Redundancy at 50. It’s not as bad as you think.
This year I turn 49. I’m doing work that I am really passionate about but still find myself having the inevitable thoughts that happen around every decade birthday. "Am I where I thought I would [...]
Don’t Ignore Mentoring (Ask us how)
Whilst we do a lot of coaching for development at CLT, we also strongly recommend establishing a mentoring program within your business. There are some major differences between mentoring and coaching, and these differences make [...]
Change – Welcome or unwelcome, any change comes with challenge
I was speaking to a good friend of mine the other day about the nature of change and she raised an interesting scenario. When an employee in her organisation was put into a better position, [...]
Leadership: Behaviour Vs Intention
Several years ago, I was chatting to Barry, my coach and mentor. At the time, I was particularly aggrieved at the behaviours of one of my peers. I complained that this person’s actions were clearly [...]
Is Middle Management Holding your Business Back?
Our coaching spans all levels of organisations and I was working with a ‘Middle Manager’ the other day and the question came up, what is middle management – what is the role? It’s an interesting [...]
Restructure – Funeral or Celebration?
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 [...]
5 Things to Consider Before Taking a Promotion
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 [...]
Coaching Q&A
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 [...]
Why Use a Coach?
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. [...]
Conflict Resolution: Why should I take the first steps?
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 [...]
Dr Susan Roberts says: