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In the press
Harvard Business Review Ascend: How to Talk to Your Boss about Your Career Development
Career conversations take significant planning and preparation, but in the end, you will walk away with a better idea of how to advance.
Forbes: A Blessing And A Curse: How Can Leaders Manage Their Egos?
Effective ego management is essential to being a good leader. So, what should leaders know about managing their own ego?
Fast Company: This is how managers can have effective conversations with their Gen Z employees
As the workforce continues to evolve, employers and managers are increasingly recognising the need to adapt their communication strategies to better engage with younger generations.
HR Director: Why performance reviews are not the place for career conversations
In our fast-paced world of work today, it’s important to have conversations about both performance and career growth but we need to pay attention to when and in what context we hold each discussion.
People Management: Seven empowering questions to ignite employee engagement
Engagement is crucial in the war for talent, productivity and loyalty.
HR Zone: Eight ways to hold empowering career conversations with employees
If we don’t equip managers with the skills to hold great career conversations with employees, we risk losing talent to our competitors or retaining people who are left to stagnate.
Stylist: 8 steps to having a confident career conversation with your manager
How do you have a genuinely helpful chat with your boss about your goals?
Training Journal: How to develop happy employees
Retaining a motivated, skilled workforce demands work and that includes focussing on all, including your best people.
We Are Tech Women: How to help Gen Z develop their career
Unlike their predecessors, Gen Z places a higher priority on career growth and development rather than job stability.
Harvard Business Review - Ideas and Advice for Leaders
The Harvard Business Review’s ‘Work Smart’ book series features content from Antoinete’s book in ‘Experience, Opportunity, and Developing Your Career’
Harvard Business Review - Ideas and Advice for Leaders
The Harvard Business Review’s ‘Work Smart’ book series features content from Antoinete’s book in ‘Bosses, Coworkers, and Building Great Relationships’
Her World: Are You Earning Enough To Combat Inflation?
It’s not enough to reduce your spending to combat the short- and long-term effects of inflation. You need to take active steps to increase your income, whether it’s by making idle money grow, or negotiating for a higher salary.
Business Leader: Confident Career Conversations: Empower your employees for career growth and retention
“Based on years of experience, sound academic research, this book will help you to ask the right questions and help your people examine their careers, build on their skills, become aware of their real needs and take those next steps forward to fulfil them.” – Richard Kwiatkowski, Professor of Organizational Psychology at Cranfield University
Irish Tech News: Confident Career Conversations: 10 Conversation Tools
Having meaningful career conversations is essential for employee growth and development. Providing an opportunity for reflection, insight, and action, enabling employees to take ownership of their career progress.
Personnel Today: How career conversations help prevent boredom at work
Employee retention is one of the biggest challenges faced by HR. By introducing career conversations, organisations can help motivate and engage staff and potentially address skills shortages
Elite Business: Let’s Talk: Why career conversations are key for retention
In today’s fast-paced business world, employee retention has become a top priority for organisations.
Association of MBAs: Feel the power
Engaging and empowering employees is crucial for organisational growth and success.
Stylist: What to do if it feels like your workplace is blocking your career development
Feel like your manager isn’t helping you progress? There are ways to sort it out.
Forbes: How To Stop Your Staff Quitting Their Jobs
With skills shortages continuing, how can leaders hang on to their prized talent?
SmartCompany Plus: A three-step approach to discussing career development with your boss
Work hard, deliver results, sit back, and wait to be promoted: a strategy that unfortunately rarely works.
Inspirational Speakers: New Speakers
Antoinette Oglethorpe is a Multi-Award-Winning Specialist in Leadership, Career Management and Mentoring.
InformationWeek: 5 Characteristics of Highly Effective Career Conversations
It’s a sad fact that people can often identify a memorably bad career conversation more easily than one which was of significant positive value to them.
SME: Why you need to have confident career conversations
In today’s fast-paced business world, talent management and retention have become increasingly important.
Make A Difference: Is your ego getting in the way of your success at work?
Managing your ego is one of the best things you can do, not only for effective collaboration, but for saving your own time, energy and focus…
Business Leader: Confident Career Conversations: Empower your employees for career growth and retention
Antoinette Oglethorpe is highly experienced at supporting people with their professional development. Now bringing this experience to coaching, mentoring, and leadership development, Confident Career Conversations highlights her key educative points.
Newstalk: Confident Career Conversations with Antionette Oglethorpe
Antionette Oglethorpe has a lifetime’s experience in training, career development, and coaching.
Engage Employee: Six Powerful Questions to Engage and Empower Employees
For business leaders keen on fostering a holistic view of their employees, helping them realise their potential is key.
Maddyness: 3 Essential career conversations to have with your new graduate recruits
The transition from student life to a professional environment can be a bewildering journey for recent graduates.
The Recruitment Show: Live: The Traditional Career Ladder Is Not the Only Game in Town
The future of work is going to be fluid and flexible, so career management and mentoring will need to adapt.
LinkedIn News UK: Get Hired by
Good career conversations require trust and clear communication, LinkedIn News shared tips from Confident Career Conversations in their UK edition of ‘Get Hired.’
Humans at Work Podcast: Meaningful Career Conversations
Episode 105: Meaningful Career Conversations, Antoinette had the pleasure of being the guest speaker on the｜People Focus Consulting podcast ‘Humans at Work’
HR Future: How to Have Career Conversations with Gen Z
Get career development right with your Gen Z talent with these tips print article.
Edge: Opportunity for Engagement
What is the role of career conversations in employee engagement? Print article for Edge.
