Career Coach or Career Advisor? A Career Advisor can give you industry-specific guidance on your next professional steps, while a career coach can enable you to design your career manoeuvres in your own way. HOWEVER, before you begin a big coaching journey, you need to be relatively stable. — Why? Because this work is absolutely […]
How do I find a career coach I love? If you want to come to coaching for someone to fix it for you then don’t Because I won’t In the early days I tried — clients would rock up and, out of compassion for them and their pain, I’d zigzag around them, trying to make […]
Are Career Coaches Any Good? — The answer to this question ALWAYS depends on how well YOU and Your Career coach fit. Your career coach may be THE most qualified coach in the world, but if you two don’t resonate, the work will not get done. Your career coach and be THE most venerated coach […]
Potential clients often ask “How often should I meet with a career coach?” The answer to this question depends on how deep you plan to go into the work — I have had new clients arrive, and INSIST we meet every week to “Get it done as swiftly as possible.” I get this – if […]
Having met with a new, truthful, career coaching client, I received an email, including full payment, signed contract and these rather beautiful words: “I am very excited / trepidacious about our time together.“ And I WELCOME this honesty! I REALLY do. Of course there is nervousness: Firstly, it a new thing and secondly I have […]
Are you feeling SQUEEZED in your job? Has it changed quite beyond recognition? Is the outcome undeliverable as the pressure to ‘deliver’ faster has amplified? And, if you do leave, not sure what to do next? — Want to know How can Career Coaching Help? I meet people in your position every single day: What we […]
Career coaching: “You can do anything!” Said my mum excitedly when I was 35 years old and, whilst I could feel her enthusiasm, I CERTAINLY didn’t flippin feel it. — Whilst I appreciated her belief in me – it just didn’t translate in my head. . — Could I “Do Anything”??? REALLY ?!? Did I […]
Why Would I Start Career Coaching Now? ???? And, why would you change you career in the middle of winter ??? The answer of course is that you wouldn’t . Nobody would choose to change careers when they have Christmas debts and quite frankly we should ALL be hibernating What we CAN do in the […]
Career Coaching — Costs: I’m not a cheap coach, but what I am is a bloody good coach. I’m also transparent about my costs – my website has a whole page devoted to the prices I charge – it’s here. . I cannot stand it if I look at a site for any service and […]
I was having a conversation at a very beautiful funeral, and one of the mourners asked me: “Can you coach a 58-year-old woman who’s lost her way a bit?” Hell Yeah! — What a complete privilege to engage with this body of work. It would be easy to say that career coaching and age had […]