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Curation
The selection and care of objects. The selection of documents, music, or other content to be included in a collection. How do you curate...
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Feb 151 min read


Resolutions
Without resolution - there is no coordinated or coherent action. Without resolution, you will still get results, but they'll be...
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Jan 121 min read


Work to your Goals not Anyone Else's
Be yourself, advised Oscar Wilde, everyone else is already taken  The same should apply to what we do in life. If there is an authentic...
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Dec 4, 20242 min read


How can Professional Development Lead you to your Purpose?
In the hustle and bustle of our daily professional lives, it's easy to get caught up in the routine of tasks and deadlines. However, have...
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Oct 4, 20242 min read


Career Thinking
Agility in how you plan for career moves and flexibility in how you react to unexpected career events are key to maintaining momentum and...
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Sep 3, 20242 min read


Optimism in Hard Times
I find myself drawn to thinking about optimism recently. I suspect the reflection is a reaction to the many macro disasters that are...
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Jul 4, 20242 min read


The Weightlifting Power of Clarity
Reflecting on a coaching conversation we’d had, a client told me recently they had felt a weight had lifted. They had gained real clarity...
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Jun 7, 20241 min read


Why Doing isn’t Leading
If you are in a senior or leadership role, you started a journey when you got your first job. Back then, you were selected based on...
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May 3, 20242 min read


Your Goals v Other People’s Goals
Some people are naturally goal oriented and others less so. It all depends on how your brain prefers to organise you and the activities...
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Apr 8, 20242 min read


What do you Want?
This can be a great question. It comes up often in coaching conversations. After talking about a situation with all its complexities,...
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Mar 11, 20242 min read


How to Create Momentum for the New Year
If it seems like we get no rest around year's end, it's because we don't. When was the last time you had a sense of down time or head...
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Feb 3, 20242 min read


How to be Optimistic
The essence of optimism is not about whether your general outlook on life is that of an optimist or a pessimist. Both pessimistic and...
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Dec 7, 20232 min read


So, what can a career coach do for you?
Agility in how you plan for career moves and flexibility in how you react to unexpected career events are key to maintaining momentum and...
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Nov 6, 20232 min read


The Main Problem with Internal Interviews
There are plenty of potential problems with internal job processes. You can encounter everything from bias in the job specification or...
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Oct 9, 20233 min read


The Best Question you can Ask Yourself?
Personally and professionally we live in a sea of goals, targets, priorities, stakeholders, plans, execution strategies, demands,...
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Sep 10, 20232 min read


Time Off
Around this time of year, we get a run of long weekends and every year, I get a sense of expansion and release as the classic five day...
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Jun 8, 20232 min read


How to Change
Change is hard, our brains are wired to do the same thing over and over again. Old habits stick and new habits are hard to form. All true...
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May 8, 20231 min read


Coach or Critic?
Often when we talk to ourselves, we can go into a negative zone fairly quickly. Sometimes this is necessary and we all need a good...
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Apr 8, 20231 min read


When is the Right Time to Leave?
Knowing the right time to leave is very hard to get right. There are also many ways of knowing as some recent high profile resignation...
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Mar 6, 20232 min read


Q: If you could do one thing this year that would save you time and make your team feel better?
A: Have Better Meetings There is plenty of research showing the huge number of hours each week spent in meetings - in person...
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Feb 9, 20233 min read
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