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How Has The Pandemic Impacted Why You Do What You Do?

June 7, 2021June 7, 2021
Jenfi22
Leadership, Uncategorized

During lockdown, I worked with a senior client who had navigated their organisation through some high stakes and high-profile potential risks; on the outside, they presented a positive picture yet inside, they felt discombobulated and were questioning whether or not

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What Has Been The Biggest Positive Change In Your Company Culture In the last 15 Months?

June 7, 2021June 7, 2021
Jenfi22
Leadership, Uncategorized

When asked “what has been the biggest positive change in your company culture in the last 15 months?” “Flexibility”, “empathy”, “more caring of each other”, “seeing people as people”, “mental health checks”, “having each other’s’ backs” and “togetherness” were some

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The Messy Middle – How Do We Work Together Moving Forward?

June 7, 2021June 7, 2021
Jenfi22
Leadership, Uncategorized

Work life feels messy. Yes, we can see the light at the end of the tunnel and are starting to cme back together in person, but what does the future hold for how we work together? In conversation with the

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The 3 T’s of Strategic Thinking

November 13, 2019November 14, 2019
Jenfi22
Leadership, Uncategorized

I love a coaching brief looking at how to help someone “develop their strategic thinking”, because in my twenties this was the feedback I was given too. At the time it felt like a doom-laden comment: no one could explain

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This is Personal: Do You Have The Personality To Be An Entrepreneur?

May 6, 2019October 10, 2019
Jenfi22
Enneagram, Entrepreneur, Leadership

Being an entrepreneur is personal. There is nowhere to hide, especially from your own personality. Who you are as a person is going to directly impact your success, right from the start. Your good, bad and the not-so-pretty traits will

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How To Own The Room By Viv Groskop

April 16, 2019October 10, 2019
Jenfi22
Career Development, Leadership, One Point

In How To Own The Room, Viv Groskop explores how you can show up and own your space and in a way that is true to you. You don’t have to be the funniest, most charismatic or wisest person to

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Avoiding The Negative Mind Games When You Are Not Working

January 2, 2019August 28, 2024
Jenfi22
Career Development

Your mind can be your worst enemy when you are looking for a new job. When people do not respond, or they tell you you are overqualified, and then in the next breadth underqualified… there is plenty going on that

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How To Get The Job You Want Whilst Pregnant

December 13, 2018September 13, 2019
Jenfi22
Career Development

If life creates two big changes at the same time – that is, you fall pregnant and at the same time made redundant, or your dream job comes up while you are expecting – how can you make it work?

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The Happy Manifesto – Make Your Organisation A Great Workplace by Henry Stewart

October 22, 2018October 10, 2019
Jenfi22
Leadership, One Point

This speedy, practical read is full of constructive ideas to help managers empower their people and create a happy workplace. The point that caught my attention was around the idea of preapproval. I don’t know a single person who wouldn’t

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One Point from “The Hard Thing About Hard Things” by Ben Horowitz

September 28, 2018October 10, 2019
Jenfi22
Entrepreneur, Leadership, One Point

Ben Horowitz has built and sold companies, and now is the co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz, the venture capital firm. This is my most recommended book of the moment – it’s packed full of great insight, whether you are an entrepreneur,

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What Is The Number One Skill Found To Be Lacking In Graduates?

January 8, 2017August 28, 2024
Jenfi22
Career Development

I coached a manager who was highly frustrated with a member of her team. They were inconsistent in their communication with her, and had a tendency to feed ‘new news’ straight to her boss. However, she thought he was very

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One Question To Ask Every 6 Months…

October 9, 2016August 28, 2024
Jenfi22
Career Development

  Why will you not get the job at your next interview? It’s crucial to ask this for four reasons: It forces you to be honest and, in doing so, identify what your real development goal is. It stretches you,

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5 Things To Do In September If You Are NOT Looking For A Job

September 11, 2016August 28, 2024
Jenfi22
Career Development

My Facebook page is currently filled with photos of cute children, looking smart in their new ‘you will grow into it soon’ uniforms, ready to start school. This past week has felt like going back to school for me too,

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10 Ideas To Future-Proof Your Career

September 6, 2016August 28, 2024
Jenfi22
Career Development

I have just read Lionel Shriver’s The Mandibles 2029-2047, about a family struggling to adapt to a catastrophic US economic meltdown in the future. It is imaginative… and pretty depressing. Hopefully none of us will face the same predicament, but

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The Advice Strategy To Securing A New Job

September 6, 2016August 28, 2024
Jenfi22
Career Development

How do you feel when a business contact you have not heard from in ages gets back in touch and asks: “Can we meet up for a coffee?” I always think: What do they want? Why are they getting in

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What Story Does Your CV Tell?

