Have you found a need to restructure your organisation lately? There’s a lot of it going on. There are a number of reasons why you would undertake this daunting task but the two big one’s are: 1. Cut costs (possibly due to a downturn in business) 2. Changing the way to go to market (new [...]
Have you been offered a promotion? Is it taking you out of your technical area into leadership management? ......not so fast..... Have you actually considered what this means and looks like? You have fantastic technical skills, you’re the number one worker in your team or group and you’ve been offered the role of supervisor, team [...]
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 [...]
One of the things I’m hearing more and more from people as they move into their 50’s is the phrase “I didn’t plan for my life to turn out like this”. In some cases this is a valid observation, bad luck or some interaction out of their control has intercepted their plans and [...]
Between 1946 and 1965, 5.5 million people were born in Australia, this is the Baby Boomer demography. That means that this year the first of that group are 72 years old and will be or are already, in a state of requiring aged care support. This represents over 20% of the current population (24 Million) [...]
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 [...]
At Career Life Transitions we are constantly in conversation with people searching for work and people searching for people who want work. Of late there are a number of interesting trends we’ve noticed and one is the change in the nature of the working structure. Baby boomers are now moving into retirement and while they [...]
Dr Susan Roberts says: