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An Intelligent Career Model for managing your career in Covid times #careers Jan 22, 2021

A new model for managing careers

Developed in conjunction with leading online learning platform Kajabi we have built the closest thing to coaching...

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Why right now we need leaders who can tell the truth Jan 21, 2021

It’s becoming very clear now that there is no “new normal” just around the corner.  The situation we are in now is the...

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Forget goals, forget passion, get a system in place for running your career Jan 14, 2021

Last week we introduced our new Career Discoveries online portal for self-managing your career as we emerge from the shadows of Covid19. This week...

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Have you got G.R.I.T? leadership Jan 11, 2021

Life in 2021 offers many opportunities to embrace change and lead in the manner that we want to; to become the leader we want to. But alongside...

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Take responsibility for your own career. Career Discoveries - a virtual, full life-cycle career coaching resource.    #careers Jan 07, 2021

Pain is being felt on the ground right now as the lagged effect of a year of the virus kicks in. In the UK alone redundancies hit a record 370,000...

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Why Bullying is a Board Issue leadership performance Dec 03, 2020

When people talk about bullying, they tend to see it from the point of view of the individual.

Bullying for individuals is appalling.  It...

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Bullies, Risk-takers and Disruptors: Can you tell the difference? performance Nov 26, 2020

One of my co-founders at Defy Expectations, Pat Chapman-Pincher, has written powerfully and succinctly in the last fortnight about bullying and...

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Welcome the disruptors – but don’t let them near the controls consult leadership Nov 19, 2020

Apparently one of Dominic Cummings favourite gestures on leaving a meeting was to pull the pin out of an imaginary grenade and throw it over his...

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Welcome to the unsung heroes leadership Nov 12, 2020

It’s great news that we have the first of the promising vaccines. The scientists at BioNTech-Pfizer that developed it, and all of the...

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Leaders are not just for Christmas – or for a crisis leadership Nov 06, 2020

Yes, it’s a really cute photo but it can be a rough life being a puppy.  Lockdown has led to lots of them being bred, sold at a high...

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Getting the couch out of coaching performance Oct 29, 2020

We are not sure exactly when psychology and psychotherapy started to dominate coaching, but they have been prevalent in mainstream approaches since...

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Because you’re not worth it Oct 22, 2020

“Oh” said the head of HR “I can only spend that sort of money on the senior team.”

It’s an interesting fact that the...

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