Leadership and Career Blog
Why You Need a Career Coach
If you feel that your career has stalled, or you're wondering how to reach your goals, it could be time to consider working with a career coach. Here are some of the signs that this may be very beneficial investment in your own future. 1. You're getting tired of your...
Leading During a Crisis: How to Be a Good Leader While Navigating Uncertainties
Most of today's population has never seen a social shift this seismic in their lifetime. Lockdown on a global scale has forced everyone to redefine normality. Emergency crises are the ultimate test for any manager in proving leadership skills. As a result, it is more...
Resilience in the Face of Changes at Work or in your Career
We all need a degree of resilience to help us in our careers - and indeed, our daily lives - as the difficulties of the past year have shown us! Let's face it, work can be a tough place at times. Whether we are dealing with unhappy customers, office politics or career...
How a Fixed or Open Mindset Changes your Career Results
Many of my clients are doubling down on their career focus after the past year of lockdown. And it makes absolute sense because, after a year of restrictions and uncertainty, this feels like a fresh start and an opportunity to tackle things with renewed optimism and...
How to Improve my Team’s Performance?
One of the biggest challenges facing today's leaders is that of performance - specifically, getting their teams to perform to the best of their abilities, in a consistent way that adds measurable value to the organisation. After all, the quest for the high-performing...
How to Become a Better Leader in the Workplace
The past year has thrown all kinds of new work challenges at us; not least the challenge of migrating to homeworking on a long-term basis and attempting to work - or manage - teams via screens! So many managers and business leaders are feeling slightly deflated at the...
How to Find a Career I Enjoy
After a year of being cooped up at home and dealing with Covid restrictions, many of us are taking stock of our professional lives and considering what our next steps will be. After all, it's a great time to reprioritise, to revisit ambitions and goals and to consider...
How to Overcome Imposter Syndrome
Even the most successful and accomplished people (and in fact, often those very people!) suffer from Imposter Syndrome, and doubt their own skills, accomplishments and even their credibility, feeling as though they will eventually be 'found out' as frauds! This way of...
Leadership and Managing Conflict in the Workplace
As a leader of a team - any kind of team - you will often be called upon to negotiate and to manage situations which involve conflict. This is natural and to be expected. Diverse teams will inevitably have personality clashes, and challenging work will often lead to...
Career Pivoting: When Plan B Becomes Plan A
Most of us reach a point when our existing career suddenly loses its spark. Perhaps the drivers that attracted us a decade ago no longer motivate us. Perhaps our priorities or life circumstances have adjusted. Maybe we have fresh ambitions or have learned more about...
How to Build Influence and Gravitas Remotely – when Working or Interviewing
It's all very well developing your presence and impact for occasions when you engage with people face to face. After all, it's so much easier to make a memorable statement when you can shake a hand, maintain eye-contact and give off the right body language to subtly...
Is remote working compounding imposter syndrome?
Imposter syndrome might sound like a term created for the social media age, but it was first recognised by psychologists in the 1970s and it's more relevant in lockdown than ever before. We've become used to working from home over the past year as a consequence of the...
5 Ways to Keep Calm During Changes at Work
Did you know that over 2 million people pass away each year from work-related illnesses? Changes at work can become a major contributing factor to stress. It’s especially for people who become distressed when encountering these sudden events. If you’re one of these,...
How to Stay Resilient When There Is Uncertainty at Work
Did you know that almost 80% of Brits commonly experience stress at work? It seems as though stress, worry, and doubt have become the standard for places of work, especially when things are a little uncertain. But, it doesn't have to be like this. Just because your...
Feeling Stuck at Work? Here’s How to Break Free
Two out of three British employees feel like they bring work stress home every single day. Do you feel like you're stuck in a rut at work recently? If you're wondering how to get out of a career rut, then your search is officially over. Find out what to do when you're...
Career Progression and Improvement: How to Keep Pushing Forward
As the highly-motivational Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson once said, "Don't work 8 hours for a company then go home & not work on your own goals. You're not tired, you're uninspired." Powerful words from a powerful entrepreneur. How does that quote apply to your...
Changing Fields: 7 Tips for a Midlife Career Change
When Gallup conducted a global poll to determine how people felt about their jobs, the results were staggering. They found that 85% of people hated their job and weren't engaged at their workplace. That's, frankly, heartbreaking. How different could the world be if...
7 Remote Work Tips for Business Leaders to Effectively Lead Remotely
Are you feeling the pressures of leading a remote team? If so, you're not alone. Whether your team is fully remote or only partially can come with added struggles from communication issues to technology nightmares. According to Buffer's 2020 State of Remote work...
Strange Times: 9 Essential Leadership Qualities During Times of Uncertainty
Being a leader in any area of life is an honour, a privilege, and an almighty responsibility. After all, people look to you for support, come to you for guidance, and rely on you for answers. You have to inspire your team, take ownership of issues, and put out...
What is Impostor Syndrome?
Ever feel as though you were a fraud, or that you didn’t belong somewhere? You may have been experiencing impostor syndrome. But how can you overcome it?