Category Archives: Career Coaching
Tapping the unadvertised job market
What’s that?
Do you imagine you must find a job vacancy and then try to fit it? Do you believe you’ll adapt to whatever job you get offered? Would you rather shape the job to suit you? Would you rather have a job that gave you satisfaction as well as the rewards you deserve? Then read on!
Why an unadvertised job market? An employer says…
“It’s expensive to advertise, or use an agency, and time-consuming sorting CVs and interviewing, with no guarantee of getting the right person. Wouldn’t it be lovely to have an enthusiastic and skillful person ready and available just turn Read More...
A new view on SMART goals!
Are your goals like your New Year’s resolutions?
How often do we hear people joke about setting – and then “breaking” – New Year’s resolutions? The sooner we break them the funnier it seems. Perhaps we weren’t being realistic. We may have intended our resolutions to achieve something. Or we may have dreamt of a life we feel deep down we are never going to realise. When we have experienced a few broken resolutions, we stop believing in the value of goals. We stop choosing to succeed and believing in ourselves.
There’s only one thing we choose in life
Life has just three Read More...
Crucial Conversations – Tools for talking when stakes are high
What makes a conversation crucial?
When opinions vary, stakes are high and emotions run strong. The human automatic emotional response, the book explains, paralyses our ability to converse effectively. Fight or flight, both initiated by an adrenalin rush, convert in conversational terms into the stumbling blocks of heated argument or silence and withdrawal.
The benefits
Stephen Covey, author of The 7 Read More...