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In this section you will find helpful videos and articles: from how to ace a job interview, to how to listen to feedback.
New Senior Manager? Remember these 3 things
When people get promoted into a senior management role for the first time, while it’s great for their career, it can be daunting.
Suddenly they are not just leading a team, they are at the top table and impressions, reputation and perceptions become more important. The higher you go up the corporate ladder, the more people you meet and the less they know of you as a person or what you have achieved.
Overloaded?
You’ve got a full schedule of meetings, reports to write and lots of emails you haven’t read. It’s very tempting to plough on and try to push things forward on several fronts. You may feel like you’re very busy - but what are you achieving? It can be tough to think about your priorities and what to do next. If you feel really stuck and overloaded by your to-do list, try this.
Mistake? 4 ways to move past it.
When we make what we see as a mistake at work, it can feel horrible. Not only do we feel bad because of the perceived error, we then ruminate on it and beat ourselves up some more.
We’ve all been there. You can’t turn the clock back and erase the error, but you don’t have to keep reliving it. How you respond can make all the difference.
Here are four steps I use to help me move past making a mistake.
How do I keep work working for me?
I speak to quite a few clients who are feeling a bit disenchanted with work. They’re just not feeling the same way about it as they used to and it's impacting their performance and their general sense of satisfaction with life.
By this time, they want out and they want something new, now. That’s fine, but it can mean that you risk going into something that’s not quite right, just because it’s a change.
Purpose: what does it mean at work?
Unless you are in a very small percentage of the population and very lucky, we largely go to work for the money. But judging by the clients I speak to, people increasingly want more from their careers these days. And why not.
If my coaching conversations generated a word cloud – ‘purpose’ would be by far the biggest one on the screen.
Confident: are you sure?
You may not describe yourself as someone lacking in confidence, but would you be able to spot if you were?
In our experience as coaches, so many issues we come across are linked to a lack of confidence in one situation or another. That’s normal and natural. But often people don’t recognise it, which makes it hard to do something about it. And it can really get in the way or your career.