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Benefits of Coaching

Benefits of Coaching

 

Life coaching journey can help make changes happen quicker than you can believe. The benefits of coaching first start because you feel like you have took control by booking a coaching session, you start to feel more empowered and you are positively looking and discussing goals and outcomes.

Coaching sessions are designed to help you reflect and consider yourself from new perspectives that you have not considered before. This knowledge is the key to your success. NLP life coaching helps you understand how your mind, body and emotions work together.

Coaching clients feel committed to change, when you set yourself a goal most people feel they can let themselves down, but as a coaching client you feel more compelled to complete each task moving you forward to achieving your goal. You can use your coach as a sound board, a mentor and that person who you can openly express yourself without being judged.

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Coaching session can include all areas of your life from personal development to careers achieve, from phobias to confidence building. The benefits of coaching can include:

Personal Development

  • Realise your potential and Increase your self awareness
  • Gain a good work/life balance, overcome barriers and setbacks
  • Recognise what makes you happy, learning to do more of the things you like and less of the things that make you stressed
  • Set out your goals and help you understand how you can achieve them
  • Become more motivated and experience higher levels of self esteem
  • Gain new skills and qualities; Assertiveness, listening skills etc

 

Relationship

  • Improve your relationship with others; friends, family, colleagues and managers
  • Understand how you communicate with yourself and know yourself better
  • Learn how to gain instant rapport with others
  • Realise how your own values, attitude and beliefs, shape your life
  • Understand other people’s perspectives and how it is to see the world through another’s eyes

 

Fears and Confidence

  • Reduce your fears and negative self talk
  • Increase your confidence and gain new motivation
  • Access positive emotions and eliminate old set backs that still stop you from moving forward
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No More Pokes: 10 True Stories – How Facebook Ruined My Career

No More Pokes: 10 True Stories

– How Facebook Ruined My Career

 

 1.      Facebook Comment Cost me a £6000 Payout

 

Kate Furlong, a Royal Bank of Scotland employee was due a nice £6000 redundancy payout. While off work due to an illness, Kate received a redundancy notice through the post and promptly added her disgust on her facebook wall ”I speak for myself when I say WoOOOOooooOooooHOoooOooOoo’ it was pretty damn obvious something like this was coming. I’m neither stupid nor naive … and quite honestly it is the best news ever as far as I am concerned!”

She later followed this up with ”It was not unexpected. I’ve just hung on by my fingertips to stick around long enough for a nice payout when they could’ve had me out long ago without a penny! More fool them! Haha! Xx.”  This Facebook insult resulted in the Royal Bank of Scotland holding a disciplinary hearing before deciding to sack Furlong without a penny, with the employer saying that she broke a secrecy agreement.

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2.      Facebook Got Me the Sack

 

A computer technician at a USA high school was fired, after two students thought that he was ‘creepy.’ To check out their theory the boys set up a fake facebook account posing as a 16 year old girl to trick him into asking her out. The unsuspecting worker and father of two fell for the trick and invited the fake ‘Sarah’ out telling her how cute she was, before being sacked by the school

 

The father-of-two was aware that she was 16 from the get go, with the students posing as Sarah telling the older male that she was a model, the perpetrator quickly responded claiming to be interested in photography. These exchange took place over several months, before the police became involved.

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3.      Offensive Facebook Messages Ruins Footballers Career

 

Bygrave a none league footballer came through the ranks at Reading, before playing for Gillingham, Weymouth, Histon and Hayes & Yeading until being promptly sacked after admitting to making numerous comments about race, disability and paedophilia on Facebook. Bygrave later issued a statement saying he “deeply regretted” his actions.

He said: “As much as I totally accept that they are inappropriate and will offend many people, I believed I was just repeating banter and jokes from numerous sources”

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4.      Fat Taunts Ends Builders Career

 

In competitive times 3 builders secured a building contract with Dennis Owen from Wales. When they arrived the trio thought Dennis was overweight and posted a picture of a pair of his large sized jeans which they had found while working in his house — with the comment “the fattest person I have seen in my life” on their face book wall.

