Career Coaching: Communication. If you want to step into your authority, be congruent with you communication. One of the habits I see is this: an authoritative statement, immediately dismissed by a giggle. In my opinion this is due to fear. Fear of conflict, fear of discomfort, fear of not being liked, fear of the silence that […]
Leadership Coaching: DIY: If you don’t like how others are doing it then maybe it’s time to lead things yourself? I’m not advocating walking up and pushing your CEO aside. I’m not sure how well that would really go down in reality. What I am noticing is that if you consistently see better, more effective […]
Career Coaching: skills: What do you consider your skills to be? Often we don’t notice we have them at all. Either we find something ‘easy’ or we can’t do it at all. Where then is the yield or the gain in that for us?If we do not know what we truly have then how on earth […]
Career Coaching: Contributing. I have become involved in collaboration with a heart-based organisation. This is SO good for refocusing my intent. “ Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country.” JFK Similarly, ask not what this job, organisation, or course can do you too, ask what you can […]
Career Coaching: Disaster? What happens when you have considered would be in your current sector or role, for the rest of your working years, and it goes? What happens when that plan gets disrupted by circumstances right out of your control. What happens to your professional plans when the paradigm changes to the extent where […]
Career Coaching: Curiosity might well have killed the cat. It is our curiosity however that enables us to learn. If we cannot he curious and we cannot ask questions, then how else can we get the information that we need?Do you know what gets in the way of my curiosity? It’s my ego. My ego is […]
Career Coaching: Explained. Here a client of mine describes her experiences of career coaching with a Daemon to a potential client. Unsurprisingly, after these words of recommendation, they have come on board. I thought it might be interesting to have glimpse into this work from a client’s perspective … 1) What were your expectations of […]
Career Coaching: Reflection In this fast-paced, multiple-identity-juggling, demonstrate-your-worth-relentlessly culture. When do you take the chance to reflect on the things you have done? In my opinion, it is a rare phenomenon. In my opinion reflecting is a skill well worth cultivating. Often a client will show up saying ‘ I wondered whether to come as […]
Career Coaching: inner critic.What has your inner critic sabotaged for you recently? I’ve been all too aware of mine in recent weeks.After four decades I have finally located the place where my inner critic is most active and powerful. This is a great piece of information to have for all of us because then you […]
Career Coaching: Reflection. If you keep doing the same thing again and again, you will get the same result. If you want things to change then you absolutely have to do something differently. How differently? Well, that is up to you. The major decider on the size of the changes depends on how swiftly you […]