Heidi Haywood
Are we de-skilling ourselves?
My latest ride is something else. The first time I drove it out the driveway it turned the lights and fog thingies on all by itself, it whipped the windscreen wipers on at the first sign of a bit of rain (scaring the begeezus out of me in the process as I was wondering what […]
Relationship perspectives
Did the earth move for you too last week? For those of you not in Victoria, we experienced an earthquake on Tuesday night, in Melbourne! It was sizable for us novice earthquakers (5.3 on the richter scale) & lasted around a minute. But what was of note for me was witnessing how we all really […]
Universally accepted experts
How totally cool – YOU could be listed on a new “premier website of Global Experts” specifically designed for the journalist community to interview world-leading folk on all manner of topics. Which could look like this: Career Doldrums……Want More……Call 1800HeidiH I was thinking, if I was working on that project from day 1 in an […]
I admire the Chinese Government
I was at a meeting earlier this week and we were asked what did we think about the Oz Govm’t – we had 6 seconds to share, and basically those 6 seconds made it very clear on what each individual thought about politics here in Oz. Succinctly. It’s amazing what beliefs come out of your […]
No second draft unless there is a first
Many of my career coaching clients agonize over their CV. It can’t feel too good for them, nor does it look pretty. I know this feeling all too well after my own CV send-out attempts in the past. One of the first steps in my coaching process with career focused clients is to ask for […]
The comparison game
I’ve just experienced 2 weeks away of intense training so as I could learn, drill & now offer greater distinctions to my clients ~ thereby saving them some learnings and such a long time away from home (those of us on the course who found it hard to explain to others outside of the training […]
Look for the gaps, rather than the obstacles
Weekend adventures were had recently at a Defensive Driving Course. Part of the day is spent inside learning some facts and figures when it comes to road safety and the other part of the day you get to put this new knowledge into action under simulated ‘dangerous situations’ – a.k.a. swerving around lot’s of witches […]
Fresh is best
Freezers come with ‘suggestion guides’. Yup, apparently there is a swag of research that has been done on when is too long to have something in your freezer. And it’s slightly different for each food group depending on how the item lived pre-freezing, the water content at the time of being frozen and other stuff […]
Who or What is your career Great Aunt Martha?
A story from an amazing coach, Brian Tracy, is the inspiration for today’s blog, which runs along these lines: An American couple in their early 30’s, with a young family and a large mortgage had a Great Aunt called Martha. Now, G.Auntie was fond of receiving mail from their kids, joining the family for family […]
Perceived future threats vs. actual reality
I had a really interesting conversation with my partner last week, which revolved around the topic of perceived future threats vs. actual reality. He just started back at Uni doing a post-grad course in Math (a fact that interests me – in Australia you can receive ‘free funding’ for almost any course up to the […]
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