There is a danger of becoming a couch potato and no, I couldn’t do without Sky! Many play golf and I must admit I have misgivings not being able to play with Anton, my son, but I don’t want to start playing a sport badly with little prospect of dramatic improvement and then get frustrated. [...]

Many people are unhappy in their existing job. Are you? Do you have a boss who undermines you?Has the organisation changed so much and that you no longer believe in it?Are you just fed up with continuously being in the same role and don’t feel you make a difference?Logically, many would say now isn’t the [...]

How are you planning for 2011 and beyond? Unfortunately, we are no longer in a world where we have a contract of employment for life. For some this will be regarded as an opportunity to try something new or have a change. For others, the prospect of a major change in employment every five years [...]

As you are probably aware I am a career coach and I come across many examples of the difficulties that individuals have as well as their families. This is an example from a friend who gives an illustration of what I am afraid is only going to get worse over the next couple of years. [...]

I am in two internet joke telling circles and somehow my previous post about Joshua Bell slipped through the net. The experiment made me stop and think and I forwarded it on to a couple of coaches. One of these, Anne Pink from New Horizons, sent through the following poem. The poem was written in [...]

In Washington, DC , at a Metro Station, on a cold January morning in 2007, this man with a violin played for 43 minutes whilst approximately 1,100 people went through the station, most of them on their way to work. He chose not play popular tunes whose familiarity alone might have drawn interest, but instead [...]