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Setting up your consultancy or freelance business: How to charge for what you are worth
Setting up your consultancy practice or decided to go freelance? Congratulations! Don’t sell your time; sell your value.
How to quit procrastinating and get your real work done
Procrastination is an inherited trait. But you can beat it!
Why good managers make you take a break
D-Day Veteran Bryson William Verdun Hayes, known as Verdun, shows us how to have fun - he's the oldest British skydiver at 101 years and 38 days. He broke the record by completing a tandem skydive with three generations of his family in Devon in May 2017 in a...
One question that stops you wasting hours in meetings
Are you sick of wasting precious time in pointless, long, unplanned, badly facilitated, waffling, unstructured, distracted, ego-filled, hi-jacked, delayed and all round screamingly frustrating meetings? People constantly complain to me about the amount of time they...
Ageism: Are older candidates really discriminated against?
A fed-up 50-something Finance Director wrote to me recently, saying that she keeps getting turned down for new roles 'because of her age'. I asked her what evidence she had that her age is the reason for the rejection and if the problem possibly lay elsewhere....with...
Smack the phoney: how to beat imposter syndrome
I still doubt myself every single day. What people believe is my self-confidence is actually my reaction to fear.”—Will Smith All of us are susceptible to negative thoughts like this at some point in our careers. They are like giant banana skins waiting to trip us up....
How to retain your millennials
I listen to employers moan about their youngest workers, but what’s their side of the story? We talk a lot about leadership in organisations, but we’ve forgotten how to manage. Millennials leave organisations because (unlike their older colleagues) they don’t...
Personal Effectiveness Workshop – How to get more done in a day than you do now in a week
I’m an Executive Coach and help my clients to understand exactly what their career goals are and the steps they need to take in order to achieve them. The next stage of the process is to ensure that their most precious asset, their time, is used effectively in...
Interview Skills: Take a tip from the Movies
Interview skills: take a tip from the movies to make a powerful lasting impression The impact you make at the end of the interview is just as important as the one you make at the start. Here’s some advice on how to get it right. Savvy candidates prepare their opening...
Delegation: 4 Stages to Skill and Empower your Team
“My team would be great, if it wasn’t for the people in it’ said a frazzled manager recently, ‘why can’t they just get on with the job, like I did when I joined the business?’ Getting people's performance on track can be a huge headache. You can manage projects, but...
How to handle interviews after redundancy
Losing a job through redundancy (or a general election) is rarely a pleasant experience, no matter how welcome the pay-off. We tend to take it personally, regardless of the logic or the number of other people involved. How can they do this to ME? After all I have...
Do we all need to Man Up a bit?
Is it time to toughen up, see how far you can push your career and get the projects or promotion you really want?
Good! Here is some tough talk, aimed at women but useful to everyone trying to get ahead, whether you have two XX chromosomes or not. It is based on my own experience coaching female leaders, combined with feedback I get from head hunters trying valiantly to find women for their shortlists. The advice is deliberately black and white so I look forward to your comments.