Smart Coaching Goals: Sometimes it is harder to meet your coaching goals than you had first envisaged. This is when it can be useful to break them down into smaller steps. What seemed like an easily achievable goal at first sight, can suddenly unravel before your very eyes. Then you can be left wondering if the […]
Coaching Goals: Coaching is a goal oriented process. It is also important however to recognise when the goals you need have changed. In my experience we humans tend to evolve way faster than we expect. Therefore, if we continued to head towards our original destination, we risk atrophying our real possibilities. It is really important to […]
Interview Rejection Feedback Nobody wants to get rejected from their interview. Sometimes an interview can be really useful in showing you why you don’t want that job or to work with that particular organisation. Sometimes the interview confirms exactly why you DID want the that job or to work with these people. If this is […]
Interview Rejection There are three types of interviews that I know of: There is the ‘Successful Interview”: Congratulations; You got your job! There is the “This Ain’t It Interview”: This is the one you attend, and you kind of know that this isn’t for you. The pleasantries are made, the questions answered. The spark just […]
Here’s a good job application sample. In your Job application, please remember to say what you can do and not what you can’t. It might sound daft but really, the British can be shockingly bad at self-promotion, and, what is a job application, if not self-promotion? Claim and rename those skills: Own them, for they […]
Before filling in any job application I believe that you need to know why you are applying in the first place. If you are not wholly congruent, then, at some level the recipient will ‘get’ that! It always amazes me that whatever platform we use to communicate, our true selves are reflected there. “Always be […]
I read somewhere that peace lies in “Taking the action and letting go of the outcome”. But, isn’t that hard? How can you not mind where your action leads? But equally, might this ‘letting go’ also the best way to take any professional risk? Managing Professional Risk The only way to grow professionally, in salary, […]
What’s differentiates career counselling Bristol, from anywhere else in the world, is the energy and dynamism of this city. What people might not risk starting elsewhere, is begun here. That which people might struggle to sustain in other cities, goes right on developing here in Bristol. Whatever might not flourish in other cites grows on to be […]
Recently I received a disarmingly honest request from a client for ‘a combination of career advice, coaching and career counselling please”. I was eager to meet this individual because this request summarised exactly what is needed, in differing proportions, within this career coaching remit. However much you may wish it, it is nigh on impossible […]
There is an echo chamber in job satisfaction improvement: The question is, do we get more heard, becoming more impactful because we have status and earn more money, or, do we earn money because we get heard and are thus valued as more potent and impactful? The more you are heard the more you can […]