by Zena Everett | Dec 7, 2018 | Zena Everett's Blog
Escalate your career next year: no messing goal setting Sneak an hour out of your busy schedule this side of Christmas to set your goals for 2019. You’ll feel much more in control and ready for your break if you know you can hit the ground running when you...
by Zena Everett | Nov 16, 2018 | Zena Everett's Blog
Have you got five minutes? How often are you asked this each day? Once, twice, three times, more? It’s not five minutes though is it? It’s double that at least. The biggest issue is the down-time created by the interruption: how long it takes you to get back to what...
by Zena Everett | Oct 1, 2018 | Zena Everett's Blog
Being in back to back meetings is nothing to be proud of. Don’t waste your precious talent in pointless meetings. Avoid horrors like this… Sounds familiar? You have ten full-time team members. Each one attends four internal meetings a week, booked into...
by Zena Everett | Jul 17, 2018 | Uncategorized, Zena Everett's Blog
Do you already feel overwhelmed, with too much work to do and not enough time to do it in? How do you cope when you are asked to do even MORE? The first step is to weigh up the value of the extra work. Is it career-enhancing: giving you extra skills, networks or...
by Zena Everett | Jun 28, 2018 | Zena Everett's Blog
Do you remember that fairy tale we were told when we were kids, about helpful little elves that snuck into your house when everyone was asleep, did all the chores, laid the fire, made the breakfast and then flew away before anyone woke up and saw them? That’s what...
by Zena Everett | Jun 17, 2018 | Zena Everett's Blog
One of the greatest challenges when working for yourself is establishing your fee levels. A hard lesson I learnt when I moved into freelance coaching and speaking is that having a booked up diary isn’t always the smart option. It is easy to be overworked and underpaid...