Career Coaching: Encouragement. One of the things I am noticing strongly in my work with clients is how much people are discounting their achievements. It seems ‘in lockdown’, we miss the mirrors of other people’s gratitude and affirmation of what we have achieved. I think this can be very similar to those of us who are […]
Career Coaching: Nourishment. In the blessed rooms of AA, they say, ‘you cannot give away what you haven’t got.’ A couple of decades ago, I think I took this as an insult. These words triggered my inadequacy – what do you mean I don’t have it? Now, I have a deeper understanding, and I was reminded […]
Career Coaching: True Feasibility. I’ve been looking at trees. What if we treated our careers more like nature treats her growth? What if, like trees, we headed for the longevity of the growth of a trunk as opposed to the cheap flare of momentary satisfaction of blossom? In our current lockdown, I am conscious more than ever […]
Career Coaching: Discomfort. The Stress responses of different people have been intriguing to me… However ‘normal’ things appear, with spring doing its thing and nature reclaiming our urban spaces, we ARE stressed nevertheless… And, these stress responses are all showing up; fight, flight, freeze, even giggle … (my personal favourite), in the people I love […]
Career coaching: Childcare. With this pandemic, I believe we have the potential for huge changes to our work and our society. Nobody at all has valued childcare, for decades. Therefore, we neither value the childcarers nor the children themselves. This means we have been dismissing the whole next generation. We are also dismissing huge swathes […]
Career Coaching: Patience. It can take a little time to construct a really solid platform upon which to build your career. In a society where we expect everything ‘ Now.’ (if not ‘yesterday’!), it feels counterintuitive to carve out the time to stop and to reflect. In reality, it is important to spend time choosing […]
Leadership Coaching: Agility. There once was a leader who was Old Skool. He wore a suit every day. He worked in a young environment and all the others dressed smart-casual. He was very sales oriented. He did listen to his employees but would often take the reverse decision at the last minute. Morale was low in […]
Career Coaching: Teamwork. People look at me as a Sole Trader and assume I’m on my own. In reality, I have a whole team surrounding me. I have two questions for you: Firstly, what can you delegate? This might be paid roles or it might be reciprocal. You might find it really easy to promote another […]
Career Coaching: Strengths. Play to your strengths. Many people show up here saying “I’m here because I am not good at XY&Z”. My response is ‘what ARE you good at? Shall we work with that instead?’. We are so good at trying to be everything to everyone that we even work on the bits we […]
Career Coaching: Contracting. When a business of project fails It’s rarely down to the quality of the skill or the service. It is usually the lack of business-like behaviour that has the provider on the floor. You may be really skilled, gifted and talented but that counts for very little if your business protocols and […]