Career and Leadership Advice
How to Give Your Boss Honest Feedback
There is so much written about being a good leader, but before you can learn how to be a good leader you must first learn how to be a good follower. One way to be a good follower is to learn how to ‘manage up’ and give honest feedback to your boss. This is a vital skill when you have a problem at work you need to raise with your manager or boss.
The Discovery that Transformed My Leadership Coaching Process
Recently I came across something really special - an assessment and emotional intelligence development framework that has fundamentally changed my coaching practice for the better: the practice of ‘Axiogenics’ and value-genic self-leadership.
How to Become the CEO of Your Own Life
If you have been fortunate enough to work with a great CEO or senior manager, you’ll know that much of their success comes from knowing exactly when, and to whom, to delegate. Here’s how to apply that to your own life.
How Learning New Skills Can Lead to Better Enjoyment at Work
To begin making positive changes we need to improve on one common, but often underdeveloped skill, the ability to learn.
Boost Your Productivity with Timeboxing
The modern workday involves being endlessly bombarded by emails, instant messages and even impromptu video calls. Astonishingly, interruptions at work can cost you over six hours a day, with workers switching tasks once every three minutes! As it can take over 20 minutes to find your flow again, your valuable time is being wasted.
Rest: It’s Needed and It’s So Much More than Sleep
What does it mean to get some rest? This is a phrase we hear often, usually when we’re run down or overwhelmed. Instinctively, we might think about going to bed and sleeping to get rested, but it turns out that there’s way more to it than that…
You Deserve a Holiday
Whether you’ve had a productive and busy year, just managed to keep your head above water or been unfortunate enough to suffer a job loss, career stress or personal difficulties, it’s important you gift yourself a holiday after making your way in these uncertain times. A staycation at home can just as rewarding as heading away.
9 Common Misconceptions About Emotional Intelligence
Emotional intelligence is the innate ability to observe, recognize, and manage your emotions constructively. Giving you the ability to communicate effectively, handle stressful situations, prevent conflicts, conquer challenges, and empathise with others. Yet it is often misunderstood, in this blog, I unpack 9 common misconceptions about having a high EQ.
How to Handle an Unexpected Job Loss
Losing a job is often stressful, frustrating, and scary. When you lose it unexpectedly though, those feelings are more likely to triple. If it's happened to you, know that it is normal to start panicking. Here’s what you should do next.
Why Change Careers When You Can Pivot Instead?
With the job market heating up as employers struggle to attract suitable candidates, there’s never been a better time to make a career pivot.
Anticipatory Anxiety: How to Stop Worrying About the Future
When we are faced with unprecedented experiences such as the one we are living through right now, it is very easy to focus on all the negatives and tap into our inner pessimist. This mind hack is to help you bring a more balanced outlook to what the coming days and weeks might bring.
What to do When You Feel Overwhelmed
Overwhelm is when you are feeling paralysed emotionally and you are unable to cope with or handle your current circumstances. One of the ways to manage those feelings of overwhelm is to shift your focus from an internal (in your head) to an external (what’s around you) focus.
How to Practise Square Breathing
Square breathing, or box breathing as it is commonly known, is an easy and simple way to calm down your busy brain. It’s a useful technique to add to your mental toolkit and something you can do anywhere, anytime when you feel stressed.
How to Stop Anxious Thoughts
The goal of this exercise is to become more aware of when we are worrying needlessly about those things we cannot influence. When we watch the news regularly, we can easily start spiralling into anxious thoughts.
Ask Rachel: How do I stop my manager from making snarky comments towards me?
Dear anon,
Putting up with snarky remarks from anyone, never mind your boss, takes a lot of energy and enjoyment out of your day. It is a difficult situation to be in.
How to Stop Self-sabotage at Work
Do you feel sometimes that you get it your own way? Self-sabotaging behaviour is more common than you might think. Find out how you can learn to overcome it and achieve your goals.
The 5 Stages of Stress
We often don’t realise the symptoms that our stress is leading to burnout. These are the five stages you need to know.
How Can You Tell When it’s Time to Quit Your Job?
Most people have days when they feel like quitting their job. However, if it’s something you can’t stop thinking about, read on to find out how you can get past this hurdle without any regret.
Discover the Power of Active Listening
Listening is one of the most important skills you can have. How well you listen has a major impact on how well you do your job and on the quality of your relationships, both at work and in your private life.