The 3Rs: Redundancy, Reinvention, and Redirection

Career Management

Let me tell you about the first time that I was made redundant. For about 10 years, I’d been working hard in the actuarial field and financial services industry. Yes, numbers. Snooze. But I got sick. Something called Sarcoidosis. It’s when abnormal nodules infiltrate...

6 Tips for Coping with Redundancy

Career Planning, Job Seeking, Leadership Coaching

A VUCA World Due to the coronavirus pandemic, governments, organisations and individuals have been challenged to cope in a VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous) world. Many executives, managers and professionals have experienced increased job insecurity...

Do you know where you’re going to?

Career Planning, Job Seeking, Leadership Coaching

So, 2021 has arrived! Hopefully you’ve had a break, relaxed, spent time with family and friends, and participated in some of your favourite (perhaps frivolous) activities. You may even feel that you have extracted yourself from your normal day-to-day...

Documenting Your 2020 COVID-19 Achievements

Career Planning, Job Seeking, Leadership Coaching

In my last article, So this is Christmas and what have you done?, I encouraged you not to write off and forget 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic introduced significant volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity to our working lives. In another sense, it has presented...

So this is Christmas and what have you done?

Career Planning, Job Seeking, Leadership Coaching

  2020 has been a really tough year due to COVID-19. Nearly all aspects of our lives have been disrupted…social, family, study, leisure and work. Chances are that you are exhausted, frustrated and willing yourself to get across the 2020 finish line. Hopeful...