We all know that working as a coherent team can add extra value and impetus to a project. Collaboration and delegation are two important...

Did you know that your questions are more important than your answers when on interview? “I was disappointed I was not offered the job...

When we read in the job description that the candidate needs ‘excellent communication skills’ we think, “What a shame. That rules me out as I’m more on the quiet, introvert scale.” Very often we interpret someone with good communication skills as one who is the life and soul of the party who can confidently stand up in front of people and talk spontaneously about most subjects. Communication skills – what does it mean? From my experience of interpreting job descriptions more

Consider theses scenarios. You are in a lecture and one of the students constantly interrupts the lecturer to contest what they are saying. Their motivation can be twofold: they are making a verbal pose. They are demonstrating their intelligence by asking what they consider to be sophisticated questions. Or they are negative in their thinking construct and contending the lecturer’s argument or facts. With either scenario the student learns little from the lecture and can be a

Today’s commercial environment is dominated by technology. The big picture priority  is out and the detail is in. Marketing has changed its focus from people centric one-to-one interaction to concentrating on analysis as the dominant underwriter for business planning. SEO AWS and API are now centre stage and foundational to developing future strategy. Leaders must get very involved and interrogate the data. Hands-off is now hands-on. Leading from the front is now leading from

what makes me happy @ work is surprisingly more determined by my personality than the situation. I was listening to a radio programme and the topic for panel discussion was what are the factors which make people happy at work? You can imagine how frustrated I felt as the panellists proceeded to talk about employees not as individuals but as groups of people with similar behaviours. But we know that is not the case. We know that Clare always remembers birthdays. She buys the c

There is no one optimum leadership style as it will always be determined by the unique and individual factors of time, situation and circumstances. Leaders must think audience. Their composition and their expectations. Good leadership can only be defined in its application context rather than a role model with an amazing suite of skills. Is good leadership then the domain of the person or the situation? Leadership incorporates two factors. The first one is you must empathise

Please provide the text you would like me to summarize. When I am coaching candidates on stress management, firstly I identify their personality working type and use this vital information to alleviate their vulnerability. Most of us experience an element of stress in our working lives. Its intensity will vary and be mainly dependent on the following causal factors: your personality type, your work performance and environment, and your personal circumstances Having a better u

My name is John Lowe from Regent Coaching and I am a specialist in recruitment interviews and career coaching. I have assessed over 30000 candidates and here are my top interview tips to incorporate and myths to avoid. Myth:  make sure you establish a good rapport with the interviewers Tip:  the interviewer’s focus is on whether you can do the job rather than whether you are going to be their new friend. Myth:  Interviews are like question time. The more questions I answer co

The rate of change in the modern commercial environment means we may cross a number of career boundaries during our working life. We need to be able to adapt to this rate of change and adjust to different work situations and this website will show you how to prepare for today's job market. jobcoach.org.uk As a headhunter I have found that candidates attitude to change was one of the most determinant of success. We are familiar with the expression ' bad attitude ' But embracin

This is an exciting subject to write about. The point of an interview is to get the job. A really good performance on interview will...

The short termism endemic in today’s working environment has a direct influence on the nature of employment contracts. The dominance of technology has created a modus operandi where workflows are more frequently being encased in projects. This means that tasks become time definitional. This then also means that if you are an organisation with a high propensity for project related work you will employ staff on a contract basis. When the new checkpoint firewall is up and runnin