Career and Leadership Advice
The Power of Prioritisation: Mastering Your Time and Achieving Your Goals (and Your Boss's)
In today's fast-paced world, we're constantly bombarded with tasks, deadlines, and distractions. It's easy to feel overwhelmed and scattered like we're constantly putting out fires instead of making progress on what truly matters.
5 Tips for Setting Boundaries with Your Boss (Without Getting Fired!)
Setting boundaries with your boss can feel daunting. You want to be a team player, but you also need to protect your time, energy, and mental health.
The Imbalance Within: How Overvaluing and Undervaluing Aspects of Work-Life Leads to Stress and Burnout
We all experience recurring patterns in our work and personal lives. These patterns, often driven by how we prioritise different aspects of our lives, can either contribute to our well-being or lead to significant stress and burnout.
The Myth of Work-Life Balance (and What to Strive for Instead)
We've all heard it: the elusive "work-life balance." It's dangled in front of us like a carrot, promising a harmonious blend of professional success and personal fulfilment. But the truth is, the concept of a perfectly balanced life is often a myth, a mirage shimmering in the distance. Trying to achieve it can leave us feeling more stressed and inadequate than ever.
Reflecting on Your Work-Life Integration
Many of us strive for a harmonious balance between our professional and personal lives. However, the reality often falls short of this ideal, leaving us feeling stretched thin. If you find yourself struggling to integrate these two crucial aspects of life, it may be time to reassess what balance truly means for you.
Finding Your Footing: Practical Career Coaching
Is your career stuck in neutral? You're not alone. Many face obstacles that frustrate them and are still determining their next move. These roadblocks can be tackled with the right strategies, and the secret to coming unstuck is often self-discovery
From Job Loss to Career Launch: Navigating the Emotional and Financial Storm
Job loss is a complex and multifaceted experience that extends far beyond the loss of income and job security. It's a journey marked by emotional turmoil, financial stress, and a profound sense of identity crisis.
Leadership Styles: Finding Your Path to Success
Leadership is a complex art, and there's no one-size-fits-all approach. Different situations demand different styles, and understanding these can significantly impact your effectiveness. Let's explore some common leadership styles and delve into the increasingly popular concept of servant leadership.
From Catastrophe to Calm: How to Flip Your Thinking with Slowing Down and Presence
We've all been there. You face a situation, and your mind immediately leaps to the worst possible outcome. Your heart races, your palms sweat, and you start imagining the domino effect of doom. This is catastrophising, and it's a thinking pattern that can make even minor setbacks feel overwhelming.
Mastery vs. Perfectionism: Finding the Flow in Work and Learning
We all want to excel, to be the best we can be. But when it comes to work and learning new skills, the path to excellence can be a tricky one.
Taming the Tiny Tyrant: How to Manage Upwards with a Micromanager
Micromanagers. The name itself sends shivers down the spines of even the most seasoned employees. Their constant check-ins, obsessive attention to detail, and need for control can stifle creativity, drain morale, and leave you feeling like a toddler being spoon-fed mashed peas.
Mastering the Maze: Developing Your "Manage Up and Across" Skills
Mastering the art of "managing up and across" is a crucial skill for success in today's dynamic workplaces.
The Career Plateau: Are You Really Falling Behind?
Ever looked across the desk at colleagues raking in promotions while your career feels like it's stuck in neutral? Maybe LinkedIn is overflowing with your network connections celebrating amazing career coups, leaving you wondering if you're stuck in the slow lane.
Is Your Workplace Toxic? Unveiling the Signs of a Toxic Work Environment
We all spend a significant chunk of our lives at work. Ideally, it should be a stimulating and productive space that fosters growth and collaboration. But unfortunately, that's not always the case.
How to be a good follower… when your manager makes you do stuff you don’t want to do.
Work can get tricky. Sometimes, your brilliant idea and your manager's, well, less brilliant idea, bump heads. Before you march into a heavyweight office showdown (not a great look!), here's how to navigate that disagreement like a workplace.
Did I Choose the Wrong Career?
We've all been there. Staring at the ceiling at 3 am, questioning every life choice that led us to our current job. Is this the desk we were meant to be chained to? Are these the spreadsheets our dreams were coded in?
The False Pursuit of Happiness
There’s no book or guide for happiness. And frankly we’re actually pretty bad at it. Our mind seeks the joy of happiness but it’s only a fleeting emotion and can leave us in the false pursuit of this where we can find other ways to reach contentment.
5 Positive Tools to Manage Stress
Stress spilling over in your work life? Here are 5 tools to help you manage through stressful times.
REAL Self Care - what does it mean for you?
Real self-care is more about caring for your needs than necessarily a hot bubble bath. Looking into what is fulfilling your motivations in your work life and where it all fits together. What your value is, and where do you place value on your time and energy. Finding your ultimate work-life balance.
Reframe your perspective, and let go of the negative
Learning to reframe your perspective is important to tackling those work life challenges we’re all faced with. Approaching negative situations and flipping them to opportunities eases the path to move through.