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Are you looking to have a high-performing team with well-defined behaviours? No matter what size your team is, the more they understand each other’s skills, experience, and values, and ways they like to work, the better they function and deliver the required results. When I was a team member, I liked to feel valued, have my opinion asked & respected, given an opportunity to learn from others and share my...

There are times when we struggle to perform a role at work, or have a challenging manager, or difficult team member. This can lead to a lack of motivation, feeling demoralised, poor performance, not feeling “one of the team”. A coach will dedicate time to listen to you, hear what you are saying, and understand more about what is happening for you. This is your time to talk about what is...

I have found that the work place has turned into a place of “Death by Email, Yammer, Teams Chats” (other formats are available). Constant barrage of requests, questions, asks for help. Due to technology, we are expected to be able to respond immediately to everything, at any time, from anywhere. STOP – this is not sustainable. Take a deep breath. You are not a robot! I used to work in...

You’re a manager of a team. One person keeps missing deadlines and the quality of their work is poor. You don’t think you can trust them to perform the role. Unfortunately, sometimes as managers, we come across this situation. The trick is to understand why the person is not performing as required and identify the relevant actions to be taken. What is important is not to judge a person instead to...

Throughout my working life in the corporate world, I performed a range of tasks, some of which I did well, and some not so well. This did not mean I failed at my job; it meant I was struggling with that particular task. All too often we think that, because we did not do a task well, we are not good at our jobs. There are a range of reasons...

How a coach can help you identify your skills, values, achievement I had a client who said to me she had no idea that she could do what she could do. And yet I heard her say she was doing it when we were chatting about her job and what she did. So often we are too close to what we are doing and saying that we miss the little things...

Change happens at variable speeds – like a penguin Have you heard of the penguin method? I learnt about the penguin method when I started back into running after knee surgery. I was advised to train like a penguin i.e. walk for 10 minutes then run for 2 minutes. It is a bit like doing interval training go fast, go slow, go fast, go slow or go up a hill...

Skills are transferable We all have transferable skills. I love it when a project manager tells me they cannot do the project finances. I ask, are you going on holiday this year? How much can you spend? How much is it going to cost you? How much spending money are you taking? How will you keep track of your spend? How much surplus cash are you taking in case of an...

The value of having a coach during and after being outplaced It is that time of the year when there are a lot of conversations, blogs, posts referring to the New Year, New Year’s Resolutions, New You. For many years I used to set new year resolutions and be determine to keep to them. Let’s be honest they were not proper goals. They did not have an end date, they were...