Have you got a new idea? My Career Guidance: Courageous would be to protect that new growth. I don’t know about you, but in my enthusiasm for new things, or indeed in my need to approval, I can expose my new idea to all sorts of people who aren’t in a position to be kind to […]
Career Guidance 2018: Who do you think is ‘worst’ at knowing what to do next in their professional development? Would you be surprised if I told said that it was those of you who did best at school who struggle most in managing your next steps? Why? Because those of us who are really excellent at […]
My career guidance job is to ask the right questions in order that you can choose your own route. My career guidance job is not to tell you where to go. What is it that happens when, instead of accepting external guidance on your career, you yourself generate your own decisions regards your next professional […]
Career Guidance Bristol: This might come as a surprise, but as a career coach, I do not give much career guidance. This is what I provide instead: I will give you time: to reflect and set down anything that no longer serves you. I will give you space in order to harness those brilliant things […]
My Career Guidance to You for 2018 is this: “NEVER dismiss your existing skills, capabilities and knowledge”. One of the hardest tasks I sent my clients, all of my clients, is to name their kills capabilities and knowledge. I ask them to list 40. By which I mean 40 of each…. there are usually complaints! Why is […]
Winter Solstice Blessings! And, It’s all about the nourishment right now. The shortest day and the longest night before we welcome back the light. This is the time to reflect on what has gone, to be grateful for what it brought and to begin, just begin, to seed the very new beginnings of the next […]
I am noticing increasingly in the career coaching work I do is just how very depleted each client is when they show up here. It seems it is easy to forget to attend to our internal work environment. We began two new coaching journeys yesterday: Take two very different clients of different genders and industry […]
Leadership programmes and where they go wrong: McKinsey Is pretty scathing of these, sometimes extortionately expensive, investments in accelerating employees with potential. There are four main reasons that these programmes seem to fail: From “overlooking context…” Rules, guidelines, and protocol are only effective when they are fit for purpose. They can only be fit for purpose […]
Did you give yourself some return to work credit? It’s so easy to discount the sheer level of adjustment that returning to work requires of us. Having been too unwell to engage in paid employment for a couple of years in my thirties, in my mid-forties I find myself in a polar opposite situation. “My world is […]
In the HSE Return To work Form there is this guidance: “If staff take time off work because of work related stress, getting them back to work as quickly as possible is important………. In general, people find it more difficult to return to work after a long-term absence.” In general, I have to concur because […]