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Never waste a day… A contact of mine has the tagline “Dead fish go with the flow” on his WhatsApp profile. The line got me thinking about life and how easy it is to drift from one day to the next without steering yours (life) in any direction. Have you ever wasted a day (or longer) […]
Outcome change While working with clients, I regularly hear them list things they would like to change in their lives. These changes can relate to challenges in their personal or professional lives. Usually, the focus of these initial conversations is on the outcomes they want. This level of change is primarily concerned with changing their […]
Pretending to listen…. You are at a lunch with a colleague and casually ask what kind of weekend they had. While half listening, you fail to notice they have just shared a serious health issue which came to light, and they have asked you a question in relation to it. The silence catches you off […]
Why build your resilience skills… Prior to the arrival of the pandemic, the subject of stress in the workplace and building resilience skills to address it, were regular issues discussed in coaching meetings with clients. Globally, people now work in constantly connected, always-on, highly demanding work cultures where stress and the risk of burnout are […]
The opportunity to change…. The demand for change in business practice has never been greater than it is today. The global pandemic imposed change on many businesses overnight. It has redefined the future relationships between organisations and employees. This paced transition, has seen people reaching into reserves of previously untapped potential they sometimes didn’t […]
“So often times it happens, that we live our lives in chains, And we never even know we hold the keys” – The Eagles, Already Gone, 1974 While working with clients in the coaching world, people often admit to being “stuck in a rut”. They can feel trapped, sometimes feel uncomfortable or […]
Review your daily actions…. In all areas of our lives, the results we achieve, stem from the actions we take on a day to day basis. It’s a fundamental principle of physics that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Without actions we can achieve nothing. Therefore the first place to review, […]
Yesterday in Ireland we entered the second Covid-19 lockdown which is scheduled to last 6 weeks. Some of my clients contacted me looking for suggestions to help them, their teams or businesses to deal with this lockdown. They feel frustrated, scared, uncertain and simply wanted to discuss how they can coach themselves, or their teams, […]
Over the years, working in the area of leadership and executive coaching, one topic that regularly presents, is the area of self-care. Many of the people with whom I’ve worked acknowledged that they are too busy with work to find any time for themselves. They neglected their health, relationships got minimum investment, children, where they […]
Everyday many of us struggle to get through the “to do” list. We are too busy doing all the “stuff” that gets in the way. Many of us even struggle to get that pet project started. We tell ourselves we need more information or everything needs to be perfect before we can dare ourselves to […]