I hate starlings. Or, at least, I used to. Black slimy birds, who flock together and can be aggressive about their territory, stealing food that’s put out for the cuter birds. Robins, black birds, finches. Until this spring, when a starling couple started building a nest in a hole in my neighbours’ roof, left by…
Tag Archive: work change
How Being A Little Badass Will Help You Thrive In 2011
What mindset are you choosing to adopt as you come into this New Year? That’s the question I’m asking as we kick off the Recession Proof Your Career in 2011 series. With the squeeze on jobs and small businesses there are two places you might be. The first is siege mentality: head down, resigned to…
How To Make This Your Last Ever Bad Day At Work
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…
Why Freelancers Hold The Key To Happiness At Work
Did you know that there are now 1.4m freelance workers in the UK, and 42.6m in the US? That’s around 8% of our full-time working populations taking responsibility for their own livelihoods. Interesting? Even more interesting, freelancer workers are among the happiest. Reasons for being happy? They have more control over what work they will…
Twitter’s Role In Human Resources!
Twitter is at its best when it connects different people around a common interest. Today I want to share the inspiring developments I’ve seen among some Human Resources folks from the UK. You might wonder what this has to do with me. My mission these days is less corporate and more personal. In a sea…
How A Year In The Country Has Revolutionized My Work Life
Can you believe that a year ago this week I was loading a van with all my stuff and heading from my much loved house in Wimbledon, to a cottage in the Buckinghamshire countryside? (Well, technically, I wasn’t loading the van, but you get the picture.) The whole purpose was to allow me to create…
Book Review: The New Social Learning
As someone who flies the flag for the reinvention of work, I was excited to receive a preview copy of The New Social Learning the other day. In the business world, social media is something that tends to be seen as a marketing tool on the one hand; employee time waster on the other. What…
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…
Getting Ahead By Not Being A Cliché
Meet Eduard Ezeanu. A regular commentor here on the blog, today he’s giving us some fabulous, tangible advice on how we can be extraordinary. One thing which I find amusing is how most people expect to get out of the ordinary success and satisfaction in their careers, without doing or being themselves out of the…
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 glut of people who have sat out the recession in the relative…
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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.
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