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Five Steps to Get Your Job Promotion
Imagine this scenario You have dedicated yourself tirelessly day in and day out, ensuring you complete all your tasks promptly. You extend a helping hand to your colleagues, often without your managers even being aware of it. Your loyalty to your company remains...
How to Become an ICF Accredited Coach
In this article, we'll be explaining how to get you on your way to achieving your ICF accreditation. In today's modern world, coaching has risen to prominence as a highly sought-after skill that holds significant value for both organisations and their executives and...
How to Coach for Action and Accountability
"When the student is ready the teacher will appear. When the student is truly ready… The teacher will disappear" - Lao Tzu Part of being an effective leader is helping people identify how to move things toward completion and the actions they could take. In...
The Power of Open Curiosity in Coaching
By embracing curiosity, leaders set the stage for open and honest dialogue, where people feel comfortable sharing their ideas, concerns, and ambitions.
Ep. #75 Values: The North Star of Your Career
Making sense of work Ep. #75 Values: The North Star of Your Career Have you ever taken a moment to reflect on your career values? It's a practice that often gets overlooked amid the hustle of our daily lives. However, these values serve as the underlying motivation...
Emotional Intelligence and the Future of Work | Bailey Balfour
Emotional intelligence isn't all about being sweet and chipper, says Harvard psychologist and researcher Daniel Goleman. So what is emotional intelligence? Let's find out. Emotional Intelligence is the capacity to recognise our own feelings and those of others, and to...
Ep. #58 The Power of Mindfulness and Presence with Helen Williams
Making sense of work Ep. #58 The Power of Mindfulness and Presence with Helen Williams To truly change the culture at a workplace, we must embark on an inner journey of self-transformation, and mindfulness. As the saying goes, "If you want to change the world, first...
Ep. #73 Marking Life’s Important Milestones
Making sense of work Ep. #73 Marking Life's Important Milestones Frequently, significant events like birthdays can indeed lead us to contemplate what we haven't achieved, our past mistakes, and our regrets. And they occasionally pull us into negative thoughts. Today's...
How to Influence People at Work
How good are you at influencing others? It's essential to recognize that we influence people constantly throughout our daily lives, often without even realizing it. Whether it's convincing a two-year-old to go to bed or persuading a colleague to collaborate on a...
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