Building Rapport: Making the right impression
Learning to meet new people in a business environment is a skill that can be learnt. Building rapport quickly is a talent that will allow you to make the most of these connections.
The trouble with looking for your next big career move based on finding your passion
Asking our work life to fulfill our joy and passion can be asking it just a little too much. Here we talk about the role of your job and your passion.
Your Definitive Guide to Making a Career Move
Making a successful career move can be both exciting and fraught with uncertainty. This step-by-step guide can help you plan how to make your next career transition go as smooth as possible.
How to Maintain Focus in Uncertain Times
With all the confusion taking place in the world around us, you may find your motivation wavering. This quick read explores how to regain your focus when the world seems to be conspiring against you!
7 Golden Rules for Increasing Your Productivity
If you feel as if you’re swamped by work or that you never seem to achieve anything (no matter how hard you work), this article is for you!
How to Enjoy Working from Home
Working from home or hybrid work not shaping up how you thought it would? Don’t quit before you’ve read my advice on how you can have the best of both worlds. I’ve made it work for me and so can you!
My road to becoming a career coach
I didn’t set out to become a career coach but “the course of true love never did run smooth” to quote Shakespeare. Read on to find out how discovering my true passion in life has led to me helping others find theirs.
How to be Successful on Your Own Terms
From time to time, we all feel as if we haven’t achieved what we should have. I unpack what can make as feel this way and how to get back on track.
Changing Careers (when you have no experience or idea what to do)
Changing careers is difficult. It’s even harder when you have no idea what career you want to switch to or have little to no experience in that field. Here I explore how to take a strategic approach to change your career.
How to Find a Job You Love
The job market is hot at the moment. It's a good time to be looking for a new job, yet so many applicants are approaching the process in the wrong way.
How to Cope with Workplace Bullies, Difficult Customers and Challenging Bosses
One of the most distressing situations we encounter at work is the feeling of being bullied. It can leave us feeling demoralised, alienated, and confused. All of this can make it exceedingly tricky to decide what to do. We can end up in our own heads, questioning every action, word or look from the bully (or bullies) we’re facing.
How to Negotiate a Better Salary Offer
You’ve breezed through your interview, taken each curveball question in your stride. Then you’re asked, “What are your salary expectations?” And you freeze up, stumbling through your answer.
Making a Career Change in Your 50s
Many reasons lead people to consider making a career change in their 50s and later life. Perhaps you have grown bored in your current role and no longer find the work challenging. Maybe you feel that fewer opportunities are available to you or that you have already peaked. Perhaps you are considering transitioning to semi-retirement?
How to Give Your Boss Honest Feedback
There is so much written about being a good leader, but before you can learn how to be a good leader you must first learn how to be a good follower. One way to be a good follower is to learn how to ‘manage up’ and give honest feedback to your boss. This is a vital skill when you have a problem at work you need to raise with your manager or boss.
How Learning New Skills Can Lead to Better Enjoyment at Work
To begin making positive changes we need to improve on one common, but often underdeveloped skill, the ability to learn.
Boost Your Productivity with Timeboxing
The modern workday involves being endlessly bombarded by emails, instant messages and even impromptu video calls. Astonishingly, interruptions at work can cost you over six hours a day, with workers switching tasks once every three minutes! As it can take over 20 minutes to find your flow again, your valuable time is being wasted.
How to Handle an Unexpected Job Loss
Losing a job is often stressful, frustrating, and scary. When you lose it unexpectedly though, those feelings are more likely to triple. If it's happened to you, know that it is normal to start panicking. Here’s what you should do next.
Why Change Careers When You Can Pivot Instead?
With the job market heating up as employers struggle to attract suitable candidates, there’s never been a better time to make a career pivot.
Ask Rachel: How do I stop my manager from making snarky comments towards me?
Dear anon,
Putting up with snarky remarks from anyone, never mind your boss, takes a lot of energy and enjoyment out of your day. It is a difficult situation to be in.
How Can You Tell When it’s Time to Quit Your Job?
Most people have days when they feel like quitting their job. However, if it’s something you can’t stop thinking about, read on to find out how you can get past this hurdle without any regret.