Read our blogs from Barefoot Coaching-certified coaches as they explore the lessons they have learned (and teach to their clients). From relationships to careers, to life goals and mental wellness, find their wisdom below.
There are so many benefits to remote working; for example, no commute, more flexibility in what you wear and potentially fewer interruptions. However, the lines between work and home are blurring in different ways bringing a whole new set of challenges.
Watching the TV programme “Eat well, spend less,” I was fascinated by the way we can easily get into hard to break habits. Living on auto-pilot, filling the supermarket trolley with items that “we always buy” without really thinking, I guess that can also be said of a lot of things we do in life.
Unfortunately we are seeing an increase in the number of jobs being made redundant and will continue to do so over the coming months. Just because something is commonplace and “happening to everyone” doesn’t mean it’s any easier to deal with.
Who is the most powerful person you know, who would be willing to vouch for your work and help you secure a promotion?
In my last role in a FTSE100 company, I would frequently find employees I hadn’t met scheduling time in my diary – on the pretext of “I’m going to be in your location, it would be great to meet” – but always it was with the purpose of raising their visibility and trying to impress me.
A Psychological Review of Bad Boy Billionaires (Netflix) The new Netflix series starts off featuring the “King of Good Times”, Vijay Mallya. He is an Indian entrepreneur who has lived a lavish playboy life style. Lionel Ritchie sang at his fiftieth birthday, and Enrique Iglesias sang at his sixtieth. He has been married three times, […]
It’s natural to lose self-confidence after a health or job-loss crisis. You are facing unchartered territory and it can be really scary. The same goes for when you feel stuck in a job / career that no longer challenges you or allows you to grow.
Life is full of FUD right now – Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt – due to the global pandemic. It is critical to engender a work culture in which people feel safe sharing views, new methods of working and ideas for dealing with change.
