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Unlock Your Team’s Potential: Mastering Career Week Essentials
May 15, 2024 | Career Development
Are you ready to enhance your team's career experience? In this newsletter, we'll explore the essential steps to organizing an impactful Career Week for your team. As an experienced Career Coach who has both organised career weeks in former companies including Google,...

Careers in the 100 Year Life
Mar 14, 2024 | Future of Work
Ever stop to think about how our lives are stretching out longer than ever before? It's kind of mind-blowing. We're living longer, which means we're working longer too. The old idea of splitting our lives neatly into education, work, and retirement? Yeah, that's...
Negotiating Salary
Mar 12, 2023 | Career Development
Negotiating a better salary at job offer can be intimidating, especially if you lack confidence. However, with the right mindset and strategies, it is possible to increase your confidence and successfully negotiate a better salary. In this blog, I will share some tips...
How to be more assertive at work
Feb 15, 2023 | Workplace Well-being
Do you struggle with getting your point across at work? Perhaps you walk away from meetings and wonder why you didn’t speak up. Are there certain people you work with who you find intimidating to communicate with? If any of these scenarios resonate with you, I have a...
How to manage career uncertainty
Jan 23, 2023 | Career Development
Have you ever had to deal with uncertainty in your career?
Given that we will work for over 40 years of our lives, it is likely that we will face uncertainty at least once in our careers. This can be a source of stress and anxiety as we try to make sense of what is happening. Recently many of my friends and former colleagues have been impacted by the lay-offs in tech. Often what can be most stressful is the period of uncertainty that follows when a company announces lay-offs.
Why you struggle to achieve your career goals (and what to do about it)
Dec 31, 2022 | Career Development
This is something I see my clients struggle with all the time. They want to get a promotion, change jobs or finally feel less stressed at work but it just never happens. I’ve heard clients say they have been planning for years, or that their partner has been begging...
4 tips on building confidence for job searching
May 30, 2022 | Career Development
Changing jobs or returning to the workforce should be an exciting time, however we know that there can often be times where we doubt ourselves when changing jobs. Perhaps you had a difficult interview in the past or your confidence is low after a break from work....
Common themes in career coaching
May 14, 2022 | Career Coaching
Career Coaching ThemesAfter five months in business, I thought it might be interesting to write about some of the reasons that clients come for career and wellness coaching. Every client is different but there are some themes starting to emerge already. In...
3 month review
May 9, 2022 | Career Development
It's three months since I started Positive Prospects, so what have I learned and achieved in that time? I'll be honest, the thing I am most proud of is that I have started my business and that I am confident in putting myself out there. This time one or two years ago...
Self compassion in career coaching
May 2, 2022 | Career Coaching
You’ve been criticising yourself for years and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.— Louise L. HayWhat is self-compassion?In basics terms, it's speaking to ourselves the way we would to our friends.My clients often feel they have sabotaged...
My Career Story
Apr 26, 2022 | Career Coaching
My career story so far and how I became a career coach.
Ditch the boring, heard-it-before advice— let’s get real on truly owning your career.










