Category: Career Development

Competition Time – Win One of Ten Career Conversation Toolkits

In a time when the job market is uncertain, I am convinced organisations that invest in career conversations and career development for their employees will have a proven competitive advantage. Are you having regular career conversations with your employees? We all know the theory: employees are more engaged when they see a future for themselves

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How to Cultivate a Diverse Culture that Develops Female Talent

“How’s your organisation doing with regard to gender equality? Do you have many women at senior levels?” This line will be familiar to professionals in HR. It’s a focus for many who have recognised that gender inequality in the workplace costs companies. It impacts financial performance, idea innovation, market share, team collaboration and much more.

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How to Build Trust Through Your Personal Brand

“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently”  Warren Buffett  In my last blog post, I talked about How to Clarify Your Personal Brand.  And I made the key point that it’s the unique promise of value you want to

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How to Clarify Your Personal Brand

Companies have brands. Products have brands.  Over the past few years, the concept of ‘personal branding’ has gained momentum. It has become something of a buzzword for modern professionals.But for whatever reason, many aren’t comfortable with developing their personal brand, and may find it ‘salesy’ or even disingenuous. Personal branding isn’t as intense as it sounds. Jeff

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Career development strategies. Are yours up to date?

CCS (or Career Counselling Services to give them their full title) is the organisation I did my career coach training with many, many, years ago.  Twice a year alumni who have trained with CCS come together to exchange knowledge, ideas and experiences as part of our continuous professional development. We were also lucky enough to

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Career match required? Coaching can help [Success Story]

Achieving a good career match between your ambitions and the roles available is your main priority when an organisation restructure is on the cards.  But how do you do that?  That was what I was asked to help one manager with. When I met Sarah she was a senior manager with 20 years’ service in

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Career Development Strategies: Secrets to Accelerate Your Career

When people think about career development, they more often than not think about changing organisation. And sometimes that’s the right thing to do. But job-hunting is tough and, moving to a new company is no guarantee of satisfaction. The grass may or may not be greener. So,it makes a lot of sense to develop your career

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