Leadership Coaching Skills: Take care of yourself. The best leaders lead well because they know what it’s like to go ‘through it’. Those who have known loss, heartbreak, dark days or years, those who have turned to face the despair in their own lives in order to assimilate it and heal, these are the people […]
Career Coach Mentor:’ How do we take care of each other at work?’ Was a question asked by a colleague today? Given that all present at this meeting had either been recently bereaved or had this journey looming it seems a very wise question… What I was noticing was this: the Colleague who asked the […]
My absolute best career coach book is this: “Essential Career Transitions Coaching Skills” by Caroline Talbott. It’s awesome. It’s tiny. It’s packed with a multitude of juicy interventions, all with a career bent to them. It’s a modest tome in size. Its author is also disarmingly modest. And, out of all the hundreds of self-help, psychotherapy, supervision […]
Leadership coaching meaning: This question for me focuses less on the types of coaching (which are just a bunch of interventions used at the right time), and more on the type of leadership. Once you know the type of leadership the process of coaching forms itself right around that. Leaders come in a multitude of […]
Looking at the Ikigai image below there arise some career coach questions and answers. If at work you are experiencing feelings of “Excitement, complacency and uncertainty” This means you are meeting three of the four needs of your Ikigai. You are doing what you love. You are providing something the world needs. You are being […]
Leadership Quote: With the passing of Kofi Anan, I was reminded of a wonderful leadership quote in a speech he made in April of 2018 ” leadership is not about the individual” And that says SO much to me. Leadership is NOT about status and leadership is NOT about ego. Leadership is NOT about power. […]
Career Coach Qualifications: When looking to make a change in your career is a professional development loan what you really need? Let me explain my question further. There can often be a sense of going right back to square one if we choose to make a career move. When we are at a crossroads in our […]
Leadership Coaching: Have you gained significant seniority in your sector? Are you seen as an authority in your field? And, are you experiencing real frustrations of leading within organisations and systems that really need to transition? An organisation that has to change in order to find better.. ethics…or be more transparent…or more empowering … and therefore […]
One of my favourite career coach testimonials contained these words: “ relentlessly challenging attitude delivered with enough warmth so as not to feel intimidating” Now that is one of the biggest compliments I could receive for a very rigorous and robust piece of work. I think it emphasises the efficacy of coaching. It also places […]
Career Coach Vacancies. In order to get through the tough bits at work, and in life, you need to really care. You need to have enough care to have the difficult conversations. You need to have enough courage to hear the hurtful things and to want to do it differently next time. In the search […]