A global Gallup poll conducted pre COVID revealed that, among the more than one billion full-time workers, only 15% felt they were properly engaged in their work. In an article titled ‘The World’s Broken Workplace’, Jim Clifton, the Chairman of Gallup, put this staggering statistic down to outdated management practices […]
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If you love working with people, have a thoroughly ethical disposition, and share a passion for – and open mind about – personal development, don’t overlook life coaching as a fantastic, potential new full– or part-time career. Life coaching is one of the fastest growing industries in the world at
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Ask any life coach what they do and the chances are high that the word change will crop up in the description they choose to share. At New Insights we like to think of life coaches as agents for change. Helping people bring about the changes that they desire in
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Life coaching is one of the most fulfilling professions around. As a life coach you get involved in helping your clients achieve their goals and dreams and, more generally, improve their self awareness and overall quality of life. What could be more relevant or important in this very challenging world
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To many, the achievement of personal freedom would seem wholly dependent on one’s ability to build material wealth. To others, attaining personal freedom requires one to focus on a path of spirituality, which is incompatible with an approach to life based on the acquisition of material things. So, who is
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Do you love your work, tolerate it, or just plain hate it? Are you closing in on your dreams, stuck in neutral, or drifting further away? A complete turn I gave up any active involvement in engineering more years ago than I care to remember but the civil engineering institute
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There’s no question that we are weathering difficult times! Some are experiencing unprecedented anxiety over health and wellness issues. Most are having to come to terms with increasing economic stress or hardship. During such times it is natural to scale down the purchase of luxuries and scale up the investment
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If you’re more advanced in years like me, chances are the title of this post conjured up a vision of a brightly coloured VW Kombi travelling along a deserted road near the beach with its carefree, long haired occupants, humming along to the strains of Fleetwood Mac! Join in! Okay,
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It’s been a strange old year, not so! But don’t worry, things are about to get a LOT better. How do I know? Thirteen today! … Because New Insights Africa turns thirteen today!! And in doing so, we move beyond the dark perils of our ‘annus superstitious’ and emerge into
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In a recent post, Living in Interesting Times, I suggested that there is a very important benefit arising from the current global crisis. That benefit is more time to reflect and rethink what we are doing, how we are doing it, why, and what changes might be desirable. For some,
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How many careers do you know that give you the flexibility to work the hours that suit you – and work from the comfort of home or wherever you choose? There are a few that spring to mind. For example, freelance content writer, proof reader, article translator, web designer, graphic
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American author Robert Byrnes, who died in 2016, is credited with a number of powerful and often quite humorous quotes. “The purpose of life is a life of purpose” is one of my favourites and one that we regularly refer to in the New Insights life coach training and certification
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This week I’d like to offer a follow up to the original post, A Coaching Case Study, that I presented as a post some weeks ago. The theme of the case study is how ordinary people like you and me can achieve quite extraordinary things with the help of a
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The famous Scottish novelist, Robert Louis Stevenson, once said “Everybody lives by selling something.” Think carefully about that statement and you’ll realise just how true it is. Whether you work in front line sales or in back office administration; whether you’re a fiction writer or a school janitor; whether you
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Life coaching is becoming increasingly popular as a part– or full time career, as people appreciate the double benefits of having a truly flexible career that can adapt to one’s lifestyle AND one in which the primary aim is to be a catalyst for positive and constructive change in the
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In this, the first blog post for 2019, let me start by wishing all subscribers a very happy and prosperous New Year! Cynics will smirk and say that’s a rather hackneyed phrase that we trot out, ever hopefully, at the commencement of yet another year! The point in the earth’s
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By all accounts our beloved planet is in a real mess at the moment. And it’s all thanks to us. Have you heard of the so-called ‘Doomsday Clock’? It was designed as a symbol to represent the likelihood of a planet-wide man made catastrophe. Midnight on the clock denotes the
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Not long ago I was listening in on a conversation some friends of friends were having about their son and the struggles he had been experiencing with schoolwork and exams. The conversation went something like this: “Unfortunately he’s just not a gifted child, so we’ll have to accept that he
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A few readers have enquired as to why there was no blog post last week. The reason is that a week ago today, our young son, Casey, left to take up a job opportunity in London. As you might imagine, my wife, Jenni, and I found ourselves otherwise preoccupied, helping
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