Career and Leadership Advice
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?
Negative Thinking Bias: Can you change the way you think?
Our subconscious is a powerful tool. When given the wrong habits it can embed a negative thinking bias. But it doesn’t mean that nothing can be done. Through Self Leadership coaching you can re-train your mind and subconscious to a positive way of thinking.
Purpose and Value: Your work life balance
How do you define what is important in your life? Where does work fit? With the shift in working life, the expectations of employees have shifted also. Needing a fancy office and coffee machine no longer have the same zing as before. Now it’s space to explore other parts of our lives.
Move yourself Happy!
Exercise and movement can do so much more than get you fitter. In these times of work-life overlapping, a walk around the block can help fight stress, and depression and may be put work and life into perspective.
The trouble with looking for your next big career move based on finding your passion
Asking our work life to fulfill our joy and passion can be asking it just a little too much. Here we talk about the role of your job and your passion.
How to deal with bullies in the workplace
Techniques to manage bully bosses, rude clients, difficult customers.
Your Definitive Guide to Making a Career Move
Making a successful career move can be both exciting and fraught with uncertainty. This step-by-step guide can help you plan how to make your next career transition go as smooth as possible.
How to Love Your Job and Working Life
Do what you love and the rest will fall in place? Absolutely. But how do you get to a place of loving what you do for a living? read on to find out how it is possible to love your working life.
Leadership Coaching in Practice
Curious about what leadership coaching is really like? Read Fiona’s story which recounts her personal experience of coaching with me, from redundancy and working from home to rejoining the workforce.
How to Maintain Focus in Uncertain Times
With all the confusion taking place in the world around us, you may find your motivation wavering. This quick read explores how to regain your focus when the world seems to be conspiring against you!
7 Golden Rules for Increasing Your Productivity
If you feel as if you’re swamped by work or that you never seem to achieve anything (no matter how hard you work), this article is for you!
How to Enjoy Working from Home
Working from home or hybrid work not shaping up how you thought it would? Don’t quit before you’ve read my advice on how you can have the best of both worlds. I’ve made it work for me and so can you!
My road to becoming a career coach
I didn’t set out to become a career coach but “the course of true love never did run smooth” to quote Shakespeare. Read on to find out how discovering my true passion in life has led to me helping others find theirs.
Choosing my career path (then changing careers time and again)
My career has been defined by change which helped me find my calling in life as a work-life coach. Read on if you’re contemplating making a change and need a little inspiration.