Career and Leadership Advice
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.
Emotional Intelligence - what is it?
Emotional intelligence isn’t just a fancy word it is a way of being and managing yourself and others. Empathy builds trust and positive interactions.
Rewire your brain to overcome challenges
Challenges are a part of life. How we work through and past them is up to us. Sometimes these challenges stick with us. But what if there was a way to rewire our brains to take on challenges and positively move through them?
Building Rapport: Making the right impression
Learning to meet new people in a business environment is a skill that can be learnt. Building rapport quickly is a talent that will allow you to make the most of these connections.
How much work is there really? Time for a self-audit.
How much work do you really have? Are you working as efficiently as you could - giving yourself the time to complete what your core role is can mean more time for life. A self audit of your true work habits can help move you to a better work life balance.
The role of Thank You and Recognition in the workplace
A simple thank you for a job well done or recognition for your contribution can mean the world to the recipient. But it’s not often applied enough or in the right way in the workplace. What are the benefits? And how can we do this better?
Start with yourself: Self-Leadership coaching
Leadership starts with yourself. My self-leadership course is the first step to becoming an effective leader. Looking at yourself and your thinking biases and how to coach yourself to more positive ways of reacting and interacting using the Axiogenics framework.
Positive Thinking Bias: Learning to mange your thinking
Creating open conversations in the workplace can help more than just your work. Through an open and positive mindset, we can learn to listen to others, developing better communication and relationships in the office, and beyond. But how do you nuture this in yourself?