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...
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A space to share thoughts and tips to bring you alignment and success in your life and career.
success, balance and alignment
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...
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...
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...
how are you doing at the moment with your work/life seesaw?
I see work/life balance or work/life fit as a bit of a seesaw, that ebbs and flows, or goes up and down. Despite our best efforts to put in place boundaries and stick to them both at work and at home, there are times when work needs more from us or home needs more of...
feel out of sorts? check-in with your values
Have you ever felt as though something is off-balance, misaligned, and not quite right? If you are riding a bicycle and the steering starts to pull to the left or right, you feel it. You know the bike isn’t riding straight as you possibly overcompensate when you...
what makes a leader?
Frances Fiel at Harvard Business School says, “Leadership is about making others better as a result of our presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.” As a 22-year-old I had the privilege to leave university on a Friday, take the weekend and walk into...
4 tips to embrace being perfectly imperfect
In Japanese culture there is an art of using gold to put broken pottery pieces back together. It is called Kintsugi and is built on the idea that in embracing flaws and imperfections you can create an even stronger, more beautiful piece of art. This really resonated...
get comfortable with being uncomfortable
Change is constant and when working in marketing and communications the reactive nature of the role meant I was constantly dealing with change, uncertainty and adjusting priorities often on an hourly basis. Get comfortable with being uncomfortable is a phrase I used a...
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