Have you ever wondered whether engaging an executive coach is the right thing for you or one of the leaders in your organisation? The author of this article suggests there are eight questions you should ask before making that decision… Is the leader someone who is considered high potential or in a high-impact role? Does the Read More
Career Coaching
I have always enjoyed building motivation and engagement in individuals and teams. I have great enthusiasm for working with people and helping them find their path. Having spent many years in the early part of my own career working as a university student adviser, I acquired a great breadth of knowledge about the avenues you can follow Read More
What does ‘time on’ mean to you?
I am fascinated by the field of narrative coaching and love reading the work of Dr David Drake, the founder of Narrative Coaching. In his most recent post, Dr Drake challenges our definitions of ‘time on’ and ‘time off’. He suggests we have it all wrong with our work-oriented lives, as this is not the pace Read More
International Coaching Week 2016: How Coaching Works
To celebrate Coaching Week, the International Coach Federation compiled its top coaching tips in five easy-to-watch videos. The first video How Coaching Works and is designed to help people better understand what coaching is about. Key messages: Life can be tricky tricky… there are often several paths to choose from. A coach can help you see things from a Read More
“What should I do with my life…?”
80,000 hours… this is the average number of hours that make up your working life. No wonder “what should I do with my life?” is one of the most challenging decisions we face. Should you focus on making money? Follow your passion? Be guided by your interests? Or do what will be most valuable to society? Benjamin Todd, Read More
Dealing with your ‘inner-fraud’
Are you waiting for the fraud squad to bust down your door? Imposter syndrome is nothing new, but what is it that makes us feel like such frauds? This ABC Health and Wellbeing article on Understanding Imposter Syndrome sheds some light: “Pressuring parents growing up, anxiety, or your own impossibly high standards are said to plant the seed. Read More
Reinventing your life ‘a different way’ in 2016
It’s already mid-January… the time of year when some (or many!) of us realise we have already broken our new year resolutions. The good news is that sometimes the best way to bring about change is to do less, rather than more. It’s also OK to give up on something you don’t really care about, which this article Read More
Choosing a new career
Choosing or changing career is one of the most important life decisions we ever make, but many people make career decisions without a systematic approach. To make a career decision that leads to a job that really fits you, you need to make sense of competing messages from internal and external sources. This means you need to fully Read More
Seeking Insight
I was fortunate enough to recently hear David Rock, Director and CEO of the NeuroLeadership Institute, speak about insight – something most of us would like more of! David noted that as you become more anxious and stressed, you have fewer and fewer insights. He explained that insight is “like a quiet phone ringing at a loud party”, so to achieve Read More
Changing old patterns
“To rid yourself of old patterns, focus all your energy not on struggling with the old, but on building the new.” Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book that Changes Lives (2006) by Dan Millman, Quote Page 105. Read More