Coaching
3 Words to Describe Coaching with Me: Clarity, Courage & Confidence
When clients describe coaching with me, three words keep coming back: clarity, courage and confidence. Here’s what they mean in practice.
Insights
Thinking on navigating transitions in work and life.
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Career Change
SPOTLIGHT: I’m Ready for More — So Why Can’t I Get Promoted?
You have delivered, shown loyalty, ticked every box, and the promotion still has not come. What is actually in the way, and what to do about it.
Coaching
What Topics do Startup C-level Clients Bring to a Coaching Session?
Founders, CEOs and CTOs of high-growth startups often ask me what their peers bring to coaching. These are the topics that come up most.
Work Happiness
Lost Your Spark at Work? What Low Motivation Might Be Trying to Tell You
You’re good at the job, respected, well paid. And feeling flat. Why losing your spark at work is useful information, and where to look for what it’s telling you.
Coaching
Something Feels Off: What Brings People to Transition Coaching
Most people don’t come to coaching with a plan. They come with a feeling: something’s off, and pushing it aside has stopped working. The patterns I see, after 400+ clients.
Self-Reflection
End of the Year Reflection Questions
Since 2020 I have reviewed my year every six months. These are the eight reflection questions I use to close one chapter and set up the next.
Career Change
My Journey to Work Happiness Part ll (2020-2023)
Part two of my journey to work happiness: from starting the business in 2020 to today, and what it taught me about building a working life that fits.
Career Change
The Fear Inventory: A Practical Exercise for Career and Life Transitions
Name every fear or belief you have about the change, then take each one and decide: take action, write an alternative, or abandon it altogether. A step-by-step exercise.
Career Change
3 Starter Resources for Exploring Career Change
Wondering what to do with your career, but overwhelmed about where to begin? Three starter resources I recommend to almost everyone exploring a change.
Coaching
3 Words: The Value in Working with a Coach
'What are the benefits of career coaching?' It is the question underneath most chemistry calls. The honest answer, in my clients' own three words.
Career Change
Portfolio Careers (my responses for Harper's Bazaar)
With the world coming back to life in early 2022, more people were piecing together a few things at once. Clara Strunck of Harper's Bazaar asked for my thoughts on the rise of portfolio careers, and I shared them here.
Work Happiness
The Power of Maximising Your Strengths at Work
Working to your strengths changes how work feels, not just how it goes. What character strengths are, how to find yours, and how to use them more.
Resilience & Wellbeing
The Significance of Wellbeing for Performance
Wellbeing is how you feel and how you function, and it quietly drives performance. Why looking after it is not soft, it is strategic.
Confidence & Courage
How Can We #ChoosetoChallenge Ourselves?
From an International Women's Day panel: how to challenge your own safe zone, and the strategies that help you explore beyond it.
Career Change
At a Crossroads? Better Than Being at a Dead End
Crossroads are inevitable. Sometimes small, sometimes significant, always there for a reason. Four ways people respond to them, and the one that builds conviction.
Career Change
Feeling Trapped in Your Job? Start With What’s Actually Holding You There
All the reasons to go were about the job. All the reasons to stay were personal fears. Untangling those two is how the trap starts to open.
Confidence & Courage
The 10% Test: How to Try a Big Change Without Leaping
Two barriers stop most big changes: the fear of what it would break, and the unknown of how it would end. A reframe for each.
Work Happiness
5 Ways to Improve Your Happiness at Work
Happiness at work is not a perk; it is something you can deliberately build. Five research-backed ways to improve yours, starting this week.
Resilience & Wellbeing
Resilience On The Day Job: 9 Tips
Resilience is not just for crises; the day job asks for it constantly. Nine practical ways to protect your energy and bounce back at work.
Self-Reflection
5 Ways to Get Off Autopilot (and Live More Deliberately)
Autopilot keeps us in a default mode. Useful sometimes, worth checking in on when things start to feel like they don’t fit anymore. Five ways to switch it off.
Career Change
Where to Start (When You Don’t Know Where to Start)
When something stops feeling right and you can’t say why, the answer usually isn’t a quick change. It’s recalibration. Five places to start, and one small step.
Confidence & Courage
Take Control, Set Boundaries
Boundaries shape every day, whether we set them or someone else does. How to take control and set boundaries that protect what matters to you.
Career Change
My Three-Year Career Transition: How Change Actually Happened
From the outside my career change looked quick: corporate one year, coaching practice the next. The truth is a three-year timeline of experiments and small choices.
Coaching
Inside Transition Coaching: An Outline of What We Actually Do
Coaching can look like a black box from the outside. What actually happens in the transition coaching process with me: from the free first conversation to the last session.
Confidence & Courage
Confidence vs Courage: What’s the Difference, and Why Does It Matter?
Confidence is about what you know. Courage is about what you do. The critical difference between them, and why it decides whether you ever act.
Career Change
4 Steps to Prepare for a Work Move
Moving internally or externally? If you want others to back your next move, you first need to know who you are and what you want. Four steps to get ready.
Work Happiness
What No Longer Fits? The 12 Drivers of Work Satisfaction
What actually makes work feel good? Twelve drivers, and a three-score check that shows what’s changed for you over time.
Work Happiness
Meaning, motivation and your work mojo.
Can't be bothered. Working hard but feeling flat. We have all been there. What is really behind a lost work mojo, and how meaning brings it back.
Self-Reflection
Small Steps, Big Impact: Why Real Change Rarely Leaps
Big change is overwhelming when you stare at the whole of it. Why small steps are how big impact actually happens, and what a small step really looks like.
Resilience & Wellbeing
Building resilience at times of adversity.
When events knock you sideways, resilience is what steadies you. What resilience actually is, and how to build yours when everything feels uncertain.
Self-Reflection
10 Self-Reflection Questions for When You’re Feeling Stuck
Ten self-reflection questions to work out where you are and what needs to change, and what to actually do with your answers.
Coaching
OK but....What Is Coaching?
Coaching can seem like a black box of magic, so it gets overlooked as a way to create real change. I am on a mission to demystify it.
Self-Reflection
Have you kept up with your New Year's Resolutions?
Around 80% of resolutions fail by February, so if yours have slipped, you are in good company. The more useful question is why, and what to do instead.
Resilience & Wellbeing
Less Monkey, More Ninja
DO MORE! MAKE SIX FIGURES! HUSTLE! When the noise of productivity pressure gets deafening, here is a calmer, sharper way through it.
Self-Reflection
Know Your Values for Easier Decision Making
Values make decisions easier. But values change over time, and the life built on the old ones doesn’t update itself. How to find yours now, and actually use them.
Career Change
5 tips when feeling stuck in your career
Feeling stuck in your career is demotivating and frustrating. It is also information. Five things you can actually do to start getting unstuck.
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