Beat the blues with these easy mood boosters

Beat the blues with these easy mood boosters

Has a stressful day, week or month got you feeling down? It can help to remember that everyone experiences stress and worry at different times in their lives. And while it is for the most part perfectly normal, it doesn’t make it any less uncomfortable! Whether you’re...
How to be the boss of your worry

How to be the boss of your worry

Worry got you feeling overwhelmed, stressed or unable to cope? It can help to reconceptualise worry as a bully that bosses us around, telling that something bad is going to happen, that we’ve stuffed up, or that we’re not good enough in some way.  The good news...
Essential goals for a successful 2020

Essential goals for a successful 2020

The new year is the ideal time to reflect on your progress over the past year and to set your goals for the year ahead. When thinking about creating your goals, you need to ensure you are setting realistic targets, develop an achievable timeline, work out how you will...
How to embrace change and uncertainty

How to embrace change and uncertainty

Change is inevitable. Without it, life would become stagnant. While change and instability have always been a fact of life, it hasn’t always felt so omnipresent. In our modern world, we are constantly bombarded with headlines that make us feel uncertain about the...
12 tips for being a coach in your own life

12 tips for being a coach in your own life

Career and life coaches help people solve problems and serve as a wonderful means to help unlock potential and overcome personal & professional challenges. As great as they may be, they are not always financially accessible and in that case, applying self-coaching...
The importance of purpose

The importance of purpose

At some point in your working life there may come a time when you ask yourself ‘why am I doing this?’ Working for the sole purpose of earning a living, or for achieving personal gain, often fails to provide fulfilment. That’s where a sense of purpose comes in. The...
Are you standing in the way of your own success?

Are you standing in the way of your own success?

When life doesn’t go as planned it is tempting to blame external circumstances and focus on them. While we cannot control everything, circumstances don’t always ‘just happen’. Sometimes we get in our own way.  Our thoughts influence our success much more...
The power of meaningful conversations in business

The power of meaningful conversations in business

Learning to have conversations is one of the very first things we do as a child. We say our first words, expand our vocabulary, and before we know it we are chatting away with anyone who will listen. Conversations are such a formative element of our lives, and our...
10 Tips for leading a high-performing team

10 Tips for leading a high-performing team

‘The whole is greater than the sum of its parts’ – Aristotle High-performing teams are groups who work towards a common goal and are able to achieve exceptional results. They generally exceed expectations and show remarkable resilience when confronted with...
Five reasons executives need a coach

Five reasons executives need a coach

Leadership is an art. While many leadership traits come naturally it is only through education, training, learning and experience that leadership skills become refined. There is a common misconception that only poor performers or under performers need business...