People are the lifeblood of your business. The hard reality is that if you are a service business how well you perform as a business comes down to your people. What they deliver is essential but how they deliver it is utterly crucial. How they engage with one another, clients, prospects and other professional contacts really creates that point of [...]
We’re in changing times, but even if the times weren’t so dramatic you still need to make sure you have a competitive edge in your career. Having your own career competitive edge often gets lost as we get absorbed in delivering client work and wooing potential clients. It’s easy to fall behind, and then realise you haven’t focused on you [...]
Virtual meetings are beneficial, as we can often get more of a connection with people than on the phone as we can see them and their body language. Did you know that in a typical face-to-face meeting, 60-70% of the communication is through body language? However, virtual meetings can also be challenging, especially as many of us are on so [...]
Even working at home, personal impact matters for video calls. Here is some inspiration for tops and discounts on classic items. Click here to see this month's work wear inspiration. If you have missed some of my recent articles focused on helping you to progress your career, you can read them here. If you want to discuss anything, then please do get in [...]
Currently, we’re all adjusting to a new (hopefully temporary) normal and figuring out what we should and shouldn’t be focusing on in this ‘normal’. Therefore, it was interesting to hear a marketing expert I know say how during the last two recessions people put their heads down and shied away from staying in touch with clients and potential clients; they took [...]
I work with clients with many different career challenges. However, a frequent pattern is that other people are involved. In most roles, we cannot operate in isolation. This means that positive professional relationships are key to organisational and individual success, which is why it’s important to have this crucial skill of being able to navigate difficult work relationships. There are [...]
At these challenging times, maintaining and building your professional relationships is more important that ever. You have to think differently though about how to approach it, especially as the natural, more informal ways we come across people are not currently possible and every interaction needs to be more intentional. This article summarises the key points from my short video series [...]
As we’ve all read a thousand times already, we are living in ‘unprecedented times’. We don’t know how long this situation will last or how things will be when it eases. Many will have to re-think how they do their roles in the coming weeks and, sadly, many are and will have to think about how they make a living. [...]
Looking for a new role is challenging enough and even more so because of redundancy. It can be difficult to pick yourself up when you’re feeling a sense of rejection and potentially questioning your professional value. In the last recession, I was made redundant from a job that I disliked and had wanted to escape from - but that didn’t [...]
Is your appearance serving you at work? Is it right for the environment and who you are as a person? Click here to see this month's work wear inspiration. If you have missed some of my recent articles focused on helping you to progress your career, you can read them here. If you want to discuss anything, then please do get in touch.