 

We don’t know how true this statement was, but we know that they got a lot of laughs from their mates until the Dennis made his complaint, which resulted in the trio losing a lucrative building contract.

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5.      Pulling a Sickie

 

Kyle Doyle, a call centre worker from Sydney, after a big night out decide early in the morning as the room was spinning that he would ring in sick. After e-mailing his manager Kyle was still level headed enough to gloat about his master mind scheme on facebook.

 

Unfortunately for the 21-year-old his boss had seen his Facebook status which read: “Kyle Doyle is not going to work, f… it – I’m still trashed. SICKIE WOO!”

 

The email exchange between the two ended with boss Niresh Regmi posting the Facebook page on his email under the message: “I believe the proof that you are after is below”.

 

At this Doyle realised he had been caught in the act and seemed to accept his fate, writing back: “HAHAHA LMAO epic fail. No worries man.”

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6.      Women Sacked on for Complaining About Her Boss on Facebook

 

Hoping to release the Sunday night stress after thinking about work, Lindsay decide to vent her anger on facebook posting “I hate my Job” the wall post continue in severity accusing her employer of being lecherous towards her.

Only a couple of hours later, Brain her boss, replied with ‘Firstly, don’t flatter yourself. Secondly, you’ve worked here five months and didn’t work out that I’m gay?

‘I know I don’t prance about the office like a queen, but it’s not exactly a secret.

‘Thirdly, that “s*** stuff ” is called your “job”, you know, what I pay you to do. And lastly, you also seem to have forgotten that you have two weeks left on your six-month trial period. Don’t bother coming in tomorrow.

‘I’ll pop your P45 in the post and you can come in whenever you like to pick up any stuff you’ve left here. And yes, I’m serious.’

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7.      Facebook Post Used as Evidence in Exam Cheat

 

Two Belgian college student after being caught exchanging responses during the tests have been flunked for cheating on their written exams.

Exam supervisors had noticed something suspicious during the exams but had failed to find any hard evidence of cheating. But after a couple of threads on Facebook surfaced, proving that the cheating had been going on for quite a while and showing that the students were pretty proud of the fact they hadn’t been caught.

The council ultimately determined the conversations on the social network could be used as evidence, resulting in the flunking of the pupils after they confessed to cheating

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8.      Military Betrayal to President Obama  

 

The U.S. military discharged Sgt. Gary Stein for postings 15 words on Facebook that have ruined his nine-year career

Stein openly criticized U.S. President Barack Obama on his Facebook profile and posted comical images on a Facebook Page. Online comments included “Obama is the economic enemy … He is the religious enemy … he is the ‘Fundamentally change’ America enemy … he IS the Domestic Enemy.”

The Marine Corps decided to take administrative action after Stein declared “Screw Obama and I will not follow all orders from him” on Facebook. Stein said his statement was part of an online debate about NATO allowing U.S. troops to be tried for the Quran burnings in Afghanistan.

He explained he would not follow orders from the president if it involved detaining U.S. citizens, disarming them, or doing anything else that he believes would violate their constitutional rights. He later clarified the original statement, saying he would not follow “unlawful orders”.

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9.      £10 Cost a School Girl Her Part Time Job

 

Chelsea Taylor a Manchester school girl recently logged onto her social networking site to find a mis-spelt dismissal letter posted on her page -littered with grammatical errors due to the poor girl losing £10, but Elaine Sutton the manageress at Cookies in Leigh Greater Manchester softened the blow with two kisses.

 

The message read: ”hiya (sic) Chelsea its (sic) Elaine from work. Sorry to send u (sic) a message like this but bin (sic) tryin (sic) to ring u (sic) but gettin (sic) no joy.

