I took the following paragraph from sage journals which describes Professional Identity Construction. As i read it I began to panic at the complexity of the layers of the formation of each identity. I began to feel fearful at the shifting boundaries both internally and outside of each of us. I wanted to harness and […]
Wikipedia define Professional Development opportunities as this: “Professional development is learning to earn or maintain professional credentials such as academic degrees to formal coursework, conferences and informal learning opportunities situated in practice. It has been described as intensive and collaborative, ideally incorporating an evaluative stage” Therefore learning opportunities equal the the hands on kind […]
Professional Development Trends: The professional landscape changes daily. Changes are driven by money and politics and global markets. Driven by eternal influences this landscape is mostly out of our control. Professional Development trends follow these changes in the work landscape and these too are outside our remit of design. The piece of the employment jigsaw […]
Career Coach Bristol: The best thing about being a career coach in Bristol is the diversity of the employment landscape here. For a city that has it’s roots in the tradition of sea-faring, the challenges of the slave trade and the establishment of banking, there has grown a rebellious undertow of ‘we can do this another […]
Engaging with an authentic career coach will take you through a rigorous and thorough process. As coach and client, we need to explore aspects your past in order to tease out the threads that you wish to replicate for your career future. A good career coach will examine the professional environments you have previously experienced. […]
Running a business is the same as organising a good party. Its terrifying to plan. It is easy and joyous to partake in once its in progress. The emotional rollercoaster of the social host, mirror that of an entrepreneurial start-up exactly. When I began to play with the notion of setting up in business I […]
I advocate taking a business strategy day every 6 months. For myself this has felt like a luxury given that I am a sole trader, and have a multitude of other roles to juggle in my life. However, in service of walking the talk that I talk, I do it anyway. What is becoming more […]
One if the real perks of my job is the very real brilliance that fills the space we share as soon as a client enters the room. What he or she brings is their own wisdom and knowing. We then embark on a collaborative journey, pooling our resources in service of meeting the objectives […]
When your oddity becomes your asset. When starting a new business it seemed every one was banging on about ‘identifying your USP‘ and it’s took me a while to work that out. What was unique about my business or service? Accessing business advisors and other entrepreneurs and mentors and search engines I googled’ til I […]
Rebecca now will be on annual leave until the 22nd of August. She will be staring at a view not unlike this. She may not be contemplating her own, or indeed anyone else’s career during this time. She will however resume her blog, renewed, on the 22nd of this month. Enjoy your summer! Rebecca: The […]