Do you confuse what you do for a living with who you are as a person, so that when something bad happens at work it affects the whole of your life? This is a theme that has come up in my work this week, and one I thought I’d share with you. My people are…
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How To Keep Smiling At Work When You’re Dying Inside
photo credit: Symic You struggle into work one morning but you’re this pent up source of uninvited yuckiness. It feels like the world and her handbags have taken up residence on your shoulders overnight and even the colours around you look greyer and less inviting. You know you shouldn’t feel like this, you have everything going…
How Not To Give Feedback At Work
An embarrassing thing happened to me the other day that I want to share and get your perspective on. I’m in a coffee shop with my other half for breakfast. I order him a bacon butty. The barista, a fairly new guy, doing his best at smiley customer service, puts two sachets of ketchup on…
The Great Indispensability Hoax
I woke up this morning with a scratchy throat. You know that thing you get when your body is fighting an infection? It’s not at all bad or disabling and I’m dosing up on mega vitamin C and echinacea, as they normally help me see bugs off pretty quickly. But it has been making me…
How Safe Is Your Career From Extinction?
With temperatures reaching 20 degrees centigrade, it’s been summer again over the weekend here in the South of England. But, with David Cameron’s call for us to pull together to get Britain back on track, at the same time as Civil Service Unions were negotiating redundancy payment terms that could allow up to 100,000 job…
A Comprehensive Guide To Slaying Your Vampire Boss
Your first meeting with her was inspirational. “Hurrah for charisma,” you thought. At the time, something lurched in your solar plexus; something you couldn’t name. But you told yourself not to be silly; you were just imagining things. But weeks after you start working for her, things are not right. You’ve got all the signs…
Is Your Boss A Closet Vampire? Check These Tell-Tale Signs
Ever have that feeling of being perpetually drained of energy? You know, that wrung-out, zombie state that never seems to leave you? You want to shake yourself free of it, but can’t quite find the enthusiasm. Meantime, there’s work to do, targets to meet, actions to deliver. So you just go along with it all,…
How The Threat Of Lay Off Can Scare You Sh*tless (And What To Do About It)
So, there have been like three rounds of job cuts at your place already over the last couple of years. And just when you were beginning to think it might finally be safe enough to move from your rented apartment to buying your own place, they put you under notice of lay off again. The…
4 Reframes To Get Your Career Groove Back
When you fall victim to some form of corporate insanity, it doesn’t just set your career back – it can cripple your professional confidence and make you doubt your ability to realise your long term ambitions. On top of that, the bogey man of today’s employment market can be the all pervading fear factor, threatening…
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 passionate about what you’re doing that you’re burning the candle on…