16 ways to improve your work life balance
Part 1 of a post looking at 16 ways of how you can improve your work life balance.
The Ultimate Guide to Switching Off When You’re On Holiday
Holidays should be relaxing – a welcome break from your busy work schedule. And yet, many of us waste them worrying about deadlines, responding to emails and returning calls that could quite honestly wait. So, in a bid to help you break these bad habits, we’re going to teach you how to switch off from…
How to Deal with Overwhelm: 5 Effective Strategies
We all feel overwhelmed from time to time. How do you manage your overwhelm whilst maintaining your performance at work? Throughout this article, we will discuss how to deal with feeling overwhelmed whilst continuing to perform in high-pressure industries such as law, accounting and consultancy. How to deal with feeling overwhelmed The first lesson in…
How to properly switch off from work at the weekend
We would all love to know how to switch off from work the second the clock strikes five or six on a Friday evening. Yet, for many of us, it feels like an impossibility. Often, we view our weekends as a time to catch up and deal with overflow rather than time off. Yet, whilst…
9 ways to get noticed at work (& still make friends & influence people)
How can you get noticed at work without being seen as “showing off”? It’s a fine line between being confident about your strengths and being perceived as arrogant. So, what’s the right way to get noticed at work, to make your partners aware of your many strengths, without rubbing colleagues up the wrong way? Here…
3 ways your management skills are impacting your personal effectiveness
When people talk about personal effectiveness, everyone automatically assumes it is about how you personally manage and organise your workflow. Actually, personal effectiveness is as much about the people around you, and how you interact with them, as it is about your personal organisation. I can lecture you until I am blue in the face…
This is the secret to having it all: A career AND a family
The accepted wisdom, especially if you are working in a london city law firm, is you can’t make partner if you are female and want to have kids. In this article I discuss how you can have both – partnership AND motherhood. How to have it all: Make partner AND have a young family The…
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Is this common mistake jeopardising your performance at work?
I had been forewarned that my coaching client was likely to be emotional in our coaching session. What I didn’t expect was for the tears to start rolling from the start of our conversation. I was reminded of this coaching session recently. I was having one of those days. You know, the ones that happen…
Your first 90 days in the job – why is this so important to your work/life balance?
Over the last few months I have been delivering a couple of events around the topic of ‘how to have it all – partnership and a life’ or if you were at the ACCA autumn update, ‘how to have it all – a career and a life’. In this talk we do talk about how…
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Why is regularly ‘feeding your soul’ so important to making partner?
If you are going to work at peak performance, then you need to think differently about your health and well-being. Or as Chris William’s, performance coach to partners in the magic circle and Big 4, puts it, “Alternative Asset Management”. Most of us will find ourselves working at full stretch on the journey to get…
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