Small Changes can have a Big Impact
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How to quieten your inner critic
How to quieten your inner critic and nurture your inner guru Unkind thinking does not motivate, in fact quite the opposite. When you change your …
Avoid Teacher Burnout
Break these 10 habits to stop your stress Reducing overwhelm prevents stress and will keep your teaching leadership dreams alive. These 10 thinking patterns could …
Dare to put your head above the parapet
Six ways to build your confidence to self-promote Although it feels uncomfortable at first, learning to self-promote in a way that feels authentic will help …
Ditch the Language of Doubt and Feel More Confident
Our words can sabotage our success and undermine our confidence. Without thinking, we can say things that give the wrong impression or repeatedly teach ourselves …
Mindset Tips for Supply Teachers
Working as a supply teacher is a great joy as you get to meet so many young people and experience so many different school cultures. …
Make your dream come true
Have you made a resolution, written a list of things you want to achieve or written an objective for the year in your planner? Are …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …