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Mid Life Career Change for Women London UK | Moving from Employment to Self Employment | Confidence Building. Development for the Mature Women, Personal Development, Business Coaching, Career change

Overcome the Fear of Rejection from Being Told No – Because if You Don’t Ask, You Don’t Get

I first published an article about this topic 8 years ago, but it is a topic I have seen come to the fore quite a bit recently, so I have refreshed it for those of you who may not have read it first time around: How many times have you failed to ask for what …

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Mastering the Art of Visibility and Profile Raising for Introverted Leaders

Gone are the days where a person’s work would speak for itself and that would be sufficient for them getting the recognition that they deserve. These days if you’re not self-promoting and raising your visibility and profile, you can easily go unnoticed and get passed over for promotion. This can be challenging for introverted leaders …

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Does Your Organisation Create an Environment that Allows for Introverts to Speak Up in Meetings in their Preferred Way?

This is for leaders at all levels in organisations: People who are introverted are often told that they should speak up more in meetings. If they don’t speak a lot in meetings, this is often misunderstood by people who do not fully understand what being introverted means. It doesn’t mean that they haven’t got anything …

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5 Reasons Why Introverted Women are Not Being Promoted to Executive Leadership Teams

5 Reasons Why Introverted Women are Not Being Promoted to Executive Leadership Teams

Invariably the introverted women who are senior leaders that I coach, do what they do because they want to make a positive difference and an impact in their area of work. Over the years working with this particular group, I have come to identify some common reasons that prevent them getting those executive leadership promotions …

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Quiet Quitting: Prevention is Better than Cure

Over the past few weeks, the term ‘quiet quitting’ has been hitting the headlines. This is following this viral Tik Tok video from Zaid Khan that has been viewed over 3 million times: @zaidleppelin On quiet quitting #workreform ♬ original sound – ruby A search of the term ‘quiet quitting’ in Google returns 322,000,000 results, …

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Further Tips to Help You Make Your Next Career Move

Following my recent tips to ace your next job interview, as requested, here are some further tips to help you make your next career transition: Think about what you want at this stage of your life If you are feeling stuck with regards to what your next career move will be, I suggest you start by …

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The Benefits of Having Something to Look Forward to as Summer Comes to an End

As we come to the end of the summer, and you return to work if you have taken a summer break, you may be feeling demotivated at the thought of going back. The evenings are drawing in and it is starting to get darker earlier. Energy price increases, interest rate rises, talks of a recession, …

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Quiet Kids are Cool Too: Help Your Introverted Child to Thrive this Summer and Beyond

Introverted children can sometimes be misunderstood and misconceptions about introversion can lead some parents/carers/teachers to try and get the child to be something that they are not. Because they may be quieter than their extroverted peers and not as outgoing, introverted child can be mistaken as being shy or lacking confidence. Whilst this may be …

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