Career Coaching: Do You Give Refunds? — This is a contentious question and that’s because ‘money’ always has such a lot of baggage around it, both societal and personal. . And my answer to ‘Do You Give Refunds’ is ‘No’. . That feels like a bold and challenging thing for me to say: . And, I […]
Career Coaching: I Don’t Believe in one-off coaching sessions with clients where we have no pre-existing relationship. Why? Because there rarely are there quick-fixes to people’s professional challenges What looks like a behavioural issue in an interview is always linked to something deeper in the person who’s not performing as they wish they could. Getting […]
Career Coaching: Impact — One of the things I adore about coaching is the privilege of seeing the outcomes of this work in the long run. This takes many different forms: It can be a delightful and unexpected email from far-flung foreign lands celebrating a client’s achievement. This work goes far and wide in the […]
Career Coaching: CVs. I’m often asked, “Will you help me update my CV?” Seems logical — As a career coach, I should provide this service, right? However, on the whole, my answer is ‘No’. Why is that? It’s because your CV is merely the tip of the iceberg of WHO you bring to your professional world. […]
Career Coaching: What Do I Do Next? Humans turn up in this coaching space often knowing that they are deeply unhappy doing their work, but they have no idea where to look for their next opportunity. What do I do next? I can turn my hand to anything so what is MY thing? The clients […]
Career Coaching: Despair — A client came to me saying these words: I despise the senior leadership team. What do I do? . She was distressed . She had worked with the organisation for well over two decades. . She had risen from a Saturday girl to a really senior position. . A new CEO had […]
Career Coaching: Rebellion — I broke my own bloody rules (AGAIN!!!) In April of this year, I carved out a new ‘default diary” to protect my sanity. I closed the doors of the business to new clients: Taking part in a research PhD had shown me that I was seriously burning out trying to launch my […]
Why is Career Coaching Important? — Good question. If, like me, you can turn your hand to just about anything. And yet you don’t feel that you have found YOUR thing… If, like me, you have wandered along your career pathway doing what you ‘should’ and what others have guided you towards doing…. If like me […]
Career Coaching: Are You “Quiet Quitting”? “Quiet quitting is a term for when workers only do the job that they are being paid to do, without taking on further tasks or responsibilities, and data has highlighted employees are working on average an additional 3.98 hours a week, opening up the discussion of what employers can […]
Career Coaching: The REAL work. This might sound paradoxical, but The Work in career coaching ISN’T concerned with choosing your next career at all….So, what is The REAL Work in this space? It’s the deep dive into understanding yourself and seeing what drives you. This is getting the headtorch on and going back to see what […]