Transitions happen to all of us in the course of our careers: we move company, get promoted, gain a new boss, start our own business, . . . Indeed today it's rare to have long period of stability.
Transitions almost always provide both challenges and opportunities. The challenge usually lies in getting to grips with whatever is new and dealing with a flood of new information and experience. The opportunity is to step into a new space in our lives, to re-invent ourselves to make the most of the future.
In my work as a coach I specialise in supporting my clients through their transitions.
| Workshops |
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| Professional Development |
In my coaching I'm often asked how clients can understand more about this, or develop a skill in that. Some of the answers are very personal, others are more generally valuable and you'll find a selection here.
If you'd like to know about something that's not covered here then please ask.
Bob Janes, 2007
Shelle Rose Charvet – The Macho Test Trying to get your ideas across to a macho person is tough. They know everything, they're perfect and nothing is their fault. So how do you break though the macho wall? With the macho test. | |
A lunch-time speech to Wanstead Rotary Club I gather it’s traditional to say thanks for lunch before I speak, just in case I over-run my allotted 15, 16 or 17 minutes and you’ve all left before I finish. So, thank you. My colleague, Frank Tijou was due to speak to you today. Instead he is now somewhere over Newfoundland on his way to a holiday in Boston and Cape Cod. He tells me that it’s a coincidence that he, Hillary and Bill Clinton will all be there together – but then Frank has never been known to miss a consulting opportunity. In my mind’s eye I can hear him saying that all that’s needed is a little process design . . .
| Bob Janes The term feedback is taken from systems design where it means that we take some information and literally feed it back into the process. The classic example is a thermostat, a switch that turns the heating on or off. To work usefully it needs to ‘know’ what the temperature in the room is. There are three really important things about this: It needs the information pretty promptly – knowing the temperature six weeks ago is interesting but not useful. It needs relevant information – knowing the temperature right now in Paraguay isn’t useful. And it needs to know what to do with the information – turning the heating on when the temperature is high probably isn’t what is wanted. |
One of my clients asked me for some suggestions to improve her public speaking skills. She was already a competent presenter but wanted to become a more professional communicator to large audiences. Bob Janes, 2007 | |
| Career Path Appreciation |
Career Path Appreciation is a model of career development that was devised by Professor Gillian Stamp at BIOSS, Brunel University. It is a powerful and effective tool for helping people gain insight into their personal career paths and those of others.
Introduction:This report is offered as a contribution to your work of stopping, taking stock and asking what and where next. You will recall that the idea behind an Appreciation is that - for the mutual benefit of the person and the organisation - there should be as good a match as possible between the person’s capability and the responsibilities with which they are entrusted. When this balance prevails, the person experiences a flow of energy connecting him to his work and sustaining him. Although we were looking at this balance in the context of your present role, our prime purpose was to understand more about your capability in its own terms. By ‘capability’ we mean the way you exercise judgement in engaging with the uncertainty of making decisions; in short, what you do when you don’t know what to do. |
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