Want to progress in your career? Once you’ve set your sights on a promotion at work and believe you have a fair chance, the first thing you should do is let your line manager know. This article explains what to ask them to help you know if they see you as promotion material and how to get their full support.
You can have a better conversation by using the two fundamental building blocks of a coaching approach—questioning and listening. Improving coaching skills can help you make other people feel more heard and understood, enabling you to have more interesting conversations and more fulfilling relationships.
What should you do if you feel you’re being sidelined or overlooked at work? It’s crucial to ensure that you gather the data and the evidence and then have a conversation to see if your perception of being sidelined is the truth.
To advance in your career, you must let go of old habits and behaviours that no longer serve you. What got you here won’t get you there. Letting go is hard but necessary as we transition to new roles. This will involve trying on new identities, improvising and experimenting as we move forward in our career.
Read MoreWhether you want to find a new role or make the one you have work better for you, being fulfilled in your career means setting one or two career goals and having a plan and strategy to see it through. This article explains why having a career development plan is so important,what it should contain and how you can make sure you are keeping on track with your career planning
Read MoreSpeak to any recruitment consultant (or member of the press), and all talk is about the Great Resignation. The number of people leaving roles seems to increase daily, salaries are rocketing, and organisations are struggling to fill critical posts.
Read MoreOver the years, I was often asked why I stayed in the same place so long - sometimes with horror, sometimes admirably. But the answer to me was clear - whenever I was bored or ready to move on, I managed to find a new role in the same organisation that interested me enough to stay.
Read More"5 tips for living your best life”, “lean in”, “self-improvement made easy”. The internet is full of tips, memes and headlines on being your best self - quite often aimed at women. But what if we don’t want to be on our A-game every day of the week? What if we are tired of putting 100% into everything, of striving, of feeling inadequate every time we see the latest 28-year-old entrepreneur profiled in HBR?
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