Posts tagged Career Coaching
Perform Better By Being A Strategic All Rounder
Apr 17th
Being a technical expert in your field will have got you to a certain level in your business or career, however the more successful you are the more it is necessary to demonstrate a wider portfolio of skills. Often you may find you are doing less of the job you are a technical expert in,…
Do This to Take Control of Your Career
May 24th
It’s quite common practice for jobs to be described in terms of the knowledge, skills and attitudes require to do them. It is often shortened to KSA. Although these days we don’t like the word “attitudes” because it sounds subjective. So I tend to use Values / Company Culture. Good companies will tend to…
Questions to ask a coach before you engage with them
Sep 30th
You have decided to engage with a coach but how do you go about choosing a coach. There are lots of coaches out there and there are poor coaches and good ones. Coaching is unregulated so anyone can call themselves a coach so how do you find a GOOD coach? Here are some questions to…
5 things that make a coach a GOOD one
Sep 30th
Getting a GOOD coach is actually a lottery. There are so many coaches out there….some would say, “too many” and some would say, “what do they do?”. However we are hearing more and more that coaching is a good thing. So how do you know who is a GOOD coach? Here’s my criteria for choosing…
10 benefits a GOOD coach can offer you?
Sep 30th
A good coach can help to 1. Raise self-awareness 2. Increase your awareness of others 3. Improve understanding of your impact on others 4. Challenge you to new ways of thinking 5. Problem solving to create change 6. Motivate you 7. Build Confidence / empowerment 8. Clarify purpose / goals 9. Hold you accountable 10.…
Dream Big, Think Smart, Start Small
Sep 22nd
Key Lessons Don’t spend money you haven’t got Invest extra time to find out more before spending money Dream big, think smart, start small I often coach people who want to start a business or have just taken the plunge. Starting with big dreams and then realising that business is not as easy as it…
Feedback Rules Doesn’t It?
Sep 22nd
You want feedback, you ask for it but little comes back? Or what comes back is platitudes or only from the most verbal people. So how do you get real useful feedback from all sorts of people? We all know that feedback can be useful. Even if you hear stuff you don’t want to you…
Lack of self-awareness or too much self-doubt?
Jul 24th
I find coaching easy and natural. And over the last 20 years I’ve coached hundreds of people and my belief is that coaching people is essentially around either a lack of self-awareness or too much self-doubt, and sometimes both. Think about it…. • The person who is highly qualified suddenly finds that another person…
England Winning Penalties in the World Cup. This is Why Coaching Matters.
Jul 5th
What’s the point of coaching? I don’t get what coaching is about. How can you coach me in my business when you haven’t run a multi-million pound business yourself? Why does coaching matter? Being in the middle of the World Cup and the beginning of Wimbledon has just highlighted how crucial coaching is. Before…
Are you an “All-Rounder” Strategic Operator?
Jun 30th
Being a technical expert in your field will have got you to a certain level in your business or career, however the more successful you are the more it is necessary to demonstrate a wider portfolio of skills. Often you may find you are doing less of the job you are a technical expert in,…