Emotional intelligence (EQ), a term often banded about on LinkedIn and in articles. What is it? Why emotional intelligence matters at work: it is the ability to understand and control your own emotions and to deal with those of others. In a nutshell, it is about our human side – how we relate to other people. Many of the clients [...]
It is almost a year now since the majority of professional people have been working at home. Maybe you feel you have this nailed, many haven’t! There has been lots of talk of how to make sure that team working in this remote world is effective. After a year of working with senior leaders who have been trying to do [...]
Is your LinkedIn profile looking neglected or worse still, non-existent? When was the last time you did a LinkedIn profile update? I have found that there are several reasons that people don’t do this: Not into social media/want to maintain privacy. Don’t see it as important. Time. To tackle the first reason, it is true that by [...]
I am delighted to share the Calico press release below, announcing that Inside Out Image has joined Calico as an Associate - helping to provide relevant knowledge and insight to the legal sector. NEW MEMBER NEWS In keeping with the mood elsewhere Calico Legal Solutions Group is looking forward to a brighter year, with new members, a fresh editorial focus, and [...]
During a recent webinar that I hosted 33% of attendees said that they didn’t proactively work on their career because either they didn’t know where to start or it was too hard to get the help they need. Does this resonate? Proactively managing your career doesn’t have to be difficult or complicated. I believe that there three important guiding principles to manage [...]
Last month I ran a webinar on proactive Career Management, I couldn’t believe how quickly the places were booked, I increased them three times and it was still sold out. This clearly showed me that individuals realise how important this topic is. During the webinar, I asked, “Who regularly makes time to work on their career?” Interestingly, only 13% said [...]
Two things in life are certain – death and taxes. Another certainty is that in a service business, if your people don’t have good relationship building skills everything will suffer, resulting in poorer performance. It is easy to overlook the development of these skills in your people and focus only on what they know and how technically good they are. [...]
It wouldn’t be the start of the year without talk of goals and resolutions. Many of these relate to our physical selves – diets, dry January, exercise plans…Potentially some people set some career goals but doing this as a one off with no supporting plan to reach them is unlikely to achieve anything, much like the physical fitness goals. You can read the [...]
The start of the year and the usual talk of goals and planning for the year ahead although this year of course this is in the context of the current global pandemic… At this time of year, many goals relate to health and fitness. Talk of ‘Dry January’, Veganuary and getting fit although this year the latter will need to [...]
We’re all busy; it’s hard to find enough hours in the day to get the things we need to done. It’s easy for weeks, if not months to pass without giving thought to what we need to focus on career wise. However, like most things in life, continuously managing your career is essential. A core part of active career management is [...]