Career Coaching: Impact — One of the things I adore about coaching is the privilege of seeing the outcomes of this work in the long run. This takes many different forms: It can be a delightful and unexpected email from far-flung foreign lands celebrating a client’s achievement. This work goes far and wide in the […]
Career Coaching: CVs. I’m often asked, “Will you help me update my CV?” Seems logical — As a career coach, I should provide this service, right? However, on the whole, my answer is ‘No’. Why is that? It’s because your CV is merely the tip of the iceberg of WHO you bring to your professional world. […]
Career Coaching: What Do I Do Next? Humans turn up in this coaching space often knowing that they are deeply unhappy doing their work, but they have no idea where to look for their next opportunity. What do I do next? I can turn my hand to anything so what is MY thing? The clients […]
Career Coaching: Tell Me I’m Wrong: Agreeing on how to work together as “Coach and Coachee” is really important, and it’s a movable feast – you and I might have done a really intense piece of work together five years ago… And if you return to do some further work, we will inevitably have both changed, […]
Career Coaching: Despair — A client came to me saying these words: I despise the senior leadership team. What do I do? . She was distressed . She had worked with the organisation for well over two decades. . She had risen from a Saturday girl to a really senior position. . A new CEO had […]
Why is Career Coaching Important? — Good question. If, like me, you can turn your hand to just about anything. And yet you don’t feel that you have found YOUR thing… If, like me, you have wandered along your career pathway doing what you ‘should’ and what others have guided you towards doing…. If like me […]
Career Coaching: Are You “Quiet Quitting”? “Quiet quitting is a term for when workers only do the job that they are being paid to do, without taking on further tasks or responsibilities, and data has highlighted employees are working on average an additional 3.98 hours a week, opening up the discussion of what employers can […]
When I asked about career coaching fears, a client said these words: “My Fear Was Thinking that a career coach would be part of the corporate culture” Isn’t it interesting the conclusions we come to before we have even spoken to someone? This is no judgment of my gorgeous client – This is an Observation of […]
Fears About Career Coaching –I asked a bunch of my ‘recovering clients’ what had frightened them about coaching before they had arrived in the room to do The Work. . The Client herself described herself as “excited” before we began our journey together; however, it was her partner who had fears about her engaging with […]
A question I am frequently asked about Career Coaching concerns “Answers”.When I contact to career coach people I contact for 3 months’ worth of work – this is a deep dive, it takes commitment, half measures avail nothing — And people rightly ask. What if I still don’t know what to do at the end […]