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The 11 Cognitive Biases your Career Coach Wants You To See
Being aware of cognitive biases is an important first step in shining light on unconscious parts of our thinking, allowing us to bring more awareness and cognition to important questions, especially those regarding other people. When working with a job coach, much of the process will shed light on how these biases impact the success of your job search.
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Slaying the Dragon: Facing Resistance Like a Pro
So how do we overcome resistance and achieve what we were put on this Earth to do?
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Presence, the greatest gift a coach can give you
Our minds change our bodies, says Cuddy, but can our bodies change our minds? Her TED talk answers this question by showing that the physical assumption of high or low power poses significantly impact an individual’s sense of what is possible.
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One question and one answer critical to success
It’s no revelation that the pressures and expectations of 21st Century life are growing increasingly difficult to manage. The competition for our attention is overwhelming at times, and poor management of mental, emotional and physical resources can sabotage attempts to achieve the success we deserve.
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The Leadership Coach
While a life coach works with a broad array of topics related to many different areas of a client’s life, a leadership coach, as the name suggests, works directly with topics related to individual’s role as a leader.
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The Mentor
The original Mentor was the ‘wise and trusted counselor’ of Homer’s Odyssey, but the role of mentor has been around since long before Ancient Greek times. In its general sense a mentor describes someone who is willing and able to pass on their experience and guidance to someone who is learning the ropes.
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The Life Coach
A life coach reflects back to you, supports you, challenges you, motivates you and guides you, but the process is always yours. What is almost always revealed in a successful coaching programme is that you had the answers all along, the life coach just helped you access them.
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The Health Coach
Where all coaches are interested in helping clients shift limiting patterns in order to achieve their goals, health coaches do so by focusing specifically on health and wellness. Their work is not on principle divergent from the work provided by doctors and other healthcare professionals, but the approach of a health coach is often quite different from the dominant approach of the medical industry and national healthcare systems.
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The Career Coach
For most of us, our work will account for a significant portion of our time on this planet, second only to sleep. It seems critical, then, that we should find value and meaning, even joy, in the work we do. Sadly, the well-known truth is that most people instead find themselves going through the motions, occupied in jobs that pay the rent but little else.
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How the right work can help you find your purpose
Despite the endless challenges of unifying individuals into a cohesive whole, organizations are capable of achieving significantly more than any single person.
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Cultivating agility in the face of exponential change
Anxiety is on the rise. The World Health Organisation calls it an epidemic, reporting a more-than-50% rise in anxiety and depression between 1990 and 2013. Though these feelings are complex in nature and cause, it is intuitive that the rise in anxiety is fueled by a growing sense of overwhelm in the face of escalating change and complexity.
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Do you have these 10 qualities of mindful leadership
What defines a strong and connected leader? Science suggests it has something to do with the human brain.
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Why energy management is key to successful leadership
It has never been more important for leaders to practice effective energy management – not just for themselves, but for the benefit of everyone they impact.
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How to use your personality type to make better decisions
One of the reasons that Frozen is the most successful animated movie of all time is that its characters are each significantly shifted by their experiences, drawing on courage to access new, previously unseen aspects of themselves.
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Make your brainwaves count
With the help of radically new technologies, neuroscience has taken interstellar leaps forward in the last few decades, with the result that we are now able to see what happens when people are in different states of consciousness. And brainwaves are the key.
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Is a new career part of your hero's journey
Understanding the patterns of the Hero’s Journey affords a unique perspective on one’s own life experience, especially when one feels stuck in a rut.
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Why your inner critic is your worst enemy
Overcoming the inner critic and its seeds of self-doubt is one of the biggest challenges on the path to self-development, and one of the earliest you’ll encounter. So, what can be done about it? Here are 3 suggestions.
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Does internet coaching really work
There are some fairly universal pros and cons to moving your coaching online.
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Confidence – Stop Looking and Start Acting
Confidence isn’t something that you suddenly feel, it accumulates over time with practice – constantly being maintained, stretched and repeated (but it gets a lot easier the more you practice). Some days you might fail. That’s ok, it’s all part of the process of learning. The good news is that each new day is a fresh start.
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Why do you work?
Here are some suggestions if you find yourself seeking work that will pay you well enough and provide you with meaning.
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