Barefoot Coaches' Channel

A podcast for people who struggle to write about themselves and want to tell a better story but don’t know where to start.

There are so many benefits to remote working; for example, no commute, more flexibility in what you wear and potentially fewer interruptions. However, the lines between work and home are blurring in different ways bringing a whole new set of challenges.

Change is so strange, we just want it to be normal

Watching the TV programme “Eat well, spend less,” I was fascinated by the way we can easily get into hard to break habits. Living on auto-pilot, filling the supermarket trolley with items that “we always buy” without really thinking, I guess that can also be said of a lot of things we do in life.

Unfortunately we are seeing an increase in the number of jobs being made redundant and will continue to do so over the coming months. Just because something is commonplace and “happening to everyone” doesn’t mean it’s any easier to deal with.

How busy are you?

Who is the most powerful person you know, who would be willing to vouch for your work and help you secure a promotion?

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.

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.