Category: Podcast

The Covid pandemic has highlighted how mental health challenges affect everybody and the importance of looking after our mental health. Your physical health is something you can fairly easily monitor: you can keep track of your weight, and if you injure something you usually know about it. But what about your mental health?  How do you know if you're mentally fit and well and what can you do if you think there's some work to do? In this episode, we’re joined by success coach and corporate wellbeing trainer Melanie Pritchard to discuss how we can build positive mental health and wellbeing practices in the workplace and what you can do personally to look after your mental health. (more…)

You’re fed up with your current career, but you fear what you might lose if you decide to make a change.  Will you have to take a pay cut?  Will you be throwing away years of experience?  And what will friends and family think? In this interview, Carol Parker Walsh explains how to overcome the fears that are holding you back from making a career change and how to evaluate the transferable skills you’ve acquired which you can take into your future career. (more…)

Do you find yourself doubting your abilities? Do you worry that, one day, someone will ask you if you really know what you’re doing? In this interview, Charlotte Crabtree of Reflex Coaching discusses how to deal with feelings of self-doubt and imposter syndrome, and offers some useful tools and techniques you can use to overcome people-pleasing and not setting boundaries. (more…)

All too often career coaching is only accessible to the senior members of an organisation, but it can benefit anyone, no matter your seniority or trajectory within your organisation. In this episode we’re joined by Philippa Kindon who, in addition to her role in business development for a healthcare software company, is also a coach within her organisation. She explains the benefits of having people trained to be coaches within the workplace and how we can make career coaching available to everyone. (more…)

Appraisals can be an opportunity for reflection and improvement, a positive experience, so why do they so often seem like a box-ticking exercise and a massive chore that just means more work for already busy people? What can you do in your workplace to help make performance management and appraisal processes more effective? In this episode, we’re joined by Lucinda Carney, a chartered psychologist with over 20 years of corporate experience to discuss the purpose of appraisals, how organisations can make them more effective and what employees can do to bring about changes to the workplace appraisal. (more…)

Weekly team meetings are a great way of getting your colleagues together but all too often they feel like you’re having meetings just for the sake of it. Do you come out of these meetings thinking that they were productive and worthwhile?  Or that they were a boring waste of time that’s just about going through the motions? In this week’s episode, we’re joined by executive coach and meetings expert Mamie Kanfer Stewart to discuss how we can make meetings more productive, effective, and enjoyable. (more…)

It’s common to feel overwhelmed if you get promoted to a leadership position.  You might feel you don’t have the right skills to match your new responsibilities and that being a leader means you’re not able to play to the strengths that got you promoted in the first place. So how can you best handle a leadership promotion and what should you do when you first start in a leadership position? These are the questions we tackle in this episode with “America’s Career Coach”, Ken Coleman. Ken also explains how a good leader doesn’t need to be good at everything and instead should focus on empowering those that they lead. (more…)

Once you’ve figured out your ideal career the next challenge is finding the right place to work. It’s no use working in your dream role if the company you’re working for doesn’t share the same values as you. In this episode, career coach Lindsay Gordon shares some great tips about how you can find a job and an employer which is a fit for you and how you can make sure your own values align with that of a new potential employer. Lindsay also emphasises the importance of choice and explains how you can use the interview process to assess whether an organisation is right for you. (more…)

BitLift founder and cryptocurrency expert Gerbz describes what went wrong when he sold his business and started to work in corporate, how he switched things up and how diving down the cryptocurrency rabbit hole has enabled him to take control of his destiny. (more…)

Jose M The lines between work and home life have become blurred during the pandemic as more people work from home, sometimes whilst simultaneously looking after children.  Against that backdrop, it’s no wonder people are feeling burnt out. In this interview, Destiny Spurrell of Soul Spark explains the phases of burnout and provides effective methods for recovering from burnout and also preventing it in the first place. (more…)