Wikipedia define Professional Development opportunities as this: “Professional development is learning to earn or maintain professional credentials such as academic degrees to formal coursework, conferences and informal learning opportunities situated in practice. It has been described as intensive and collaborative, ideally incorporating an evaluative stage” Therefore learning opportunities equal the the hands on kind […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
I am a professional planner. By which a mean, given half a chance, I would be a real mind-mapping, list-ticking, diary-scheduling, attitude-choosing, control-freak of a planner. My days can be a series of alarms set to remind me of the next client, the scheduled Skype session, the shift between the roles of mother, coach, supervisor, […]
My colleague announced yesterday “I have never met anyone who is SO curious before”, as I hypothesised about the motivations of a neighbour. They dad reversed their van, rather forcefully, into their own (adjoining), house. We all felt the impact… My Beloved’s response would be: ‘they just fxxked up!’. My question is always ‘but why?’. […]