I’ve had a couple of coaching conversations in the last month where the issue of setting and maintaining boundaries has come up. Establishing and then maintaining boundaries is essential as it helps others to understand how we want to work and be with people and how we want others to treat us. “Boundaries” can include physical boundaries (invasions of personal space), mental (being overloaded with work), emotional (intrusive questions about our personal lives), or to do with values and beliefs (feeling pressured to drink at work due to religious reasons).
Read MoreWay before the pandemic, business journals and websites were full of articles warning that the jobs that we are all doing would no longer exist in 2, 5 or 10 years time. In the low-paid end of the service sector automation would replace most jobs, whereas at the more professional end, traditional professions such as accountancy and engineering would see their work dramatically altered by AI - rendering parts of their role obsolete.
Read MoreAfter coaching informally for many years, I went on a formal coaching course last year to gain a recognised qualification - the AoEC Practitioner Diploma. My background is in helping clients improve the capability of their teams, predominantly through more formal face to face online training.
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