photo credit: DaveBleasdale According to a recent survey, 40% of professionals are considering going in search of a new job when ...
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Christine Livingston is a coach and writer, who helps professional people wanting to work and live on their own terms. With a successful career both inside and beyond the corporation to draw from, Christine gives the support, challenge, tools and inspiration that enable people to thrive. -
Category Archives: Recession
What Keeps You Awake At Night?
The other day I was doing a thorough review of the analytics of my site with Marketing Coach, Jim Connolly. We discovered an interesting thing. Lots of people are reading my stuff at 2am. There could be two reasons for this: Either you're so ...
What If There IS No Work?
So, here's the thing: some of my clients are in the unusual-for-them position of having no work right now. They've either been made redundant from their firms, are watching their businesses hit the skids, or are just generally less well ...
Workshops: The Most Powerful Form Of Coaching?
This week I've been talking to a number of people who are attending the Work Life Balance Workshop I'm running on September 24th. Besides asking me about what to expect, the conversation has often moved into questions about my motivation for creating the event, and why I chose a workshop format at all. I decided ...
What Employers Need To Know Now
Last week The Wall Street Journal reported that more people are quitting their jobs than being laid off for the first time in 15 consecutive months. Recent UK figures paint a similar picture. The WSJ article reckons there's two reasons: First, there's a ...
The Opportunity In The Silence
Photo credit: Steven Durbin Photography If there's one word I've heard clients use a lot recently, it's the word reality. It has come up as they've talked about what's happening in their businesses right now. Because some of them are once more finding ...
How to live more easily with the fear of layoff
According to UK Labour Market Statistics, about half a million people have lost their jobs since this time last year. That's a lot of people who've had "sorry, we don't need you any more..." conversations. And with cost-cutting measures still in vogue, how do ...
How to stay in your current job AND enjoy it!
This is the third in an occasional series of posts for people in corporate jobs. During the series I’ll be talking about some of the challenges you face in the current economic environment, and giving you some pointers for dealing with them in ways ...
The 10 smartest things you can do to get the most from your next team building off-site
This is the first in an occasional series of posts for people in corporate jobs. During the series I'll be talking about some of the challenges you face in the current economic environment, and giving you some pointers for dealing with them in ways ...