4 Ways to Boost Productivity During These Trying Times

When it comes to career development and striving for success, it’s clear that productivity is a major factor to hinge on. If you’re not being productive, it’s hard to start climbing the ladder and tick things off the list.

That said, finding the right balance of active output can be hard during the vast shift brought on by...

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After The Career Break - What?

 

I speak to many people who are returning from a career break, whether it's been to raise a family, care for a sick relative, or take a year out to travel the world.

Some have been off for months and some for years. 

They tend to come with two common themes:

  1. Will anyone want me now? 
  2. I'll have to take a lesser role

Most people tend to...

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Time to start calling the shots in your career?

 

This is one to really stop and think about. We’d all like to think that we are in total charge of our career. But are you really

Are you proactive in making sure you areand that you continue to do jobs that you love? Or are you just going with someone else’s flow? Perhaps the company...

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How To Create Your Own Career Landscape

business career mindset May 25, 2020
 

At this time when the media is full of negativity about the economy and job prospects, it is very easy to get drawn into a state of doom and gloom.

Go ahead and do that if you want to, but if you do, you should probably stop reading now because this is about creating a positive career outlook. 

This is a time to...

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Skills You Need to Navigate Any Career Fog

business career mindset May 18, 2020

As we came into 2020 the path was clear.

We could make plans for the future and see how our careers might pan out in the future.  

Or could you?   

I only ask because a lot of people work with me because they are lost in the fog and want to find a way out. They feel stuck in some way in their...

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Get Your Career Back On Track & Build The Lifestyle You Choose

business career mindset May 11, 2020
 

Wait a minute”, I hear you say, “I haven’t got a flat tyre. And anyway, what’s that got to do with my career?

Stay with me on this one, it’s a good analogy.

Imagine your career is going well. You enjoy the work, you love the people, you like the organisation. Because of that it allows you to do what...

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8 Tips To Help You Covid Proof Your Career

business career mindset May 04, 2020
 

I don’t know what your individual situation is or how Covid has affected you, but I do know two things:

Firstly, everyone I speak to has some concern about their career either right now or for the future.

Some have lost their job or been furloughed; some are just really concerned about the long term future of their job; some are still...

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How To Stay Visible So You Don’t Get Stuck

 

I’m going to make a generalisation here.

Think about whether it might apply to you.

Many people find those type of phrases challenging because they go against everything you were taught and it plays to beliefs you may have picked up as a child along the lines of it being bad to boast and “you shouldn’t blow your own...

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Mind Yer Effin’ Language

career mindset Apr 13, 2020
 

I mean it! 

The language you use can seriously affect how you feel and the results you get.

We’ll look at the big picture, then some specific examples. before finishing with a look at the language of covid.

Here we go.

Start to pay attention to the words and phrases you use in conversation, both with others, and with...

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Playing the Covid Miracles Forward, Something We Can Control!

career mindset Apr 06, 2020

Starting with the reality, we are in a severe situation with this pandemic and it’s affecting our whole planet. Most of you reading this will, by now, know people who have contracted the virus. Some of you will already, and I suspect many more of us will, know people who die from it.

There are many, many people whose jobs and work, and as...

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