Tag Archive | "career performance"
Career Coaching, Career Preparation
If you are either at crossroads in your career or still figuring out what ‘ladder you really want to climb’, a dream job may well be just what you should be looking for. However, many people are unprepared to contemplate the idea - well, it’s just a dream, isn’t it?
The short answer is - it [...]
Career Coaching, Career Preparation, Resources
Have you found yourself being stuck in a relationship with your boss or colleagues? Or stuck in a job you no longer enjoy? You hear yourself saying “well that’s the way it is”, ” that’s the way he/she is”, “I can’t because ….” “that’s reality” or “I wanted this promotion so….”
The stuckness can bring up [...]
Career Coaching, Career Preparation, Resources
At Figuring Out we believe that rewarding work and high performance are closely linked. Work is more likely to be rewarding if it gives you what you want from it and you are more likely to perform at a high level if your work is rewarding.
It is a reinforcing cycle because performing at a high [...]
Career Coaching, Career Preparation, Resources
Ten years ago iPlayer, iTunes and YouTube didn’t exist. Hard to believe isn’t it? And the same digital revolution that hit the entertainment industry is having a big impact on job hunting and recruitment.
Online job boards, recruiters on Twitter and professional social networking sites are just some of the changes that have taken place. Overwhelming? [...]
Career Coaching, Career Preparation, Resources
Nine out of 10 organisations are now using coaching to help boost staff performance, despite a cut in budgets for training according to the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development ’s annual survey Taking the Temperature of Coaching, which found a sharp increase in the use of coaching as a training tool. Previous surveys found that only [...]
Resources
When you do something different with your career – it is a big change! This is true whether the change is planned or unexpected, and whether it is positive or negative.
We anticipate what will change as a result of us being in a different role, company, team, industry sector, self-employment or unemployment. We will work [...]
Career Coaching, Career Preparation, Resources
A recent report revealed that people facing redundancy are turning to travel - creating a generation of “grown-up gappers”.
The research showed that three-quarters of those hit by job losses are planning to use the time to take a version of the traditional student gap year.
This could be a great way for people to find [...]
Career Coaching, Career Preparation, Work Experience
Have you ever worked on a winning team? If you have you’ll know the living spirit that imbues and influences every team member – a spirit that can inspire a whole team to extra ordinary levels of performance.
Have you ever worked in a team with sinking morale? If you have you’ll know the way that [...]
Career Coaching, Career Preparation
Increasing companies are using personality profiling as a tool to help them recruit and build high achieving teams plus develop their leaders of the future.
For your personal use, these tools can also help you to clarify your own career selection and transition. We’ll look at three of the most well known of these tests: [...]
Career Preparation, Resources
Last weeks episode of the Apprentice showed the last 5 in the gruelling CV and interview round. What are the lessons to be learned?
Lesson One from Yasmina “The Entrepreneur”
Get you numbers straight
Employers love to see numbers on a CV; it shows quantitative evidence of your achievements. So include figures and percentages such as, how much [...]