June 12, 2016July 4, 2024
Jenfi22
Career Development

   I couldn’t make any sense of my new client’s CV. In the 10 years since university, she had set up her own business, and worked for a charity, a consultancy and a major tech company. There were huge chunks

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Should I Stay Or Should I Go?

June 12, 2016July 4, 2024
Jenfi22
Career Development

This was the question on the minds of those who attended my Future Proofing Your Career workshops – is it time to leave my current job? It can be hard to work out the answer. There is no doubt that

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The One Interview Question You Should Always Ask

June 12, 2016July 5, 2024
Jenfi22
Career Development

The only question you can guarantee an interviewer is going to ask you is: Do you have any questions for me? Cue your opportunity to show what a smart, insightful individual you are, and why they would be foolish not

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Creativity For One

November 23, 2015August 14, 2024
Jenfi22
Career Development, Entrepreneur, Leadership

  Are you the star employee of your business? A team of one, with a job description spanning CEO to Mr/Ms Do-it-all. In fact, you are THE business – there is no one else. Founder, Soletrepreneur, Entrepreneur, Consultant are all

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The LinkedIn Experiment

September 11, 2015July 4, 2024
Jenfi22
Career Development

I am an ex marketer. I like to think I know about positioning, sales and digital marketing. I also like to think I put my old skills to good use in building my coaching business. To that end my LinkedIn

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The 5 Must Have Conversations When You Start A New Job

November 21, 2014July 4, 2024
Jenfi22
Career Development, Leadership, Management

A friend started a new senior job in the financial sector, she had been hired because of her FMCG experience and they were keen to inject the rigour and consumer focus of FMCG into the way they worked in marketing.

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How To Retain Millennials?

November 13, 2014August 28, 2024
Jenfi22
Millennials

So far I’ve discussed Millennial’s work needs, how companies can attract and develop their Millennial workers. Now we will focus on retention, which is important because the average time spent in a job by under-35s is less than 3 years,

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How To Develop Millennials?

November 13, 2014August 29, 2024
Jenfi22
Millennials

In previous posts, I’ve discussed the needs of Millennials, and how firms can better attract them to their organisation. In this post we are going to explore how to help develop them. We are pushing on an open door with

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How to Attract Millennials?

November 13, 2014August 29, 2024
Jenfi22
Millennials

In a previous blog post, I discussed the needs of Millennials: they’re Skill Seekers, who want Productive Experiences, to be Short Term Sensations, Society Contributors and Collaborative Connectors. I’d now like to discuss how businesses and recruiters can go about

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Inside the Mind of Millennials: Understanding Their Needs At Work

November 13, 2014August 29, 2024
Jenfi22
Millennials

Recently, a creative agency wooed and recruited a new Creative Director. However, when the CD started they found him inflexible in his approach, antisocial and militant in his music choices, to name but a few woes. After three months, he

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Leaving Is Never Goodbye

June 16, 2014July 4, 2024
Jenfi22
Career Development

There are many reasons for leaving a job, perhaps it is a break for freedom or you have a fabulous new role, but in the small world of work it is unlikely to be a final goodbye and more a

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Thank You

August 8, 2013August 29, 2024
Jenfi22
Leadership

I sadly found out a very dear man who I worked for has died recently after a long illness. It struck me the impact we can have on each other without ever realizing it. This is as true in our

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Company Values What’s The Point?

August 8, 2013August 28, 2024
Jenfi22
Company Values, Leadership, Management

I had a conversation this week about company values, which went along the lines of “what’s the point?” Now this leader leads a large organization and the amount of new business and people awards they win shows how well it

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The Thinking Business

June 22, 2013October 10, 2019
Jenfi22
Career Development, Leadership, Management

We are all in the thinking business. The value we add to the business is in our thinking.  As leaders we need to actively encourage and care for our teams’ thinking. How much of your time is spent nurturing and

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The Failure Director

June 22, 2013October 10, 2019
Jenfi22
Career Development, Leadership, Management

No one wants the role of Failure Director; leading your team and business towards failure. Of course we don’t want to fail at work, however failure is important. We need to understand the role it plays and as leaders be

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