Career planning
Career priorities shift depending on age, life stage and BIG events. Priorities change in your 20s, 30s, 40s and 50s. In the early years finding your niche, money, status, challenge and experimentation are important. In the later years, making a difference, doing...
Apprenticeships
I attended the Gloucestershire Jobs, Skill and Apprenticeships LiftOff 2020 event at Kingsholm Stadium on 11th September 2020. The event demonstrated what amazing jobs and apprenticeships are...
Career planning
Happy New (School) Year! It’s September 1st! This week is the week of new beginnings and change and more so than ever in our crazy new covid-19 world. Today it is 165 days since 20th March when my children last went to school, that’s over 23 weeks and 5 months! This...
Business Success
We are over 23 weeks into lockdown and it is definitely been a marathon and not a sprint. I was hoping (and praying) that the children would go back to school in June at some point for all our sakes, but that wasn’t to be! The first of September is like a new...
Back2Work, Events
Schools Out For Summer – A New Chapter Schools out for Summer but what if infant school, junior school or senior school is out forever! Happy End of (School) Year! It is July. The holidays are upon us. This is the month or week of endings and change as children...
Business Success
On Friday morning, I had the absolute pleasure of interviewing one of my favourite local heroines Tamara Cater Barker, the Founder of Epic Dance, in one of my favourite locations, the National Diving & Activity Centre in Tidenham Gloucestershire. I wanted to talk...
Lifelong learning
1. Unmasking motherhood – Katherine Wintsch 2. If I should have a daughter – Sarah Kay 3. My Philosophy for a Happy Life – Sam Berns 4. The Power of Vulnerability – Brene Brown 5. The Joy of Surfing in Ice Cold Water – Chris Burkard 6. How you stop screwing...
Career planning
1. End of Year Budgets Occasionally large companies find that they have monies left over at the end of the year which have been allocated to headcount, so they need to get someone into the business quickly to secure the budget 2. Get Ahead of the Competition...
Career planning
When you’re looking to carve out a new role, change direction in your current career, or get back on the career carousel, it’s time to take stock of your transferable skills and how they can help you. Transferable skills are like the tracks on your iPod. You take them...
Career planning
You might be planning your next corporate career move, contemplating a change of direction, leaving a role, getting back into the workplace, even re-inventing yourself from scratch. Where do you start? STAGE 1: You start with YOU DISCOVER WHO and WHERE YOU ARE What...
