Blog

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.

The 60 minute gift you can give yourself this Christmas to improve your career

There’s now less than 5 weeks until Christmas and at the end of the year your personal learning budget vanishes as quickly as a plate of gingerbread cookies.

 

Which means it’s use it or lose it time.

 

Are any of these 5 things as jolly as Santa’s chuckle, as sweet as a Christmas pudding or as magical as flying reindeer? And all of them can improve your career and get you ahead.

Read More

Do this to really figure out how good your communication skills are

How do you know your stakeholder relationships are strong? How do you know that your colleagues value your skills? How do you know that your communication skills are supporting your career and not creating stress – for yourselves and others?

And wouldn’t it be great if there was a simple way to check this out? Well, it turns out there is!

Welcome to the Power Audit. Here’s how you do it.

Read More

How to win the gold medal of your career

You pole vault to get to the end of a packed aisle in the supermarket. Surrounded by families, rubber rings and Pina Coladas at the resort pool in Tenerife, you execute a dive Tom Daley would be proud of. On the dance floor at a family summer wedding you throw in some Simone Biles moves.

The Olympics were brilliant. Are you like me and a part of you is still grieving for the sheer excitement and those “wow, did that just happen” moments? It was amazing, wasn’t it?

But much as I loved it all, some of the sports have limited advantage in everyday life. What if there were sports that did have a huge advantage? What would the "Communication Olympics" look like?

Read More

The one question to ask to make a splash in your sparkling career

It takes 1.6 seconds and reaches a speed of 48 kmh. And it takes a huge impact on the wrists. What am I talking about?

The 10 metre Olympic dives I’ve been mesmerised by. It’s quite something to look down from that height never mind dive from it. 

And it’s something else when the diver goes to the very edge of the board, turns around, stands on their hands, goes into a full handstand, and then pushes themselves into the air, twisting and turning as they speed towards the water.

Read More

Here's how to stand out in the job market brightly and boldly

If you’re looking for a new job, or a change in career there’s one thing you can benefit from knowing really well and one thing you shouldn’t be scared to do.

So, what am I talking about?

First up, knowing your skillset well means you know yourself well, meaning that you know what you’re good at, what you enjoy doing and the benefits these skills bring to others. As for the one thing that you shouldn’t be scared of – that’s standing out.

Read More

How to supercharge your career growth and get your mojo back

So, you’re bored in your job. Or you’re feeling lost and wondering what to do about it.

And like colourful flowers in a meadow, there are lots of jobs that catch your eye. But how do you know which is the right one for you? Ever thought of career coaching?

Career coaching is getting to know yourself better so that you can explore what you’ve done in the past and the present that lights you up and use this to discover what your next role can be.

Read More