A little while ago, I blogged about Rick Hanson’s Red Brain, Green Brain model and how it can help us to understand mental wellbeing and regulation. I suggested that this model is particularly helpful in understanding why so many people’s mental health is suffering during the pandemic. Briefly, Hanson suggests that it is helpful to …
Change
For many of us, our business is intrinsically tied to a passion of ours; for example, animal lovers who open a rescue centre, or become veterinarians. But even if we’re lucky enough to have built a career in a field that we are truly passionate about, it never encompasses our complete story. Who we are …
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Coaching can be an incredibly fruitful endeavour. One recent experience has left me with renewed enthusiasm for art of coaching a group to their full potential, even through critical times. Overworked and understaffed I was brought into a beleaguered department with an enormous, overarching mandate that affects every other department in its organization. The department …
Recently, my adult son and I experienced some tension in our relationship over decisions he was making that directly affected me. I have to say that we butted heads for some time until I began to think more deeply about my role the dynamic we where creating. Like most parents, I still worry about my …
If, like me, you have been in the workplace for a while, there may have been times in your career when you hit the snooze button for weeks, months, or even years. Every now and then you get a wake-up call—a toxic workplace, a stultifying to-do list, or just the feeling that you’re not living …
It shouldn’t be surprising that people who hire career coaches are struggling in theirs. Sometimes they are looking for some fine-tuning, but the majority are seeking advice on how to change their careers, and their lives, because things just aren’t working. Of course, everyone’s situation is unique, but over the years of coaching professionals I …
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A Living Nightmare A client was commenting on the fact that his career was turning around and that every person he was now meeting and every situation he encountered was interesting and positive. He was surprised because this was coming on the heels of the lowest point in his corporate career where every move he …
You could have heard a pin drop… The silence in the boardroom was deafening. Sam, the Project Lead, had just been stopped in mid-sentence by the VP impatiently waving her hand. Sam had started to tell a story to position the efforts being made regarding the CHANGE in his organization. Storytelling was his best attempt …