Category: career coaching

Getting Acquainted

Benjamin Franklin said “There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond and to know oneself” – yet the key to developing your emotional and social intelligence is self-knowledge. This is the ability to understand what triggers your emotions and your subsequent reactions. It is about acknowledging your abilities, inner resources as well as your…

January 15, 2013
Keeping in Step

I am continually reminded of the value of coaching. We all have the ability to come up with the right way forward and the steps needed to get there and we can help ourselves through deep reflection, journalling and other related methods. However, to find the transformation we need in ourselves and to come up with truly creative…

November 1, 2012
5 ways to increase your levels of self-confidence

During a recent coaching conversation, I was asked to reflect on a time when my self-belief was at a high and what lead to this state of being. This got me thinking and I thought I would share what worked for me: Practice. Malcolm Gladwell, in his book “Outliers” suggests that it takes 10 000…

July 5, 2012
Finding your Way

We often hear how important it is to keep focused on our goals and to believe in our ability to achieve them. To define and refine our objectives and when we lose our way, to seek guidance in getting back on the path. That is all true, but how do we move forward if we don’t really know where…

June 28, 2012