Here’s My favourite Career coach Quote; “Find out what you like doing best, and get someone to pay you for doing it.” Katharine Whitehorn And, If someone had said that to me a decade ago, I might have thought that they were ”Extracting the Michael”. I was raised to believe that there were certain steps that you took […]
Career Coach Training: The really important thing about career coach training is knowing it’s not just the qualification, it is the whole life experience, that counts. Of course, I’m trained: I spent a full twelve months training in “Life, Business and Executive coaching”, a further year training in Clinical Supervision, and that’s on top of all that […]
The piece of career coach advice that I consistently and persistently give is this: “Listen to yourself” “Is that it?” I hear you exclaim! “Well, I’m not paying for that!” And, you do not have to pay for it, but, you will have to practice it, and practice hard. You see we are rarely allowed […]
What is the Career coach meaning? Whilst it seems like a daft question, if you know how it really works, then you can decide if its what you need. If you left your degree anytime in the ’90s expecting your career for life and your pension to roll out before you over the next 50 […]
Want some advice from someone who does Careers Coaching Bristol? “Be More Marmite!” If you are anything like me, you may be recognising that you have spent a good part of your life trying to be what you think others have wanted you to be. By now, You might also have begun to notice that […]
Business Coaching: Be clear who exactly is in charge of what. My husband and I are both “leaders”. That means that we both think that we are right. We both think that we are right all of the time. This has caused acute conflict for a decade. Whilst I hesitate to admit this … My […]
Career Change: Biased: We all carry around a head full of unconscious biases. That’s part of the deal of being human. Until they are gently raised to consciousness, they will continue to drive us in our decision-making. It is important that we are consciously choosing the lens through which we view our world. Social talent lists these […]
I find that the biggest career change quiz is the internal one: Do you Trust your head or your heart? In My opinion, it is really wise to trust your heart and decide from there. Remember, at this point in your life, when you are choosing career change, you are in a position of power. […]
Career Change: Failure. So you decided on your new career, you did the research, you applied for the job, you got the interview, and you got rejected? What now? Here’s an excerpt from a conversation I had this week with a colleague. We have both been trying phenomenally big new things. “I feel exhausted. I […]
If you Want A Career Change: Take Action. Sounds obvious right? But it’s important to take the right kind of action. If you have chosen to change your career you don’t have to need rush. But you do need to take action. It’s important to explore, ask the questions, test things out, volunteer, be mentored, shadow […]