Career Coaching: Take Your Time! I am SUCH a “human-doing”!!!!! Honestly, I plow on, until I literally hit the wall! And my husband looks at me in dismay as I am surprised by this outcome all over again! Last night I was stopped in my tracks and I took what is for me, a RADICAL choice. […]
Career Coaching: Coached. I am allowing myself to be coached. Oh My Goodness is it brilliant! I had forgotten how incredible it is to have someone witness for me. To have someone fully in my corner. To mirror me and to challenge me when I get stuck. This coach doesn’t coach as I do. She’s different. […]
Career coach hourly rate? I don’t charge a career coach hourly rate. That is because, you unless we have a pre-existing relationship, only the smallest increments of changes can be made within an hour. If you’ve reached the stage of considering hiring a career coach, then my guess is that you’re hoping for (or even […]
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 […]
Where should you be conducting your job search? Nope, it’s not in the outside world to begin with. Initially, there needs to be an internal job-search. Your first question needs to be: “what gives me joy?”. This is NOT cosmic waffle. This is a genuinely valuable question considering that you will be spending around a […]
One of my favourite Job Change Quotes is this: “if you want to achieve greatness, stop asking for permission” This really resonates with me because, as the daughter or a head-teacher, I spent the first 15 years asking for permission to do EVERYTHING. There wasn’t much that my mother did not know about my […]
CPD points: This link to the Chartered Institute of Public Relations describes what activities, engaged with in the right way, count as CPD points, in the PR sector. I think most industry sectors have a similar CPD points system. It is my opinion that most sector’s points systems miss the whole point of CPD entirely! […]
What did I learn from yesterday’s professional world? Firstly, that even if I have been absolutely rubbish in my admin, (& I really had!), I can be absolutely excellent in stepping into my supervisory role spontaneously. Having realised I had failed to book the appointment in my own diary, and the client called…. I still […]
This is a question we often ask ourselves, but in this case I do not mean ‘are you running yourself into the ground trying to fit everything and everyone that you ‘should’ into your day?’ What I am asking is “what are you doing with the Spaces In-between?” Within the pauses, the sitting in traffic, […]