Want some Advice: Here goes. Show up, give your best and let go of the outcome. We spend so much time worrying about the future that we forget to focus on the present. Why? because The future is built out of the blocks that we build in the here and now If we don’t focus […]
Career coach Education: Yesterday a valued colleague of mine said these word to me: “If you knew how to handle failure then you can do anything – the exams will only get you so far. Less anxious and less fear or failure and then the world is open to you.” […]
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 […]
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 […]
Is it important that your career coach UK based? Well, that depends on your preferences and needs. What I find interesting about one mentoring relationship that I have is that as a mentee, I am diametrically opposed to my mentor. We do not share our gender or age, our country of origins could not be […]
The career coach questionnaire is the primary tool of any coach. In fact, The entire coaching process is built on the asking of questions. These questions will be asked in a variety of ways. Face to face coaching will involve a multitude of questions being put to you verbally. There will be questions put to […]
I am often asked “career coach vs career counsellor: what’s the difference?” And that’s a great question. Broadly the difference between the two disciplines is this: A counsellor seeks to explore that past, find integration and help you move into your present. Conversely, a coach will work with your “present” to help you to create […]
It’s a natural thing to be curious about starting career coaching what to expect … Most people do show up saying things like “I’ve never done anything like this before” and I guess that until there is a need to then there is no reason to know … So perhaps I can reassure you by giving […]