by Zena Everett | Dec 16, 2020 | Zena Everett's Blog
As Christmas is the busiest time of year for a vicar, new year is the busiest time for a coach like me. It’s peak annual kick-off, objective-setting, lessons learnt, where are we going, what do we want, reboot, state of the nation...
by Zena Everett | Nov 9, 2020 | Zena Everett's Blog
Last week’s dramatic election shenanigans reminded me of a tool frequently used in psychological coaching to explain conflict and power plays. The Karpman Drama Triangle maps out destructive relationships using three roles: the Victim (‘one down’ on the...
by Zena Everett | Oct 5, 2020 | Zena Everett's Blog
Coach yourself out of the overwhelm with just one question. Clients are telling me that they feel particularly overwhelmed and weighed down at the moment. ‘Struggling to see the wood for the trees’ is coming up a lot in my sessions. I don’t want to add to the...
by Zena Everett | Sep 1, 2020 | Zena Everett's Blog
As schools reopen today, the UK government has launched a media campaign encouraging us to go back to the office. The CBI have warned of our city centres becoming ghost towns if people continue to stay away: save Pret etc. Yet many people are well in the...
by Zena Everett | Aug 9, 2020 | Zena Everett's Blog
The choice of how and when to return to the office after lockdown will be giving some people sleepless nights right now. Home working has been a welcome respite from anxiety. It’s not the commute, the virus or their colleagues...
by Zena Everett | Jul 7, 2020 | Zena Everett's Blog
The way we use emails is chocking our productivity. Email has become an invasive intrusion, binding us to our screens: the japanese knotweed of work. Researchers say we spend about 28 percent of our time actively managing email, that’s over a quarter of...