In order to grow your career, you need to take control and lead from the front and not wait for others to define where your career will go. Practice Proactivity The art of proactivity is key to career development and it’s one of the single biggest things that separates those who get promoted verses those who don’t. Upskill, Always Strive to be the best you can be in your field and in fields you work closely alongside. Upskilling can not only help you with career development i

I hear it time and time again that it is HR’s or the Training Departments role to define my training calendar. The reality is, it is your career, and you know what best suites your need to be able to deliver on your career dream. People have turned into human robots where they sit and wait for others to do all the thinking for them and hope to have a successful career. It would be nice to be able to just sit back and everything you dream of just falls into place, but the real

So what is quiet quitting? Have you ever had an employee who use to deliver outstanding quality to later find that one day they do the minimum, do their job, but no longer show the energy, passion and drive they once use to. They do not quit the job but they dial back their efforts and do the bare minimum. They do the basic minimum job to a point where you can not fire them for poor performance because they are not doing anything badly, or wrong, but they no longer go above a

You may ask yourself why a management development coach is writing about electricity. I often use electricity, well at least the terminology of electricity, when coaching and guiding others. I liken electricity to the emotions of a person. Just as you can not see electricity, you can not see the emotions of a person. We can tell if there is electricity as the lights will come on or the kettle will boil, just as we can see if a person is affected by an emotional issue by chang

I was fortunate enough to share an office with a senior leader for a client I was partnering with and as is always the case when I am available to others, this leader decided to engage in many micro coaching sessions. He was not only seeking personal development, but also wanted to share ideas and concepts with me as a form of re affirming his ideas would work. During one of our micro coaching sessions, we were interrupted by another senior leader within the company. They wer

Being a life and business coach is about helping others overcome their limiting beliefs and guiding them to deliver to their full potential. Having coached for the past 18 years, I have experienced some extreme cases of limiting beliefs where the person is so full of doubt that it has restricted and limited, not only their professional career, but their personal relationships. Being a great leader and being successful in life is about you being you. We all have natural tenden

I often coach potential great leaders only to hear of their controlling bosses who perhaps fear their jobs because of the great qualities of their people. Old school leaders often fear their jobs when they are surrounded by intelligent people who have a willingness, and passion to help their boss, and the company succeed. The trouble is the boss sees this as a threat and not an opportunity. The boss chooses to micro manage their people as a controlling measure to secure their