Career Coaching: Finding Your Tribe — Stepping out of the corporate and civil service roles I had in the past has been a revelation to me – why? Because once I started doing work that was true to the real me and, in alignment with my soul, this is what pulled my tribe around me […]
Career Coaching: SMEs. The Pandemic has been disastrous for Businesses in terms of SMEs. Whilst a multitude of new enterprises were borne out of furlough, the number of self-employed folks has dropped so there is a 600,000 deficit – And SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND people is a LOT. “During more than half a dozen editions of […]
Career Coaching: Overtime. According to HR review “three-quarters of staff work overtime for free in the UK!!! Many of the workers said they worked the overtime as they were keen to prove their worth for job security. The average amount of additional hours worked over the course of a month was found to be 16 […]
Career Coaching: Is Work Insane? Or, are you actually behaving in an insane way about work? Are You consistently doing the same thing over and over again and still expecting a different outcome? Are you sick and tired of being sick and tired? Do you want to stop now? Or, do you want more of that particular […]
Career Coaching: Happiness — The figures state that a third of you employed people are unhappy at work here in the UK? “The world’s ‘largest study of work happiness’ has found only 27 percent of UK workers say they are happy at work most of the time,” With more than 170,000 UK responses this research by […]
Career Coaching: Slow the Fxxk Down!!!! Last year in Crete myself, my beloved, and the boy, I got a boat across the island of Gavdos. We got a VERY fast boat across a VERY bumpy bit of the Agean sea to Gavdos. I had driven the trip. I wanted to do something exciting! And, I absolutely […]
Career Coaching: Change — Are You Ready for change – or do you just think you are? You see there’s a step to take BEFORE change that’s not that comfortable: Frederick Perls, in his “Paradoxical Theory of Change” States: “ Change occurs when one becomes what he is, not when he tries to become what he is not. “ […]
Career Coaching: Fearful? So, during the pandemic, you have discovered you don’t like your job. So, what’s keeping you there? It will be one of two things: Firstly you may not know what’s next? Secondly, you are fearful of change? Possibly it is a combination of both! That leaves you stuck — […]
Career Coaching: Are you Exhausted? The McKinsey report “Women in the Workplace 2021” states: “A year and a half into the COVID-19 pandemic, women have made important gains in representation, and especially in senior leadership. But the pandemic continues to take a toll. Women are now significantly more burned out—and increasingly more so than men.” […]
Career Coaching: The Great Resignation? “Almost a quarter of workers are actively planning to change employers in the next few months, a report has claimed, as part of a “great resignation” prompted by a high number of vacancies and burnout caused by the pandemic.” The Guardian dated November 1st. However, a month on, and what’s actually […]