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...
by Zena Everett | Jun 7, 2018 | Zena Everett's Blog
There’s nothing like exam time to highlight our universal tendency to procrastinate. Colouring in a revision diary instead of actually revising, or in my case when studying a mid-career masters, developing a daily desire to polish my oven before opening up my laptop....
by Zena Everett | Mar 20, 2018 | Zena Everett's Blog
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...
by Zena Everett | Feb 8, 2018 | Uncategorized, Zena Everett's Blog
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...
by Zena Everett | Jan 17, 2018 | Uncategorized, Zena Everett's Blog
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...
