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Blog Entries
Are your always correcting your children’s mistakes?
Ollie Coach, Belinda Wells, explains why it’s so important for your child to make mistakes so that they learn to make their own decisions, and which choices are good or bad?
Which characters, real or fictional, do you find yourself drawn to?
Ollie Coach, Claire Robertson, explores why many of us are drawn to the outliers in society, the sensitive, artistic souls who don’t quite fit in, determinedly ploughing their own furrow even when they’re not entirely sure who they are or what they want, but determined to live life on their terms.
Want to get promoted? 5 tips to ensure the right people know you
In my last role in a FTSE100 company, I would frequently find employees I hadn’t met scheduling time in my diary – on the pretext of “I’m going to be in your location, it would be great to meet” – but always it was with the purpose of raising their visibility and trying to impress me.
Keep it Happy – Let in the Light!
Deborah Stephenson, trainee Ollie Coach, reflects on how we also exist in the undefined place that is our mind, built on the abstract bricks of meaning and understanding, formed by each experience, belief and feeling we have from the moment we are born.
Are Your Aspirations Hindering Your Child?
Ollie Coach, Belinda Wells asks “Are you guilty of encouraging your child to do things you wanted to do, but didn’t get the opportunity to pursue in your childhood?”
Bad Boy Billionaires: India (Netflix); A Psychological Review
A Psychological Review of Bad Boy Billionaires (Netflix) The new Netflix series starts off featuring the “King of Good Times”, Vijay Mallya. He is an Indian entrepreneur who has lived a lavish playboy life style. Lionel Ritchie sang at his fiftieth birthday, and Enrique Iglesias sang at his sixtieth. He has been married three times, […]
The Power of Music!
Ollie Coach, Lynne Collins, reflects on how music can take you right back to an event in a heart beat.
WHY focusing on your (self-)confidence matters during a transition?
It’s natural to lose self-confidence after a health or job-loss crisis. You are facing unchartered territory and it can be really scary. The same goes for when you feel stuck in a job / career that no longer challenges you or allows you to grow.
How to build a strong trusting work environment
Life is full of FUD right now – Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt – due to the global pandemic. It is critical to engender a work culture in which people feel safe sharing views, new methods of working and ideas for dealing with change.
