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What is Executive Coaching?: A Powerful Intervention for SME Leaders

In today’s fast-paced business world, leaders are constantly challenged with staying ahead of the curve while ensuring their teams are productive, engaged, and mentally healthy. This is where executive coaching can make a significant impact. Executive coaching, (particularly integrated coaching which blends key concepts of therapy and coaching) is a powerful development tool aimed at enhancing leadership capabilities, improving team performance, and fostering positive mental health within organisations. In this blog, I’ll reflect on the benefits of executive coaching and…

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Coaching for Entrepreneurs: Achieve Balance

Entrepreneurs are celebrated for their resilience, creativity, and capacity to turn innovative ideas into successful ventures. They are admired for their ability to take calculated risks, solve complex challenges, and inspire others with their vision. Yet, behind this entrepreneurial spirit often lies an overlooked reality: the mental health challenges faced by those who dare to lead their own businesses. Research reveals a startling truth—over 70% of entrepreneurs report experiencing mental health struggles. They are statistically more prone to anxiety, depression,…

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How to Overcome Scarcity Mindset and Embrace Abundance

Considerations for SME Leaders, Owners and Entrepreneurs. Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are the backbone of the global economy, comprising 99% of the UK’s business population and 90% worldwide. These businesses drive innovation, create employment opportunities, and contribute to community growth. However, for the estimated 360 million SME founders, entrepreneurs, and leaders (these terms will be used interchangeably), the road to success is often fraught with challenges—financial, operational, existential, and emotional. One pervasive internal barrier that can hinder growth and…

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Dentists at Breaking Point

A strong body of research evidence illustrates that mental health issues are evident and continuing to grow amongst dental students and qualified dental professionals. Many dentists in training and those in clinical practice report anxiety, exhaustion, stress, and depression, by comparison to other professions and the general population. It has been long-debated that dentists are at increased risk of suicidal ideation and suicide. Even at a glance, research seems to show that there are worrying numbers of dentists both contemplating…

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How To Overcome Imposter Syndrome

With key research suggesting that 62% of entrepreneurs, 70% of C-Suite leaders, and 75% of women experience imposter syndrome in the workplace. What exactly is it and how can leaders find freedom from it? Do you sometimes feels like a fraud? Do you doubt your accomplishments and feel like you’re not enough? Are you constantly worried that one day others will discover you’re not as capable as they think?   If this resonates for you, you may be experiencing Imposter…

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Five Tips on How To Create a Happy Workplace

Celebrate #InternationalWeekofHappiness at Work with five key tips for a happier workplace. Learn how positivity impacts productivity, staff retention, and mental health and discover the benefits of working with a workplace well-being consultant. As we arrive at the International Week of Happiness at Work, it’s time for leaders, senior managers, HR executives, business owners, and entrepreneurs to reflect on how they can nurture a culture of happiness and contentment in the workplace. After all, a positive workplace culture isn’t just…

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Why Work-Life Harmony Matters in Leadership

Leaders stepping up to the helm of a company can have an atmosphere of dynamism, unwavering commitment and success; however, it isn’t just about the victories. Behind powerful leadership decisions and insightful strategies, there’s often a human story, one that’s deeply personal and seldom spoken about. A CEO (or any C-suite leader) is a human being first. In their personal lives, they will likely experience the joys and triumphs of living, as well as setbacks and occasional bumps in the…

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Post Lockdown Anxiety

When our article ‘Surviving Lockdown’ was published in December 2020, we did not anticipate that we would still be in lockdown well into 2021. As we are looking forward to the day when all restrictions will be lifted, and we rejoice at the thought of some kind of normality returning to our lives, surveys are emerging revealing the impact lockdown is having on our mental health. Post lockdown anxiety is a real issue and people have been affected in different…

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Managing Fear and Worry

This past year has been extraordinarily taxing for almost every one of us. Prior, life, for many of us, ticked along, and then suddenly as coronavirus took hold it appeared that life as we knew it came to a halt; followed almost immediately by a profound change in how we live our daily lives. There have been dreadful events worldwide, some covid-19 related and some not, and, while some people may have seen life improve in some ways as the…

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Overcoming Pre-Therapy Jitters

Having successfully provided psychotherapy and counselling within the NHS, charitable services and now the private sector for the past 20 years, one of the things I have noticed, is the trepidation and nervousness that can occur in clients around getting started. Many of the clients I have worked with have come requesting anxiety counselling, stress counselling, counselling for depression, trauma counselling and workplace counselling, and these issues have meant that people can often come along feeling vulnerable and anxious, even…

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