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Here you’ll find inspiration and practical advice all focused on your communication skills development, managing public speaking anxiety, improving your confidence in the workplace, developing effective leadership skills, knowing how best to find a new role or career, learning how to get promoted and understanding your strengths, skills and values.

Ask AI or get a coach?

Disclaimer - you can probably guess which side of the fence I’m on with that one… but read on. Have you ever shared a career challenge like this with AI?

Dear ChatGPT, it’s me again…I’ve had a heck of a week and, yes, I know it’s only Wednesday. Can you help?  I'm struggling with three deadlines that are getting increasingly close and one of those involves that presentation to a client who I think I’ve mentioned to you before, you know the one that always looks at me like I’m a bit slow.


I’ve a presentation to deliver tomorrow afternoon to senior management that I haven’t even started to look at yet but it’s hey, only 5 minutes…. so I can probably just wing it, can’t I?

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Flash cards, coloured pens and how to pass the colossal ICF credentialing exam

This article is for you if you’re a coach looking to take The International Coaching Federation’s credentialing exam, of if you're thinking of getting a coach and want to know what it takes for a coach to get accredited by The Gold Standard of Coaching, The ICF.

Long story short, it’s slightly less than it took Frodo in “Lord of the Rings.” Slightly.

And note, this exam is the very last thing a coach does in a series of assessments before becoming a fully credentialed ICF coach.

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