Career Coach Uk: Whether I am coaching here in the UK, or overseas, I need to bear in mind that my experience is never the same as anyone else’s. However close together, or far apart we reside. I need to be really wary of making assumptions. This is the purpose of ‘Socratic questioning’. Wikipedia give this […]
Career Coach Bristol: The best thing about being a career coach in Bristol is the diversity of the employment landscape here. For a city that has it’s roots in the tradition of sea-faring, the challenges of the slave trade and the establishment of banking, there has grown a rebellious undertow of ‘we can do this another […]
Engaging with an authentic career coach will take you through a rigorous and thorough process. As coach and client, we need to explore aspects your past in order to tease out the threads that you wish to replicate for your career future. A good career coach will examine the professional environments you have previously experienced. […]
Sustainability, be it personal or professional, always involves nourishment. Women are not great at meeting their own needs before those of others. Women who juggle professional pressures alongside kids or the needs of elderly parents in their personal worlds, are particularly bad at squashing self care into the mix. Frankly speaking thus leads to burnout. […]
I was taught that ‘I want doesn’t get’ when I was small…. But, I am discovering in adulthood, that this isn’t necessarily true. Ok, we do need a bit of a shift in manners perhaps, add a ‘please’ and who knows what might happen. The essence of both ‘wanting’ and indeed of ‘asking’ are just […]
It strikes me that once you have had a glimpse of brilliance, you can never truly can never go back to where you were before that experience. Whatever follows in your life or work, you will always have that knowledge. Be it having secured that new position, of completing that amazing project or gaining that […]
Making Reparation can strengthen a business relationship. Whatever your industry sector or role, whatever your actual work involves, most of us need to relate to other humans. Wherever there are human relationships, there is always the possibility of misunderstanding by one or other of the people involved. Misunderstandings easily rupture an existing relationship. When I […]
Running a business is the same as organising a good party. Its terrifying to plan. It is easy and joyous to partake in once its in progress. The emotional rollercoaster of the social host, mirror that of an entrepreneurial start-up exactly. When I began to play with the notion of setting up in business I […]
A meeting with my business mentor today had me noticing how essential it is to have mentors, supervisors and fellow coaches to notice my own blind spots. Feeling dulled and unmotivated I wasn’t really sure what I wanted from my meeting with this wise gentleman, but it was in the diary and I showed up […]
I advocate taking a business strategy day every 6 months. For myself this has felt like a luxury given that I am a sole trader, and have a multitude of other roles to juggle in my life. However, in service of walking the talk that I talk, I do it anyway. What is becoming more […]