Leadership: Behaviour Vs Intention
Several years ago, I was chatting to Barry, my coach and mentor. At the time, I was particularly aggrieved at the behaviours of one of my peers. I complained that this person’s actions were clearly [...]
Is Middle Management Holding your Business Back?
Our coaching spans all levels of organisations and I was working with a ‘Middle Manager’ the other day and the question came up, what is middle management – what is the role? It’s an interesting [...]
Restructure – Funeral or Celebration?
Have you found a need to restructure your organisation lately? There’s a lot of it going on. There are a number of reasons why you would undertake this daunting task but the two big one’s [...]
5 Things to Consider Before Taking a Promotion
Have you been offered a promotion? Is it taking you out of your technical area into leadership management? ......not so fast..... Have you actually considered what this means and looks like? You have fantastic technical [...]
Coaching Q&A
Career Life Transitions sat down with one of their senior coachee's to explore the reasons why and how they chose a coach, for their personal and professional development. We interviewed Glen, a state manager for [...]
Why Use a Coach?
As a coach I’m aware that there are 4 key areas I‘m asked to assist people through: 1. Coaching for individual behaviour 2. Coaching for interactive behaviours 3. Coaching to convert knowledge to action 4. [...]
Conflict Resolution: Why should I take the first steps?
When conflict arises in almost any situation, people immediately head to their corners and start to build the fortifications. Then when the conflict escalates they come out metaphorically swinging. If the conflict is around malicious [...]
Career Development at Any Age: I didn’t plan for this!
One of the things I’m hearing more and more from people as they move into their 50’s is the phrase “I didn’t plan for my life to turn out like this”. In some [...]
Aged Care: A Career Life Transitions Perspective
Between 1946 and 1965, 5.5 million people were born in Australia, this is the Baby Boomer demography. That means that this year the first of that group are 72 years old and will be or [...]
Life after 50: Work, Attachments, Fears and Options
We’re over in Queenstown at the moment doing some skiing and snowboarding. We were up on the slopes yesterday and started chatting to an elderly gentleman, as it turns out, at 78, he had only [...]

















Dr Susan Roberts says: