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Episode 29 - Finding Your Feet - A Meditation for the Start of the Academic Year
The first few weeks of the academic year can be intense.
Students have arrived, Welcome Week is behind us, teaching has begun, and after weeks of preparation, last-minute changes and unexpected challenges, things...
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Episode 28 - Finding balance in the busyness
Are you competing at being busy?
It feels as though everybody is busy at the moment.
Ask someone how they are and "busy" is almost the default answer. Then someone else shares what they're dealing with, someone else...
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Episode 27 - Searching for Peace of Mind
What does peace of mind actually look like when you have an active brain, a demanding job and plenty of things competing for your attention?
In this episode, recorded while pottering around on my allotment, I'm...
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Episode 26 - What actually is coaching?
What actually is coaching?
It's a question I've been thinking about a lot recently, partly after attending a conference where I found myself explaining my work to therapists, psychologists and other practitioners, and...
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Episode 25 - September: New Year Vibes
September has always had a bit of a New Year feeling for me.
Perhaps that's inevitable when you work in Higher Education. The academic year begins another cycle, routines change and, after the summer, there's often a...
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Episode 24 - Reminder: You're Awesome
This episode is a little different. I'm recording from my allotment, surrounded by the buzz of the bees, and I wanted to take a few minutes to remind you of something you might have forgotten.Â
You're awesome.
Summer...
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Episode 23 - Have enough information to manage the situation
Sometimes the thing holding us back isn’t confidence or courage. It’s information.
In this episode, I explore a simple question that has come up repeatedly in coaching conversations recently: do you have enough...
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Episode 22 - Getting ready starts earlier than you think
When should you start preparing for your next role?
Many people only begin thinking about career progression when they’re frustrated in their current job or urgently looking for a way out. In this episode, I explore...
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Episode 21 - What if it's not a skills problem?
In this episode, I explore an idea that has shaped much of my coaching over the years: what if the challenges you're experiencing as a manager aren't really about skills?Â
Many of us spend years reading books,...
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Episode 20 - Why does habit change feel so gross?
In this episode, I step back from the individual leadership thresholds I’ve been exploring recently and talk about something that sits underneath all of them: why changing the way we manage can feel so...
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Episode 19 - New Manager Threshold
In this episode, I wrap up my series on the leadership thresholds managers encounter as they progress through their careers by returning to the very beginning.
I explore one of the most significant transitions of all:...
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Episode 18 - Quiet Communication
In this episode, I explore a question I hear regularly from thoughtful, capable professionals: how do you get your voice heard when you’re surrounded by louder, faster, more extroverted colleagues?
I talk about the...
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