Career Development Coach: “I don’t know how you do this.. it’s like witchcraft!”, voiced a client who had just outlined her life purpose to me (& indeed to herself!), for the first time. And it Is a shock, every time we reach the heart-centre of this journey, with each individual. It does take time to get […]
Here’s a link to a Career Development Plan Template. This template appears to be logical and thus ‘should’ be easy to complete. Well for me, this kind of logic has never yet given me the answers. All I end up feeling when faced with these questions is inadequate because what appears to be logical, leaves […]
Has your career development plan gone as you had envisaged? No? Nor mine! It is 2 the two year anniversary of the Daemon Career Coach business entity, and, never could I have imagined such fun! With this in mind I wish to share a quote with you that I stumbled accross that made me grin: […]
Career development: It is the height of spring. It is the time, in the wheel of life, that the dreams and hopes that we have been nurturing since deepest winter, begin to come to fruition. In “conversations with God” by Neale Donald Walsch, the belief is that: thought, then word, makes action. It is actions that makes our dreams […]
One of my favourite Job Change Quotes is this: “if you want to achieve greatness, stop asking for permission” This really resonates with me because, as the daughter or a head-teacher, I spent the first 15 years asking for permission to do EVERYTHING. There wasn’t much that my mother did not know about my […]
Job change reason: As you will probably know from experience, the reasons for a career change are many-fold. Sometimes there are external triggers and sometimes the trigger is internal. Whichever trigger causes a career change, rarely is the transition smooth. The bumps in this journey contains our learning, so, it is not all bad. Whilst it […]
If you are seeking a Job Change then here is some valuable guidance taken from an article by Sarah Shearman in The Guardian: ‘Before you start your search for a new job or career, it is important to invest some time “getting to know yourself”, suggests Lis McGuire, “It might seem tricky, uncomfortable or uncertain, but […]
This is what Huffington Post has to say about Leadership coaching. What i take for these words is this: To be astute about others you need to be astute about yourself. It’s as simple as that. You cannot motivate others if you don’t know what drives you. You cannot lead others until you yourself know what you […]
Here’s an explanation of Leadership Styles from Wise Toast, and, If I were to pitch for one, I would cite: “4. Transformational Leadership Unlike other leadership styles, transformational leadership is all about initiating change in organizations, groups, oneself and others. Transformational leaders motivate others to do more than they originally intended and often even more […]
Leadership according to Wikipedia is: “Leadership is both a research area and a practical skill encompassing the ability of an individual or organization to “lead” or guide other individuals, teams, or entire organizations.” and yet leadership is way more complex than that. Simultaneously leadership is way more simple than the above definition too. If you […]