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A space to share thoughts and tips to bring you alignment and success in your life and career.
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what happens when you or someone in your business makes a mistake? 6 tips on how to build psychological safety
Psychological safety is a term which you may be familiar with, or it might be completely new for you. Harvard Business School Professor Amy Edmondson created the term to explain the environment and relationships where individuals believed "that one will not be...
why might you want to work with an executive coach?
Executive coaching can help you identify your strengths and weaknesses. The process helps you create insights for you professionally, for your organisation and across your life. This means you can ensure you are working to the best of your abilities, and within an...
has your confidence taken a dip? 10 ways to build to your resilience and wellbeing
Where you have a role to lead a team, look after yourself and ensure the mental health of your family are all in the best shape, it can feel overwhelming. Especially if you have a personality type where you might have a tendency to look after everyone else first!...
why are leaders and business owners investing in coaching?
As Andrew MacAskill, one of LinkedIn’s change makers and highly successful career coaches highlights, there are some particular skills that are in high demand. These are: AgilityDistributed team leadershipCutting through complexityTalent attraction and...
10 questions to ask yourself if you’re looking to change careers or explore what’s next
In September, Google searches for “leave job” reached their highest levels for half a decade. This is not only a result of the end of furlough, but also sees many of us looking to reassess a) how our work and life fit together and b) how we can gain more meaning and...
how do you go about building your professional purpose?
You might be in a place at the moment where you are questioning your professional purpose. You’re seeking to find meaning in what you do in your day-to-day work, and are looking to re-energise your career and life as a whole. In Japan, the Japanese call...
how is empathy the key to successful leadership?
Jacinda Ardern is famously quoted as saying; “One of the criticisms I’ve faced over the years is that I’m not aggressive enough or assertive enough or maybe somehow, because I’m empathetic I’m weak. I totally rebel against that. I refuse to believe that you cannot be...
bounce back by shifting your perspective
Do any of these sentences sound familiar? “I can’t do it.” “I am not getting any better at this!” “I don’t have time.” “It’s not good enough.” “I messed up.” “I’m so behind.” I’ve been guilty of some pretty poor negative self-talk in the past! What I’ve learnt is to...
5 tips on managing life and career transitions
For me, September always feels like a month of transitions and new beginnings! My parents worked in higher education, with August/September seeing the start of the new academic year. Clearing, a time in August when universities look to fill available places with new...
do you have a work persona and a home persona?
I’m curious. Do you have a work persona and a home persona? Or are there elements of yourself you choose to dial up or dial down depending on the situation, so you flex between the two a little? Mike Robbin the author of, ‘Bring your whole self to work,’ explores what...
ten ways to build your career and life confidence
The fear of uncertainty and the unknown often puts us into a state of flight, fight, freeze or fawn response. Many of us want to be certain before we’ll take that next step in our careers, make a decision that impacts our family or move ourselves out of our comfort...
do you have your best ideas in the shower? discover the power of the ‘blue mind’!
Research by mentalhealth.org.uk in the UK and the American Psychological Association in the US show the health and mood benefits of being in nature. There are now many research studies including doctors across the globe, prescribing nature as medicine, which show the...
are you looking to tame your time and create more balance in your life and career?
Find out how understanding your time personality type can help you adjust to your natural working style and create a better workflow and bring about a change to your work/life balance