self-employment

Building strong personal career paths – do you have a case study to share?

Readers of my blogs will know that I am an avid reader.  I’ve just made my way through ‘Do more great work’ by Michael Bungay Stanier.  It’s a misleadingly small book!  It looks small, and from the outside could be mistaken as the kind of book that you can wiz through.  But it’s taken me …

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Aptitude, Attitude, Plenitude and Servitude – key assets for strong team members and the self-employed

Continuing on my voyage of discovery as a self-employed consultant seeking to help teams become not only more effective but great at what they do, I’m learning so much from the people I meet as well as the books I’m reading. Special thanks to Simon Brooks of Contacts4Business for starting me on this train of …

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Is the key to empowerment to adopt a self-employed attitude?

One of the preoccupations in large organisations is how to encourage individuals to be more ‘self-empowered’.  In the words of one of my HR colleagues, it can become a bit of an oxymoron if employees choose not to be, whilst employers are telling them to be… Having started on my journey of being self-employed whilst …

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(A consultant’s) Life is like a game of Rummy..

Rummy is one of our favourite family card games.  For those not familiar with it this site might help http://www.pagat.com/rummy/rummy.html. My husband and I were mulling over this at breakfast today.  To be effective as a consultant you need to be able to spot the opportunities that might ‘win’: you might be lucky enough to …

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