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In this section you will find helpful videos and articles: from how to ace a job interview, to how to listen to feedback.
I want a new job, but don’t want to make the wrong move
As the job market continues to change and increasingly becomes a ‘buyers' market’ for candidates, I’m seeing clients get more aware of what they want from a role. Or to be more precise, what they don’t want.
They might know their current job is no longer serving them, and want out, but they also want to avoid just jumping to the next thing and finding it's not a great deal better or different. They want to narrow the odds in their favour and become more focused about what sort of role they want.
Things I never knew I needed to know about work
I was having a clear out recently and came across some old paperwork from one of my first jobs. It got me thinking about how I was in those jobs. There was some good, some bad but it got me wondering how things might have been if I knew then what I know now.
Managers: it’s about helping others to be their best
I’m a huge football fan and I’m fascinated with the managers. I love seeing their different approaches; from the way they talk to the media to the stories players tell about how their manager interact with them.
Whatever approach they take, while their tactics and understanding of football is important, success is increasingly about how well they can manage, communicate and motivate the players. Ultimately, it's about how they bring out their best in their people.
How do you build good habits?
Our lives are filled with habits. Good and bad; from biting our nails to doing yoga at 6am before work.
They can bring out our best or worst and can help us move forward or hold us back.
So, how do we build positive habits. The kinds of rituals that will help us to learn, get fitter or get closer to that dream career or job. Once we’ve identified them, how do we make them stick?
What’s your story? And how might it be holding you back?
Stories are compelling. Whether it's one on Netflix or involving a colleague at work, we love them.
Stories are great and it's what makes the world colourful, but we need to be aware that we also have our own stories; the stories we tell ourselves, about ourselves.
We’ve built these stories up in our own heads over the years based on things that have happened in our lives; the things that went well, went badly and importantly how we reacted to them. Our story tells what we think we’re good and bad at.
Have I always been confident? No, so what changed?
When I tell people that I’m a coach and that my speciality is helping people be more confident, they think I’m all firm handshakes and a big booming voice. Anyone who knows me, appreciates that I’m not.
Someone recently asked me at a seminar I was delivering if I had always been confident. Had I always been able to look comfortable when delivering a talk and able to maintain good eye contact? No. Definitely not.