Career Coaching: A Client Told Me This … . Whilst I would never use a client’s words on the grounds of confidentiality, in short, what she said was that, mid-way through this coaching process that she was REALLY struggling with work and her world. I thought it might be useful for more than just her to […]
Career Coaching: Take Your Time! I am SUCH a “human-doing”!!!!! Honestly, I plow on, until I literally hit the wall! And my husband looks at me in dismay as I am surprised by this outcome all over again! Last night I was stopped in my tracks and I took what is for me, a RADICAL choice. […]
Career Coaching: What’s Next? This morning has consisted of a flurry of emails and calls from existing and new clients wanting to resume or begin coaching. What’s happened? I think that mostly, we are all beginning to recognise that life will never be the same again and secondly that life must go on anyway. With Lockdown, […]
Career coaching: Value. We do not know how to value ourselves professionally. As I was staring this enterprise I was given this piece of advice. “Set your prices higher than you imagine you could ever charge – you will grow into them” Of course, I ignored this guidance. I felt I was ‘too newly qualified’, ‘too […]
Business Coaching: Leading Assertively: “If you don’t ask you don’t get” and this rings true in life and business. If you don’t ask clearly then you still won’t get. I have found that there are very few accurate mind readers in this world and thus my guess is that you do not work with or […]
How are you with Business Coaching Boundaries? Have you ever felt extremely frustrated with other’s demands when, in hindsight, you recognise that you could have asserted your boundaries earlier? There is much talk of ‘responsiveness‘, ‘agility‘ and ‘iteration‘ in leadership right now. These certainly have a place in the engagement of individuals in the development […]
Business coaching for sustainability: I have had some realisations regards my drivers for practising as a coach. I recognise now I was allowed to ask how anything worked other than humans when I was small. Now I get handsomely paid to engage in really open and contracted professional curiosity. “I can say what I see, […]
Towards the end of our work together, when a client had decided that they may indeed extricate themselves from the working culture that has been causing them unhappiness, they suddenly realise that they have chosen to go it alone. With our working relationship drawing to a close, ‘ALONE’ can shout right out! This is the […]
The chances are that if you are taking a job satisfaction survey then you are probably not as satisfied at work as you wish. Either someone else has asked you to do it, in which case that is about their satisfaction with your work, or, you are so bored and disconnected at work then you can […]
Do you know whatI learned today about business basics? When it comes down to the nitty gritty, any business is an entirely practical endeavour. Yep! You can go on training courses and you can read books and you can strategise as much as you like, but, the bottom line lies in ‘just doing it’. And […]