”I had to tell the owner bout (sic) u (sic) losin (sic) that tenner coz (sic) obviously the till was down at the end of day (sic). she (sic) wasn’t very pleased at all and despite me trying to persuade her otherwise she said I have to let u (sic) go. I’m really sorry.

”If u (sic) call in in (sic) the week with your uniform i’ll (sic) sort your wages out. Once again I’m really sorry but it’s out of my hands. Elaine xx.”

 

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10.      Not Even God Can Save You From Facebook

 

For years Christians have been spreading the good word of our lord, but when Maria Jesus Galan a Nun from the Santo Domingo el Real convent in Toledo, Spain used facebook to pass on the good message to her 600 followers she was quickly kicked out of the nunnery.

10 years ago the nunnery invested in a computer to upload the convents achieves, which Sister Maria was responsible for. She then went on to use the internet for online banking and other online initiates which in the end won her a governmental price for her digital initiatives. With this new fame she increased her facebook popularity which was the start of her downfall.

Her fellow nuns reportedly claimed that Sister Maria’s Facebook activity “made life impossible.” She was therefore asked to leave and now lives with her mother.

At least Sister Maria understands the opportunities an online life can offer. She used to have 600 Facebook friends. Now her Facebook community numbers more than 5,000

 

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How to Read The Interviewers Facial Expressions

Read The Interviewers Facial Expressions With Ease

Interviewers are tricky places, and more often then not the interviewee does not know how their interview is going. Imagine you could read the interviewers micro facial expressions, so you knew if your answer was hitting the mark, imagine you could just by looking at the employer you knew if they liked you or not.

Micro expressions are hard to hide which means you will really know what the other person is thinking, just by looking at their face and this Article will teach you how to read the interviewers micro expressions and later you can participate in an interactive micro expression test yourself.

Micro expressions happen so quick and are so  instant that if you the micro reader blink you can miss them. This is why reading micro expressions is a key to understanding how someone really feels, as the subject often doesn’t know that they have made them – micro movements are made through unconscious movements of the muscles

How to Read Micro Expressions

1. Sadness – narrowed eyes, eyebrows together, down-pointed mouth, and a pulling up of the chin

2. Anger – lowered eyebrows, tense lips and eye lids and wrinkled forehead

3.  Contempt – single raised corner of the mouth, slight tightening of the eyelids (sneer)

4. Disgust – raising of upper lip, narrowed eyes, wrinkled nose and narrowed eye brows

5. Surprise – dropped jaw, relaxed lips and mouth, widened eyes and slightly raised eyelids and eyebrows

6.  Fear – eyes and mouth open rather widely, eyebrows raised and nostrils flared

7. Happiness – raising corner of lips and cheeks, narrowing eyes to produce “crow’s feet” on the outside of each eye

Tim Roth (above) Stars as Dr Cal Lightman in the hit series Lie to Me, a great show where Dr Lightman and his team tackle a weekly mystery by reading micro expressions, body language and verbal cues. A series well recommend by Employment King

To become an expert you need to practice, re-read the emotion explanations above and watch this facial expression video on YouTube Facial Expression Tutorial by Khappucino 

Go over this video a couple of times, to increase your facial reading abilities.

If you want to learn more about Emotions and Facial Expression, learn from the master himself Paul Ekman, read his amazing book Emotions Revealed. Buy the Book Now by clicking the image below:

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How to get That Christmas Job

How to get That Christmas Job

 

As with all job positions, you need to target your application; if the employer requires a seasonal employee, explain that you are applying for a seasonal worker, this is easily done on the covering letter

 

Look the part; if you’re applying for an elf or Father Christmas role, turn looking similar to character you are portraying. This doesn’t mean you need to turn in Santa outfit, but you could turn up with a full grown beard and a plump tummy this way you will give the interviewer a visual representation of how you will fit in to this role

 

Open all hours; employers recruit seasonal staff because during these busy times, especially leading up to Christmas and the Boxing Day sales employers open for over 16 hours a day, which means they need to recruit people who can work these long hours. Make it clear that you are willing to work Christmas week, Christmas Eve and Boxing Day. So flexibility and make it clear you know how busy the workplace will be, now the employer is satisfied that you won’t quit half way through the week.

 

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5 Pro’s and Con’s for Going to University

Going to University?

 

Education is an Investment – with the increasing (perceived) debt for students, many potential university pupils are questioning if they should jump straight into the job market or accept the (perceived) debt they will intake through the education system?

University Pro’s

 

  • University is a lifestyle choice as well as an educational means, for many universities is the first time they get to live away from home
  • Degree level employees are paid more than none qualified colleagues with graduates accepting management training positions in various organizations
  • University gives you the means to become an expert in a subject
  • You don’t have to pay your fee back until you earn over £27,295

    (it was £25,725 before the new tax year kicked in on 6 April) 

    (and you only pay back 9% on anything you earn above this amount) 

  • Being a graduate is a positive identity
  • You can access HE (higher education) course in traditional universities, college settings (often smaller classes, additional support and reduce fees) and as a degree apprentice 

University Con’s

 

  • You have a large perceived debt holding over you – but remember you don’t pay anything back until you earn over £26,575 
  • If you choose the wrong degree (a career you decide you no longer interested in) you have still have to pay back your student loan once you earn over £26,575 and/or you may have to retrain for a new career ***gaining career advice before applying for HE is a must!
  • There may be a future decline in careers in the sector you are studying in, that you were not aware of when enrolling
  • At first, you might not know anyone (but you will quickly make friends)
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Do You Have to Run Naked Through The Office To Get Sacked?

Do You Have to Run Naked Through The Office To Get Sacked? 

 

To my surprise, while sat at my desk a colleague, Gareth ran through the office naked! Gareth was always the clown, but I thought he had gone too far this time, he was bound to get the sack.

I was baffled when Gareth later told, me that our boss had given him several weeks paid leave to recover from the stress of the job. The truth is employers hires us because they want to make money. But employers don’t want to fire us because they’re scared they will lose money.

You can’t walk down a high street without seeing a lawyer’s office with a sign outside “unfairly dismissed? No win, no fee” employers are just too scared to let us go, it’s the same reason why you can’t use the office stapler without a risk assessment, employers are all too aware that they may get rid of the office clown one week, and see him perform the following month in court

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What’s Happening to all the Retail Jobs?

What’s Happening to all the Retail Jobs? 

 

The retail sector is one of the largest recruiting job sectors in the world employing people from retail professionals to students looking for part time work.  For many they don’t realise the vast amount of positions in retail and that most large retailers have fantastic staff benefits and a great internal promotional opportunities.

 

Employees either enter at graduate level generally trained in Business Management or fall into this career, gaining promotion from the shop floor to management positions, generally gaining a promotion every 3-4 years, with many companies offering internal training opportunities to the right candidate. Many people more from customer service assistant, cashier, team leader, shop manager, area supervisor

 

What surprising is the amount of retail positions available from the shop assistant to store manager. Other jobs include buyer, designer, graphic designer, accountant, window designer, driver, warehouse staff, marketer, administrator. In the retail sector, many of job positions are available, but these days with development in technology, the internet and Smartphone’s many low skilled retail jobs are vanishing and high skilled jobs are increasing.

 

As an example more supermarkets are using self serve check outs which will reduce low skilled cashier jobs and more people buy goods online increasing high skilled internet marketing positions

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Take a Side Step, To Step Up

Take a Side Step, To Step Up

 

With advances in technology and global competition, job sectors are changing at a rapid pace, requiring organisations to look at new innovative ways at working. This also includes businesses looking at new sources of income through offering new products, services and diversifying their market.

 

For some employees new changes can be hard to initiate but for the clever professional looking at lateral career advancement, gaining that all important promotion quicker then could be expected. The following steps will allow you to advance your career by simply embracing the new changes in your organisation and job sector.

