Career Development Archives

December 8, 20230Comments

Navigating the Confidence Tightrope: Strategies for Assertiveness Without Aggression

The first ever course I was sent on once I started work, was on an assertiveness course. I was a Commercial Management Trainee at Marks and Spencer and I was

by Sonia Gavira

Career Development

Confidence

Leadership Essentials

Women in Leadership

December 8, 20230Comments

Mastering the Art of Humble Bragging: Communicating Achievements with Grace

Oooh! This is a topic that is close to home…. Anyone else starting to squirm just at the mention of “bragging”, humble or not? A few years ago, the inability to

by Sonia Gavira

Career Coaching

Career Development

Leadership Essentials

New or First Time Leaders and Managers

Performance

Team

August 27, 20230Comments

How to increase the performance of your team without doing YOUR work at the weekend

So you got the promotion and got a team. Yippee!!! It’s what you were working for and it finally happened. “Now I can prove that I’m a leader” “Now I can really get

June 17, 20230Comments

What stops us from having a career and life we love

Coming back from the summer holidays is always an interesting time… People seem to have “reset” in some ways and come back having made some new decisions regarding their lives and

April 20, 20230Comments

Are you secretly ambitious?

There’s a discovery that I’m making in my coaching lately which has me both worried and excited at the same time. What is it? It’s the number of female leaders I am

November 30, 20220Comments

Why am I not as successful as I want to be?

I’ve just started a poll here on Linkedin: Regardless of your profession, business sector, or industry you work in, you want to be successful. There’s no doubt about this. But why do

by Sonia Gavira