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Use This Personality Test For Ideas On Careers, Relationships And Friends I use a personality test with many of my clients when we are building their self-awareness. I’ve found it helps them understand more about ‘why they behave like they do’ and gives suggestions of potential careers that would suit them. The Meyers-Briggs…
Having a difficult conversation is an issue that came up with a couple of my clients this week and got me thinking about how I deal with them. Do I get angry and release my frustrations by shouting or do I say nothing and bottle my feelings up, suppressing them with resentment? In all honesty, I probably…
You’ve probably heard people talk about the confidence gap between men and women, but what is it and how can we narrow it? As a Confidence and Career Coach, it’s obviously something I support women with on a daily basis. Research and my own experience have shown that in general men are more confident…
What If Confidence Isn’t The Problem? That may sound a strange comment coming from a confidence coach. But imagine, if it wasn’t that you lacked confidence it was just that you thought you did. Sounds confusing I know. What I actually mean is, it isn’t the situation that makes us lack confidence it’s…
I realise that happiness means very different things to different people, however when I recently read a blog about the path to happiness I was quite shocked. The writer suggested that in order to be happy we need to build a picture of our perfect life and list the things we need to be…
Helen was a client of mine who was struggling at work, because she was being bullied by a colleague. When she came to see me she felt her confidence was very low and she wanted to leave her job. I quickly picked up that people pleasing was part of Helen’s issue. In work, Helen…
“I want to be authentically confident”, is a common wish I hear from clients. But what does being authentic actually mean? The Oxford Dictionary defines authentic as ‘not a copy; genuine’. To me, it means being yourself, and not an imitation of what you or others think you should be. You are…
When I worked in the corporate world I remember the pressure I felt under to get promoted and be successful. I’m not sure if that was driven by my own beliefs, by peer pressure or the culture in the company. But I do know it affected my confidence to go for career success. One…
With the start of a new year, it’s natural to reflect on how you’re going to be happier, more effective or achieve more in the coming year. To be successful in business, women need their confidence to be at least equal to their competence. With my clients who struggle with confidence, I commonly see these…
We’re into the final few days of 2016 now, where did it go! For some people it’s been a really tough year, but for most of us there will have been some wonderful and positive moments, along with possible setbacks and sadness. Year’s end is neither an end or a beginning, but a going on…