Coaching can be seen as a mechanism. A set-duration meeting between two people in which a framework, or curated space, is created for the problem-solving process of one of those people.
And this view of coaching is true enough, as far as it goes; the coaching session is indeed a core and vital part of…
“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...”
Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You'll Go!
Coaching is often confused with mentoring. Both, typically,…
We have been conditioned in our careers to value money and promotion above all other considerations. While this mindset might be right for some of us, it is not an approach to life that should be adopted blindly, without careful consideration, introspection and weighing of the other things that matter to us.
There is a…
Self care, like many aspects of working life, is not innate; it is a skill that needs to be nurtured as part of our professional development. Sadly, it is often also a skill that gets overlooked until we hit a crisis point.
When I first joined AWS I took an unusual tack in my interview.…
I’ve always been a diplomat.
I think it stems from childhood; as an eldest child in a sometimes fractious household, I often found myself cast in the role of mediator between arguing parents. It was my self-appointed job to calm things down, to find common ground, and to move things forward.
I took this…
