need to happen on the outside. Before that, […]
Career Coaching: Really Heard. How does it feel for you when you are heard? And, what happens as a result of that witnessing? My experiences show it’s VALUABLE! . Today I had a mundane, small boy-related, ‘I’m excluded’ incident. Doesn’t matter now what it was. But, when I got back from the school run I was […]
Career Coaching: Workaholic. So, how’s your ‘responsible workaholic”? Just asking because mine has been in full flow during the last 18 months…I have taken myself to the wall and beyond several times and now this needs to stop. And, my question was not an insult. The “Responsible Workaholic” is a personality type named in Karlah’s Process […]