Career Coach Charge: There is a lot to be said for being compassionate to colleagues and customers when behaviour is not top notch. We all have days where we make mistakes or misunderstood the instructions or things are kicking off at home and that leaks into our professional worlds. “Never Judge a book by its […]
Leadership Coaching Guardian: True Guardianship involves Removing The Leadership Mask. There is a leadership style that is masked. It is a Leadership style that is top-down, infallible, closed, non-curious and definitely unapproachable. You may be familiar with this kind of leadership style. If you are anything like me then this Leadership style won’t bring out the best […]
Career Coaching Strategies: Why Learning styles are important Well, one individual I have been working with discovered it was his learning style that was actually preventing him from getting his job. He was focused and fascinated enough to have gained an MA in his sector of choice. But, could he actually get the job he […]
Your Leadership Coaching Pledge: Whatever you Leadership role, never forget to nourish yourself first and foremost I get business owners showing up and they are tired. I get policymakers wandering in who are worn right down. I get change Makers coming through the door and they are utterly exhausted. Nobody inspired anyone else to do […]
Career Coaching Narratives: Are you telling yourself a dark story? Be really wary of filling the gaps with your own negative narrative. Our brains are predisposed to be negative. Why? In order that we can seek out the dangers that threaten us. That does serve a purpose, and, it is not always useful. As […]
Career Coaching Price: isn’t it easy to tell ourselves we have failed, when what we have actually done is lost sight of the bigger picture… I had a wise therapist who would hear my opening tales of woe and respond with something akin to “everything is perfect as it is”. I would feel utterly murderous and […]
Leadership Coaching Costs: There is a particular trait that I see in ‘my’ leaders. They are the intuitive types, the whole systems thinkers, they can spot in an instant when something is not working. They are often considered disruptive for trying to solve these problems because other humans are terrified of change. These truth-speaker and […]
Career Coach Diploma in Catastrophising: What to do when you f**k up! Are you prone to catastrophic thinking? Do you traumatise yourself and veer between the worst possible outcomes when things seem to be going wrong? Here’s a real story that might resonate with you…. Ten minutes deep into a coaching session with a client there’s a […]
Leadership Coaching and Development: Unashamedly political, I spend a lot of time in my life and my work defining what constitutes ‘good leadership’. I don’t believe that our government is exhibiting any of the traits I seek. Let’s take a look at the current political circumstances as if you were running a business shall we […]
Career Coach: Résumé. The story of the introvert and the extrovert. I work with both types of individuals, on a daily basis in a career context. The fundamental difference is this: Introverts source their energy from inside of themselves. Extroverts are energised by being around others. They source their energy externally. Introverts ‘need to be […]