• Working with your strengths is empowering and motivating - it boosts your confidence knowing what skills, ability and personality strengths you have.
• Understanding your strengths also enables you to consider areas for development - what skills and behaviours would you like to develop in order to operate at your best and obtain the roles you desire?
• We will help you get focussed and create a compelling CV highlighting your strengths and enable you to talk confidently and passionately at interview.

Through coaching we can discover the optimum factors for you to operate at your best.  Factors include:

• whether you work best alone or with a large team
• understanding whether you are more task, people or thought focussed
• what strengths you are using when you operate at your best
• environmental factors

Knowing these factors can help you ensure they are present as often as possible in your working life and can help you choose the right role for you.

Raising awareness of your own preferred communication style helps you to understand that others may be different - and therefore flexing your style to suit them can help you be better understood.

• The DISC profile will provide you with a wealth of information on your preferred communication style, and how to communicate with other styles for the best outcomes
• Learn the 8 different influencing styles and how to flex your own preferred style
• Learn how to actively listen so that you seek first to understand and then be understood
• Learn how to see things from others perspectives - giving you flexibility in your communication

• If we are self aware about our personal behaviours, strengths and personality we will have the information needed to focus on areas for development - there is always room for improvement, no matter who we are!
• By looking at strengths in skills and abilities, you can discover areas that are undeveloped or underused.  Growing those areas which are important in your work or personal life can bring huge benefits to your career and wellbeing.
• In order to be self aware we need to use emotional intelligence (EQ) - so if this is lacking in certain areas, or you have a blind spot, we can help you build your EQ using the ECR psychometric where appropriate.

Coaching to get you ready to return to work can focus on the following areas:

CONFIDENCE

• The ability to feel calm and in control at interview
• The knowledge of your strengths and how to create a compelling CV
• The positivity to speak about your strengths passionately

SELF AWARENESS

• Do you know what you want to be, do and have? 
• What are your blind spots and what skills or behaviours do you need to acquire or develop?
• Who are you and what factors enable you to operate at your best?

GOAL SETTING

• Create an action plan
• Create bite size steps to enable you to move forward without feeling overwhelmed
• Feel positive about taking action, and lose any guilt about returning to work as a mum

Using the Morrisby Profile, we have helped hundreds of students from aged 15 upwards make an informed decision about their A levels and Higher Education choices based on their interests, abilities and personality.

If you are aged over 18 we can combine this with a personality psychometric, such as 15FQ+ which will add depth to your understanding of who you are and what careers might suit you best.

Please click here for more information about the Morrisby Profile.

Being highly self-critical, putting negative labels on yourself, and making sweeping generalisations about yourself and your abilities is unhelpful and can lead to difficulties in work and your personal life.

• Understand that your negative self-evaluations will lead to certain types of unhelpful behaviours and emotions.
• Start to overcome negative self-evaluations by using tools to dispute them.
• Identify your negative self-evaluations, challenge your negative self-evaluations, and develop more balanced self-evaluations.

• Learning self control helps you make better choices and helps you respond with appropriate behaviours.  
• Understand how your brain works so that you can have control over your reactions.
• Following Dr Steve Peters "Chimp Paradox" tools as a basis for coaching to remain calm and choose control we will help you to make positive behaviour changes so that you think rationally before taking action and remain calm in stressful situations.

• What is stress?  It is the response we have when we can no longer cope with the amout of pressure placed on us. Understanding our body's response to stress will help us recognise when we and those around us are stressed.
• The stress hormone, cortisol, has negative effects on health when too much of it is in our body for a long period of time - so learning to build resilience is key.
• Resilience is the ability to bounce back from setbacks - building resilience is about learning positivity and optimism, learning to solve problems creatively and having self efficacy - i.e. the belief that you are in charge of your outcomes as well as looking after your health and fitness.
• We can all build greater resiliency and this will have enormous benefits at both work and in our personal lives.

Are you feeling stressed due to procrastination?  As you get more and more behind with tasks so they pile up and intensify, the more stressed you become.  If procrastination is severe it can stop you doing things you are capable of. Beating procrastination can have huge positive impacts for your personal and work life.  We can help with a variety of coaching methods:

• identify your triggers for procrastination
• understand what you need to change and what you need to keep to stop procrastinating
• clarify your purpose, vision and values.
• develop strategies that enable you to turn intentions into positive action and get things done!
• identify what is important, urgent and how to manage your time effectively
• learn what motivates you and when you operate at your best

Worry tends to be about a lack of control, uncertainty in decisions and an unknown future.  Do you recognise the following?

• Chain of thoughts or images which spirals out of control
• Catastrophising
• Lack of control over repetitive bad thoughts
• Tendency to think things are going to get worse

Worry is a normal every day process, which you cannot eliminate completely, but learning to reduce worry and manage your thoughts more positively will help you feel more in control.

• Understand the difference between communicating passively, aggressively and assertively.
• Consider the effects of not being assertive on your self esteem.
• Develop knowledge of situations in which you would like to be more assertive – at work, at home, in public and learn techniques for assertiveness.
• Learn how to change your mindset for assertiveness.

• Identify the areas of your life impacted by perfectionism.
• Consider unrelenting high standards and how these keep perfectionism going in a vicious cycle.
• Weigh up the pros and cons of loosening up your unrelenting high standards.
• Challenge your perfectionism behaviours and perfectionist thoughts and develop healthier rules and assumptions.
• Understand the impact of your over-evaluation of achievement and your perfectionism mindset, the way you view yourself and the world.

• You may not think you have a personal brand, but odds are, others see you as a certain type of person. Is that the person you want to be seen as? If not, what would you like to change to be seen as differently? Do you always want to be seen in the same way, or to be different in different circumstances?
• Your personal style is about the way you communicate, your preference for people or tasks, whether you are more outgoing or reserved, whether you prefer the big picture or the detail, whether you prefer to listen or talk, whether you are faster or slower paced, what motivates you and what values are important to you.
• Using DISC and an appropriate personality profile such as MBTI or 15FQ+ can provide you with the inside knowledge of who you are and how you are seen by others and how to flex your style to suit different situations.

• We all have huge numbers of choices to make every day - from what to wear, to what to eat and a million other decisions in between.  For those who find these small decisions hard to make we can help you with some techniques to make forced choices and learn that if a decision doesn't fulfil your expectations, it is not necessarily a bad decision.
• For more important decisions in life or work, using certain strategies will enable you to debate the decision rationally and ensure you have thought through what is important to you before making the decision.
• Most importantly, learn that you do not need to debate the decision to infinity and beyond - sometimes we just have to make the best decision we can with the resources we have available at the time.

• Smoking, drinking, weight loss, exercise and sport are the major areas where people say they would like to make a change - but we all know it doesn't always happen.  
• Understanding the stages of behaviour change and what will get you motivated and through threshold to make the change could help you into action.
• Other behaviours can be just as difficult to change if we don't know what will get us through the barrier, so a strategy for getting through threshold as well as retraining your brain and practising new behaviours helps reinforce the change.