Executive Coaching

How Confronting Your Limiting Beliefs Sky Rockets your Personal Growth

By Vicky Kelly / 17 June 2024

On the path of personal development, some of the most significant barriers we encounter are our own limiting beliefs. These are deeply ingrained thoughts and convictions that constrain our potential, holding us back from achieving our true capabilities. Limiting beliefs are often subconscious and so subtle, that we don’t even realise that they are at…

Growth Mindset Vs Fixed Mindset

By Vicky Kelly / 16 April 2024

If you’ve heard of Growth Mindset Vs Fixed Mindset, you have most likely come across it presented in a binary way.  As though people are either one or the other and it is a simple choice as to which. However, I believe that most of us are somewhere in the middle.  Believing or deciding we…

Burnout – more than just working too hard

By Vicky Kelly / 26 July 2023

Burnout – the modern epidemic? I am firmly touching wood whilst declaring that I have never experienced burn out, but the number of people who are telling me that they have is growing, so I thought it would be worth exploring what it is and how to prevent it in a blog article here: What…

Being Organised Vs Winging It

By Vicky Kelly / 3 July 2023

How many times have you heard that you need to be organised to get ahead?!  Are you getting Time Management tools advertised to you as you navigate your newsfeeds?!  It’s a topic that comes up often in my coaching world!  Whether I am being asked to present on it to a group, or if it’s…

Hiring a Wellbeing Coach

By Vicky Kelly / 18 June 2019

Wellbeing – the sense of ‘being’ within which wellness is always present. Why Wellbeing? Due to increased poor mental and emotional health, as well as stress-related illnesses, costing employers and the NHS a lot of money, wellbeing has been brought to the forefront of most of our minds.  We are now regularly being encouraged to…

Leadership and the Ego

By Vicky Kelly / 28 May 2019

The work I do as a Leadership coach has a stark difference to the usual training given in our culture. The essential difference to the teaching and coaching that I offer to leaders and managers is a foundational understanding, which is not addressed in regular leadership and management training.  Yet this understanding is what drives…

Mindfulness for Staff

By Vicky Kelly / 23 April 2019

Mindfulness – the buzz word of staff wellbeing, but how easy is it to achieve?!

The idea makes sense, but how easy is it in practice to divert your busy mind to exclusively concentrate on one thing?

Always thinking about work?

By Vicky Kelly / 12 April 2019

Does your mind churn, every evening, overnight, at the weekends? Always thinking about work. What’s coming up, problems that could arise, what your colleagues/clients may think of you? With all that on your mind, it’s reasonable to conclude that your work is very demanding, it’s really important that you don’t drop any balls and that’s…

Imagine – Leadership de-personalised…

By Vicky Kelly / 17 September 2018

Imagine a leader who never took anything personally. Imagine a leader who could see through ‘disrespectful’ behaviour and see someone who didn’t understand why they were being asked to do what they were doing, and felt vulnerable and confused. Imagine a leader who didn’t associate their employee’s mistakes with a knock to their own leadership…

Workplace wellbeing seminars (with a difference)

By Vicky Kelly / 22 August 2018

Your wellbeing is always with you. State of mind and employee wellbeing is a hot topic – with incidences of stress, anxiety and depression being higher than they’ve ever been.  No doubt your organisation takes seriously the wellbeing of your staff.  Both because you care about them, and also because you care about them being well…