 

 

Let Others Know Your Expertise

 

As you hear about the new initiatives in your industry, you need to quickly become an expert these developments, from offering anew service and understanding the market for a new product. A couple of days searching on the internet and researching in the library can give you enough knowledge to sound like you have the expertise to gain a job offer.  Embrace the new changes as the rumours spread about the forthcoming changes and let us know about your expertise on this new development. With office gossip the key communication tool in most organisations, your expertise will soon be known to the senior management, if not during your next meeting let them know.

 

 

Take On Extra Responsibility

 

Offer advice, give feedback and research this new initiative and make accurate predictions, soon your senior management team will be coming to you first for advice.  Take pride in your work and knowledge and keep researching and building up your own expertise, don’t fall into the trap off dumbing down your new found wisdom even when other colleagues on your level start talking behind your back, as this is a sign that your hard work is coming to fruition, as competitive employees will be jealous of your new found status in the company.

 

Acted as if You Been Promoted

 

With people at all levels asking for your opinion on how to take advantage of their new initiative, you have come, in the eyes of the organisation a powerful asset. This last stage is simple, just start to act as if you have been promoted to the position you require; complete additional task, analysis statistics and make predictions, research competition and market trends. Set up meetings to discuss your new founding’s and offer a detailed plan of action. When your ideas have been agreed, offer to take charge, give additional insights and give them suitable names of employees that you will need as part of your team. With this agreed offer to brief them and start to implement the action plan, in this way you are seen as the project manager. As your hard work starts to increase income you can approach your line manager for a well deserved pay rise.

 

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Only 45 Minutes to Make a Good Impression

You only have 45 minutes to make a good impression!

 

The interview for some is one of their most uncomfortable experiences they will have, having to sell your skills to outwit the other applicants, to a panel of interviewers. Many applicants know they can add value to the new organisation, with their skill base embedded in there job sector not in passing job interviews.

With experience on both sides of the table I understand the importance of standing out from the interview crowd, but make sure you stand positively not negatively. After a long day of interviewing the last candidate sat down and introduced himself, they say that interviewers make their mind up in the first 5-10 minutes of the interview, but in reality people make generalisations in the first 5-10 seconds. I immediately formed a negative opinion of this guy, maybe it was his lack of eye contact or the sweat stains under his armpits, for whatever reason I didn’t think he would suit our team, and the interview prove me right. With most interviewees like this, you quickly forget them, but 10 years later and can still remember him, because he stood out from the crowd.  It took the whole interview for this applicant to stand out from the crowd,  which he achieved as I was walking him to the exit, when he turned around, and said confidently for the first time throughout the whole interview “can you please refund my bus ticket” I was so shocked that I actually took hold of the bus ticket, and put my hand in my trouser pocket with the change in it, until I looked at the date and realised the daily bus ticket was three days out of date.

Standing out from the crowd will get you remembered and when used right can be used to your interview advantage. I worked recently with one client, who had a large skill base but often failed in job interviews. She was so frustrated that I coached her to try a new technique. As the interview was progressing, she again realised that her answers were not hitting the mark and the interviewer looked a little bored. During her the next interview answer she used the killer line, that would make her stand out and change the interviewers opinion of her forever. “I know you have been interviewing all day and are probably feeling a little tiered, and to be honest with you I know I can add value to your team, but I also know that I’m not the best at interviews. So, my proposal is this, I will give you £400 if you let me work for you for a week for free. If I’m as good as I know I am, you will be highly impressed and will want to hire me, if not you get to keep the £400. I know this sounds a little out the box, but I also know that you will be highly impressed with my work ethic and skill base”

She was offered a job, without having to gamble the £400. It doesn’t matter how you make yourself stand out positively in the job interview, but this is the key to winning more job offers as employers want to know how much added value you can bring to the team.

 

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