13 Ways to Boost Your Career Success this Year
Do you dream of a leadership role but you haven’t been spotted yet? Research has shown that women typically work really hard at their jobs expecting their hard work to be noticed and the promotions to follow. Sadly, that is not how it works. Your headteacher is not responsible for your career, you are. Don’t […]
Relationships, relationships, relationships.
Many of us will relate to the experience of underachieving because we didn’t like the teacher. And we probably know students whose grades dipped when they didn’t like their new teacher. Instinctively, most teachers know that even with the best lesson plan in the world, if the students don’t like the teacher or the teacher […]
The Three Rs for Stressed Teachers to Rejuvenate
Perhaps you were one of many teachers who spent your first week of the holidays recovering from the stress of the year – sleeping late, flopping about all day, staring at your to-do list you’ve saved up all year, re-starting your book or movie as you hadn’t taken anything in, even not wanting to go […]
Change your language and change their thinking
Our language both reflects our thinking and affects our thinking. By changing our language we can change our own thinking as well as the thinking of those we lead and we can influence how people around us perceive us. The language we use becomes associated with us and more importantly for a leader reflect qualities […]
Should I ‘Yes’ or Should I ‘No’ Now? Tips to Avoid the Yes Trap.
Do you say Yes too much or too little? Getting the balance right is key to your career success. Perhaps you say Yes to everything that people ask you out of habit, because you’re a ‘giver’ and because you feel uncomfortable saying No. And you end up permanently exhausted meeting everyone else’s needs. Or perhaps […]
Is your stress due to a toxic school?
When thinking about returning to school creates a feeling of dread that’s deeper than Monday morning blues, when the thought of walking back through the gates converts into feeling ill or depressed, or if all confidence in your ability to do the job has been sapped out of you, it could be a case of […]
Is your weight impacting your income?
Did you know that people judge others’ competence based on their weight? And that affects whether they hire and how much they pay. Shocking, isn’t it? And this bias is mostly felt by women who are already battling that biased glass ceiling. First impressions really do count We are bombarded with images of what successful […]
Sleep your Way to Success
Deadlines. Targets. Performance data. Monitoring. So many of us go without sleep during the week, work late into the night or into the small hours or even work until it’s time to get up, and therefore going without any sleep at all, just to make sure everything’s done for the next day, so we’re not […]
Widening Waistline? Befuddled Brain? It could be Chronic Stress.
Some of us think we have everything under control and others of us feel like we’re about to snap. We all respond to stressors differently. We may know we stress eat or perhaps we think we don’t eat ‘that much’ and even exercise yet we keep putting on weight. The problem for both may still […]