The Challenges of High Achievement

Five Things to Bear in Mind when It Comes to High Achievers (click below to view the video or read on if you’d prefer!) Hello and welcome to this ‘back to school’ edition of Career Tips 2014! I hope you have had the chance to relax over the summer months and have returned to your desk “full […]

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Your Quality of Life at Work: What You Can do About it!

Four Tips to be more Comfortable in your Workplace (click below to view the video or read on if you’d prefer!) This article follows on from the previous one which walked you through a self-assessment to determine whether you are at least reasonably happy at work. If you missed last month’s article, you catch it […]

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What’s your Quality of Life – at Work?

Being Able to Know Whether You are Happy at Work (click below to view the video or read on if you’d prefer!) Welcome to the first summer edition of Career Tips! To help us shift gears away from work considerations, let’s ask: are you happy at work? In the morning, do you look forward to going into the office? […]

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Keys to Maintaining Motivation – for You and your Team

Reflections on Motivation and How we May Lose it (click below to view the video or read on if you’d prefer!) Welcome to the sixth edition of Career Tips in 2014. Earlier in the year, we talked about your work goals for 2014, we discussed your blind spots and how they can prevent you from making […]

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3 Steps to Setting and Achieving your Goals in 2013

A Recipe to Keep your New Year’s Resolutions (click below to view the video or read on if you’d prefer!) Hello and a happy and prosperous 2013 to all! For many, January is the month of so-called “resolutions”. And yet, I just read that one in four New Year’s resolutions are broken in the first week, […]

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5 Steps to Leading Others through Change

Help Them to SHIFT™ (click below to view the video or read on if you’d prefer!) Welcome to chapter two of my two-part series on change! Last month, the onset of autumn provided the inspiration to look at how we cope with change, that challenging constant at home and at work. I shared with you the […]

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4 Steps to Finally Embracing Change

How to VEER™ Gracefully (click below to view the video or read on if you’d prefer!) Welcome to fall! Welcome to autumn! In the UK, where I live, the rain is back and it’s getting chillier in the mornings and evenings. It’s a time of change with the leaves turning all shades of yellow and red. […]

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Beating Drudgery and Dejection Part 2

How Practicing Choice and Gratitude will Help you Stay Motivated (click below to view the video or read on if you’d prefer!) In the preceding article, I was discussing Drudgery at work and its boon companion Dejection. With Drudgery, all sense of fun is lost and with Dejection motivation goes out the window. I gave […]

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Beating Drudgery and Dejection Part 1

Keeping your Spirits Up in the face of Adversity with some ‘What’ Questions (click below to view the video or read on if you’d prefer!) The other day, a friend wrote me: “I am in a phase of life where everything is just plain drudgery, heavy annoyance and pain internally.…we are all struggling massively….” Does […]

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