Professional Behaviours: Professionalism in business all about is showing up when you said you would. It’s about doing what you said you would do. It’s about being willing to listen and to really hear what is said. Professionalism is the ability to be agile in how you respond the information you are given. There 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 […]
This is the definition of professionalism by Oxford Dictionaries “The competence or skill expected of a professional. ‘the key to quality and efficiency is professionalism’” When I was in my 20s I really wanted to be seen as professional. And I struggled with it so much because I didn’t seem to understand the rules and […]
Are you very particular regarding your work environment temperature? I am too, but, in this case, I refer not to the mercurial temperature. I refer to the temperature of the relationship with the people I collaborate with. There are two things in particular that define this temperature. Within these environments, I seek to work with people […]
When we examine work environment types we can be overly simplistic in our requirements. Whilst some individuals obviously need to be working outdoors. Other individuals like my husband, actually need to be office-based because he is so sweet (read that with the appropriate level of sarcasm), I’m sure he might dissolve in the rain. This piece […]
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 […]
Forbes is pretty scathing about the leadership development provision currently on offer, stating that our definition of leadership is too narrow. I concur because our definition of leadership IS way too narrow and thus we miss such potential. Do you believe everyone has leadership potential? I do. Forbes says that a leader is anyone who […]
Your Leadership style will be entirely your own. Culturally we probably carry unconscious bias about how a “leadership” will look, behave and ‘be’. As my husband says; “assumption is the mother of all fxxk ups!” and, I am inclined to agree. “Don’t you ever believe that you cannot lead because no organisation has given you […]
Looking at the quote below you might anticipate that only those at ‘The Top’ can be leaders or indeed need leadership coaching. “Leadership Coaching, however, is a collaborative, individualised relationship between a leader and the coach — the leader could well be an executive, manager, supervisor, team leader or business owner for example — anyone in charge or responsible for a group of people. Coaching is […]
Return To Work Joy: I have a friend and colleague who is currently two days back into her return to work following her maternity leave. I’m guessing that she may not yet agree with the fact that a return to work is a joy…? But she will! We do get SO much from work. When […]