Coaching
3 Words to Describe Coaching with Me – Confidence, Clarity & Courage
When clients describe coaching with me, three words keep coming back: confidence, clarity and courage. Here is 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
SPOTLIGHT: I’ve Lost My Spark — How Do I Get My Career Energy Back?
Senior leaders and high performers lose their spark too. Where low motivation at work really comes from, and how to get your career energy back.
Coaching
SPOTLIGHT SERIES: Real Stories, Real Shifts: What Brings People to Career Coaching
I have coached hundreds of people through career questions, and clear patterns emerge in what brings them. Real stories, and the shifts that followed.
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
New Year, New Career? The Fear Inventory Exercise
Thinking 'new year, new career' but the fears keep winning? The Fear Inventory: name every fear, then abandon it, reframe it, or act on it.
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
Rather a Crossroads than a Closed Road
'I'm at a crossroads.' I hear it a lot, usually with confusion and a sense of being lost. But a crossroads beats a closed road: it means you have options.
Career Change
Are You Feeling Trapped by Your Job?
A frustrating job, a company you have gone cold on, a boss you clash with. When work feels like a trap, the way out starts smaller than you think.
Confidence & Courage
Reframe 2 Key Barriers to Take Action for Big Change
So much stuckness comes from two assumptions: 'it should look like this' and 'I can't'. Reframe those two barriers and big change starts to move.
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
Autopilot saves us energy, but live there too long and whole seasons drift by. Five ways to switch it off and choose your direction consciously.
Career Change
Where to Start (when you don’t know where to start)
When work suddenly stops feeling right, it can catch you off guard with no clarity about what is off. Where to start when you do not know where to start.
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 3 years to Work Happiness
People often ask how I made my own career change, and it can look quick and easy from the outside. The truth: it took three years. Here is the honest story.
Coaching
What Happens in a Coaching Session (and chemistry call)
Coaching is a collaboration: it works when both sides know their part. What actually happens in a session, and in the chemistry call before it.
Confidence & Courage
Confidence and Courage: A Critical Distinction for Action
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
12 key drivers of happiness at work.
What actually makes work feel good? The twelve drivers that underpin happiness at work, and how to spot which ones matter most to you.
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
Big change is overwhelming when you stare at the whole of it. The quiet power of small steps, and why they are how every big impact actually happens.
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 questions for self reflection when you're feeling stuck.
Reflection can be incredibly powerful. Ten honest questions to help you work out where you are and what needs to change, and what to 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.
Big decisions, difficult decisions, complicated decisions. Knowing your values is what makes them easier. How to find yours, and 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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