Articles by Jenny Williams
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
Read moreI 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
Read moreThis 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
Read moreThe 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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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
Read moreI 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
Read moreA 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.
Read moreThere 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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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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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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Wouldn’t that be great? If only we were all born with a personalised user manual for each of our minds. A unique guide to help us understand why we think, feel and behave the way we do. It would make
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On a scale of 1 to 10 (with 10 being high) how weird are you? Do you catch yourself behaving in a certain way and want to shout “why?” Or perhaps there are things you know to be true about
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We wait; perhaps for the light bulb or the perfect moment; but it never comes as far making a career change happen. Rarely are there light bulbs or perfect moments to change careers. Instead the only moment we have is
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It is the question people become stuck with; wondering if and when they should start a new career. They can become frozen, when the onus becomes on finding the “right” answer. Fear sets in, it might be the wrong move
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