On the eve of our company’s 13th birthday, we received the best early present we could have hoped for: our 13th award. And not just any award. We were honoured with the GOLD award for Best Enterprising Business at the SME MK & Buckinghamshire Business Awards. The synchronicity was almost poetic, but more than that,
At the start of the Summer we ran a competition to find the heroes at your work championing and developing careers. Our aim was to recognise and celebrate the unsung Office Career Champions who make a real difference to businesses and careers every day. We want to send a big thank you to everyone who
Academics have spent decades exploring the potential benefits of reflection. It is through reflecting about our concrete experiences that we learn and develop new ways of thinking. It is not a new idea. In fact, around 450 B.C. Confucius is reputed to have said: “Tell me, and I will forget. Show me, and I may
In a recent blog post I talked about why career conversations are important. One question I received in response was “Antoinette – if career conversations are so important, why don’t managers have them?” It’s a good question. Often the reason is that managers lack the skills and confidence required to conduct career conversations. They fear
In my last blog post, I talked about the power of visualisation for career development and the benefits to employees. But visualisation is not only helpful at an employee level. It can also be helpful at an organisational level. In this blog post I’d like to share my experience of helping a client visualise a
You want your employees to be successful, don’t you? In fact, you and they have probably used that word. But do you know what success really means to them? Have they truly thought about it and discussed it with you? People talk about success all the time. But rarely do they define it in a
“Don’t ask what the world needs – ask what makes you come alive because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” Howard Thurman It’s a competitive environment, and organisations need to gain advantage through their people more than ever. But there’s a challenge. While organisations want to maximise employees’ performance, employees want
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