I had a heart-breaking conversation with an executive coaching client, Stephanie, several weeks ago. Now a Senior Director and one of the few women in leadership at her organisation, Stephanie ‘’admitted’ to me she was planning on retiring much earlier than anticipated. This was heart-breaking as I knew how much Stephanie loved her role. I […]
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One of the most powerful exercises we use in the Peak Resilience Accelerator is ‘time-travel.’ It’s a way to view and handle your current workplace challenges, but from a different time in your life. Clients say it’s a tool that stays with them far longer than the time we spend together. Indeed, they even come back saying it’s
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Lots of my clients are ‘Hyper-Achievers,’ according to the Saboteur Assessment those participating in my Peak Resilience Accelerator course take. We often first discover this in the free one to one Saboteur Discovery session they have with me. This means they often have certain assumptions about success that are hard to overcome. ‘Hyper-Achievers’ will hit their targets, but then set ever higher goals,
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Developing empathy for ‘annoying’ colleagues can feel like a tall order. Given our busy schedules, it’s not something most of us spend much time on. We feel ‘too busy’ to wonder, let alone enquire what is going on for that person. However, we aren’t too busy to ruminate over the difficulty they are causing us, or dream
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It’s shocking how quickly we can descend into the abyss when thinking about what we don’t know – or how we might get caught out by someone who does! These time consuming and destructive thoughts claim far too much mental bandwidth for many of my clients. This means overcoming self-doubt is key for many clients. Clients can stew
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