Ever notice how some people sail through life seemingly without a care and others get hooked or caught up on something along the way and appear to be stuck. As Heraclitus said “The Only Thing That Is Constant Is Change” and some people have trouble accepting that fact. If Heraclitus said this over 2,500 years ago, [...]
Whilst we do a lot of coaching for development at CLT, we also strongly recommend establishing a mentoring program within your business. There are some major differences between mentoring and coaching, and these differences make the combination a very powerful development tool. At CLT we focus on coaching programs that are: Targeted toward results and [...]
I was speaking to a good friend of mine the other day about the nature of change and she raised an interesting scenario. When an employee in her organisation was put into a better position, a promotion that they willingly accepted, they brought with them enough of the past to potentially derail their future. It [...]
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 of malicious intent, and intended to position me in a negative light. It seemed so clear to me at the [...]
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 question, having worked with many organisations I see this layer of people between the workforce and senior management. In the [...]
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 a national financial institution. Glen describes in 1 word what he was looking for in a coach.....'clarity'.... Q1. What [...]
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. Coaching to solve a problem, make a decision or choose a new pathway. These requests either come from the individual [...]
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 intent then there is some argument to support this approach. Facts are that most of the conflicts we see are [...]
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 learned to ski 20 years ago and his sons, who are now in their 50’s, have just started to learn [...]
Few people would realise that prior to taking on the role as General Manager at Career Life Transitions I was a skydiving instructor. I have over 4000 jumps under my belt and have worked all over the world including drop zones in Spain, Sweden and the USA. As a skydiving instructor I was at the [...]
Dr Susan Roberts says: