What you can achieve by coaching Part I

What You Can Achieve Through Coaching  Part I

By improving your self awareness and understanding what you want from your career, the results for you, your life as a whole and your organisation are improved.

I work with you providing an informed and trusted sounding board to:

● Clarify your thinking, aspirations and motivations
● Give honest and constructive feedback
● Identify stretching and achievable goals which build on your strengths
● Develop agreed action plans that deliver tangible results for you and your career.

EXAMPLES:

I have worked in public and private sector giving successful mentoring and career coaching:

1. Identified new careers based on client’s strengths, in line with their goals, and the organisation’s values.

2. Refocused clients whilst in significant transitional periods of their lives such as maternity leave, international moves and retirement.

3. Successfully prepared clients for internal and external Assessment Centres from Middle Manager to Executive Director level roles.

4. Developed CV writing skills. Identified client’s universal strengths and experiences for different sectors as well as industry specific skills.

5. Stunning success rates in preparing clients for interviews using my personalised method. Every client is well prepared, upbeat and confident for that big job interview.

Body and Voice Preparations for Your Interview

Body and Voice Preparations for Interviews.

This is the five minute warm up for your voice and your body before an interview. It should settle your mind, and warm you up so you can make an instant impression on the interviewer.

You should be in a private place. You might look a little odd doing this in the Reception area!

Word of Warning: Be gentle with yourself - don't push yourself beyond your capabilities. 

Stretching:

1. Open up your Chest and Back

• Stand with your feet hip width apart.
• Link your hands behind your back.
• Breathe in and out for a few breaths with your arms behind you.
• Then lean forwards from your hips, keeping your knees bent. 
• Rest in this position for a few breaths.
• Drops your arms and slowly roll up from this position.

2. Stretching your Sides

• Stand with your feet hip width apart.
• Stretch your left arm up to reach the sky, slightly leaning towards the right.
• Breath in and out slowly.
• Repeat on the right side.

3. Spinal Rolls

• Stand with your feet hip width a part.
• Breathe in and out, then roll your spine downwards slowly so you touch your toes. 
• Try to go one vertebra at a time.
• Let your head and arms hang down and their weight bring you down.
• Take a deep breath in, and roll upwards one vertebra at a time. 
• Repeat a couple of times.

Voice Warm Up:

1. Breathing

• Breathe in from the very bottom of your lungs - fill the whole of your lung capacity. 
• Breathe in for the count of 4 and breathe out for the count of 6.

2. Articulation Exercise - this should warm up your mouth and make your diction clearer.

• Pick a phrase - maybe "I'm going to be brilliant".
• Say it out loud 10 times.
• Now stick your tongue out - all the way out!
• Repeat your phrase 10 times with your tongue sticking out.
• Try your phrase again with your tongue in. 

Creating an International Business

How to create an International Business


I post this with tears of frustration pouring down my face.

How do I make this business work in Germany? How do I set it up properly? 

German bureaucracy is famous. German efficiency is famous. German forthright views and no nonsense attitude is famous. Right?

I have forms in German that must be filled in in german. I have translated them. I have decided I have  translated them incorrectly. 

The form wants my bank account details. But they CAN'T want my bank account details because the bank won't let me have a bank account until I have filled in this form and have a reference number. 

Nooooooooooo. 

I then need to go to a different büro where they will give me another number and another form to fill in. 

I need Medical Insurance, Social Security Insurance and Tax forms. I need a bank account and a lobotomy.

I am frustrated and bored and angry. I think I might be going through the 7 stages of grief. When do I get to acceptance?

Fix it
...Phoned a friend. She's German and she's going to help. 

I realised I should take my own advice. That network of friends you have? They are more than just good at listening and making you cups of tea. Use them.

Katy 

Be Honest, Be Positive, Be Brief

How do you stay motivated when you work from home?

How to stay motivated when you work from home? 

Firstly, I'm rubbish at this!  

As I write this, I realise I promised my best friend I'd send this blog to her 4 weeks ago! 4 weeks?!!? I've realised I wasn't even motivated enough to write it..... I get the irony! 

So today panic set in. I went to see my tax advisor and I realised I'm not as motivated as I should be in lots of areas. 

If in doubt...Google it.

I googled "how to be motivated working from home" on the Internet and hundreds of sites came up. I'm just going to give you my version of what I learnt and what I'm going to do to make the changes for me. 

1. Turn off Facebook, Twitter, Netfixs. 

It's obvious, but it's never just one episode of House of Cards. For me, it's never just one text or instant message. We all get chatting and that's half my morning gone. 

Turn it off. Put the phone down and back away. 

2. Get dressed for the part. 

I have to get the kids dressed, argue about putting their shoes on, then their coats, then their bike helmets etc etc. Sound familiar? So I take the kids to school by bike and that's not the easiest things to do fully suited and booted. 

But in the UK, I've worked in a suit for 15 years. It's a habit. My working zeal returns when I have a suit on. 

A suit it is then. 

3. Do exercise. 

This one is easier. I have scheduled time with friends and classes to make myself do exercise. Guilt free and ready made exercise is essential. The days I do it, I'm so much more motivated already. 

.....Maybe more exercise then. 

4. Have a schedule. Have goals. 

Have a plan on what you want to complete that day, that week. 

Your to-do-list can be endless but without self imposed deadlines you'll never do anything. 4 weeks remember?!?

5. Give yourself rewards. 

This is the best advice I found on the Internet:

I'm going to tell myself to do the work for 10 minutes. If I still hate it or I'm not getting anywhere - I'll do something else. In reality, I'll have got into it by then but I do have some rewards I want to use! 

Katy 

be honest, be brief, be positive.