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Ensuring resilience in the corporate world.
Coaching: ensuring resilience in the corporate world. Everyone suffers with stress, it’s how you manage it that counts! * 1 in 5 are affected. * Its the biggest cause of sickness. * 103 million days are lost costing £1.24 billion Source Health & Safety Executive What systems do you have in place to support your staff within Human Resources? How do you provide emotional support? How do you ensure that stress, helpful in some circumstances, does not become a negative force?…
Fake it until you make it…?
Fake it until you make it. So you have done it. Your feet are under the desk. They believed everything and yet you still feel like a fraud somewhere deep within. Many people in positions of authority do not allow anyone near enough to let them really ‘see’ them. It’s a risk, after all they may doubt you, and they may start to give you those funny looks that ask the question; ‘Is she/he for real?’ You know that thing…
Authenticity versus fake news.
In this age of the drive for the perfect public face, how can we be authentic as we live? How do we not become our own fake news? Is it perfection that draws others to us, or does it drive them resolutely away? To be able to identify with someone else, we must, I believe, be able to see something in the other that resounds with us, a kind of mirror image. So if we are honest, not just about…
Wholehearted living
As an avid reader I am often inspired by what I read. This book; The Gifts of imperfection by Brene Brown is no exception. I was challenged from the offset with her list for wholehearted living, having believed I lived that way already. What about you? Check out this list and see how it sits with you. People who live wholeheartedly have a list of do’s and a list of don’ts. Here are the do’s: Worthiness, play and rest, trust…
What do you think gives you value?
This morning I was interviewed on various local radio shows across the UK. The reason; Faith in the world week @BBC radio. A poll by ComRes interviewed 1,003 adults by telephone asking the question: what is the most beautiful quality in a friend, partner or parent? The answer was very interesting. Who do you say you are? I am often seen as a professional woman, a coach and a therapist. But sometimes I am seen as an ex model, and for…