Career coach: Concentration. Beware of diluting your unique self. Sure, when there’s a seed of an idea, for a career path, or a business or a project, do your market research……. and then….. shut the doors for a while. Disconnect from contaminants for a little time in order that your idea can grow in its unique […]
Career Coaching Rewards: If it is feeling like its all uphill right now, perhaps there is a habit you could break: Try giving yourself the credit for what you HAVE done: I don’t know about you but I can spend a lot of time assessing what I haven’t done… I spend very little time giving […]
The first rule of Leadership Coaching ‘Observe’; Stand back, observe, observe, observe Then engage… Listen, Listen, and Listen some more…..Listen to your Colleagues. Listen to your teams. Listen to your cleaner and then listen to your clients. Be. Gently. Curious. And listen. These are the people who both know the difficulties AND have their solutions… […]
Career Coach Charge: There is a lot to be said for being compassionate to colleagues and customers when behaviour is not top notch. We all have days where we make mistakes or misunderstood the instructions or things are kicking off at home and that leaks into our professional worlds. “Never Judge a book by its […]
Career Coaching Strategies: Why Learning styles are important Well, one individual I have been working with discovered it was his learning style that was actually preventing him from getting his job. He was focused and fascinated enough to have gained an MA in his sector of choice. But, could he actually get the job he […]
Career Coaching Course of Action: Coaching clients show up to work with me with one of two problems: Either, they worked very hard from the beginning to adhere to the Rules and Regulations, and still their career isn’t working out… Or, they were never very engaged with the Rules and Regulations in the first place. […]
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 […]