Career Coaching: SMEs. The Pandemic has been disastrous for Businesses in terms of SMEs. Whilst a multitude of new enterprises were borne out of furlough, the number of self-employed folks has dropped so there is a 600,000 deficit – And SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND people is a LOT. “During more than half a dozen editions of […]
Career Coaching: Have You Been Hijacked? Have you spent a lifetime being hijacked into working on visions belonging to others? Are you that can-do individual who gets hauled in to collaborate, problem-solve, design the way forward? Has it ever dawned on you that you could be using all of your skills, capabilities, and experiences in […]
Career coaching: Envy. How are you with the darker emotions in work and business? It’s taken me a few years to befriend them. There are still days where I judge my reactions and believe I shouldn’t be thinking what I am thinking. I read this quote yesterday and it made me grin: . ‘Our best competitors reveal […]
Career Coaching: Foundation Stones. Are you clearing the way right now? Are you finding that you are jettisoning the things, actions and people that do not serve you? And more importantly, do you know why you are doing so, now? If 2020 was the year of awakening. 2021 is the year of actioning what we learned. . This […]
Career Coaching: Who will you NOT let down? So, there are only two ways I know of doing a scary thing. One is to decide you’re going to do it and two is to tell people you’re going to do it…. then, you have to show up! I have discovered that I WILL let myself down, […]
Career Coaching: Your Future-Self. Does it feel like time is elastic to you? Looking back, I now recognise that I have had glimpses of my future-selves in the past. Then I have pinged straight back to where I was, a bit bemused at the potential I have seen, and continued as normall and pretended it had […]
Career Coaching: Alchemy. Today I witnessed as a client worked their way through a tricky time in their life. By the end of the session, they had worked out that this tricky-bit had given them their gift. As painful as it was to see, it was so good to see this outcome. I can say the same […]
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: What Matters? Ok, so here we are facing a pandemic. Most of us are in lockdown. Who would have thought this would be happening! In fact, from a business point of view, 2020 never had the clarity its title promised. With Brexit looming, no business could even have a 12-month forecast as we have […]
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 […]