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Career Coaching vs Career Design Coaching: What’s the Difference? 

What’s the difference between career coaching and career design coaching?

While career coaching often focuses on helping you answer “What should I do next?”, career design takes a bigger-picture approach, helping you understand what you want, explore possibilities, test ideas and create a career by design, not by default.

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The Parental progress paradox

Having children is a superpower.
It gives us more drive to provide them with the best life possible.
At the same time, having children can take away our time and energy to be able to do these things.
Enter The Parental Paradox.

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After You're Gone: CV vs Eulogy Virtues

Do you want your eulogy to read like a list of your skills or accomplishments, or, to be what you meant to the people around you?

This article explores the concept of CV Virtues vs Eulogy Virtues and how to balance them in your life.

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travelling The middle way

The middle has a reputation problem:

Middle management, the middle child, mid-life crisis.

This article explores why the place you've been told to avoid might be exactly where you need to be.

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The comfort trap

Is being comfortable really helping you, or is it holding you back?

Do you know what you should be doing, but your actions aren’t aligned?

If you step into discomfort, that’s where the real growth lies.

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Beating the Busyness Trap

Days full meetings?
All your time spent replying to emails and IM’s?
You may not be as productive as you think you are.
You may be caught in the Busyness Trap.
Learn how to escape in this article.

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Leadership isn’t what you think it is

What is leadership really?
Is it approving someone’s holiday requests or having a job that has direct reports?
Maybe it’s something deeper than that, that everyone can demonstrate, regardless of their job title.

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