Pressurevalve Coaching

April 2021

• How to diminish the power of your inner critic

• Strengthening and accessing your support team.

January 2021

• Say what you mean.

• 5 ways to communicate more clearly.

• 8 conversational habits that kill credibility.

October 2020

Can I give you some feedback?"

What do you think when someone says those six little words to you?

Do you think - "Yippee, this is going to be a great growth opportunity!" or are your thoughts more along the lines of "Uh-oh, I'm about to be told I suck at something?"

This month we explore how to receive feedback (including praise).

06 July 2020

• HFM is going monthly!

• Five lessons learned by doing things differently.

• Five ways to create mental space.

• Plus, in a world full of princesses, dare to be a hot-dog :)

15 June 2020

• 16 strategies to cope with stress and overwhelm.

• A mother is overwhelmed by the kindness of strangers.

18 May 2020

It's never too late to change -

• Coaching questions that you can use to overcome obstacles.

• A 96-year-old proves it's never too late to learn something new. 

• An inspiring story from Golden Age Karate.

28 April 2020

• 3 strategies for dealing with trolls.

• Real-life trolls who are cheeky rather than mean.

30 March 2020

• How language can help you at work.

• Daily challenges to keep you entertained at home.

• What happens when you spend a lot of time in the house :)

09 March 2020

• 7 career lessons from a mathematical genius who helped humans travel to into space (and most importantly travel back again safely).

• The question that you all want to ask an astronaut.

17 February 2020

• How effective are the 1:1s that you run with your team?

• Common frustrations that I hear from coaching clients regarding their 1:1s.

• How bad bosses turn 1:1s into torture.

27 January 2020

• How to turn enemies into allies.

• Your top rival can be your biggest ally.

• The three Rs of making your enemies your allies.

• Funny film fights between enemies.

March 2021

• How to stop overthinking and get more done.

• 6 ways to stop overthinking everything.

December 2020

• Finding positives in 2020.

• Random acts of kindness.

• 11 good things that have come out of the pandemic year.

September 2020

Take up my 4-week challenge to raise your visibility and deepen your network

• Week 1: Get clear on your achievements and where you want to go next in your role / career.

• Week 2: eek them out. 

• Week 3: Connect with your network. 

• Week 4: Share your brilliance.

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29 June 2020

• How doom-scrolling is slowly eroding your mental health and motivation.

• WFH? How to get your motivation back.

• Dogs lacking the motivation to go home. 

08 June 2020

How to be more productive by doing less - sound good?

11 May 2020

• Overcoming the 3 P's to become more resilient -

• Permanence, Pervasiveness and Personalisation.

20 April 2020

The game is on!

• How to use gamification to motivate teams.

• Free online games for 44 year-old kids :)

23 March 2020

• Creating simplicity to reduce feelings of overwhelm.

• The four laws of simplicity.

• Happy dogs carrying sticks!

02 March 2020

Girl power edition for International Women's Day, containing greatest hits from HFM including:

• Confidence

• Negotiating a pay rise

• Speaking assertively

• Impostor syndrome

• Saying no.

10 February 2020

• Tips and strategies to help you bounce back from disappointment.

• A disappointed dog.

20 January 2020

• Do you know what you want?

• Questions to help you identify what's critical for you to address in your life, right now.

• Quick tip guide - using coaching to advance your career.

• Relaxing pet videos!

February 2021

• Why variety is necessary for peak work performance.

• 56 ways to increase variety (and beat boredom).

November 2020

• 10 ways to have better conversations.

• 6 ways to become a better listener.

• A beautiful reminder that conversations can happen without words.

August 2020

Why you need a holiday and what to do when you have one - ​

• A reminder of why holidays are so important.

• 73 stay-cation ideas.

• Recommendations of summer reads.

• How you can become a vacation superhero.

• How to use a summer break for a mid-year review and...

• ...holiday fails (yes it's slightly mean to laugh at people face-planting into a sand dune, but it's also rather funny).

22 June 2020

• How to boost your internal communications with infographics.

• An infographic by Mona Chalabi, using 100 New Yorkers to demonstrate the impact of Covid-19 

01 June 2020

How an imaginary board of directors can help your career / business.

04 May 2020

• WFH what we have learnt.

• 9 strategies to make working from home more joyful.

• Thoughts from dogs during lockdown!

06 April 2020

• A visual tool to help you prioritise.

• Adjusting your expectations of yourself during challenging times.

• Good news stories to give you a boost.

16 March 2020

• Coronavirus - inside activities for kids (of all ages!)

• Making wise and kind choices in difficult times.

24 February 2020

• Are you being strategic or operational? A simple tool to help you find out.

• What is the difference between strategic and operational thinking?

• Kindness as a business strategy.

03 February 2020

Career skills that you can learn from rugby.

13 January 2020

• Have you skipped in 2020?

• How to deal with the post-holiday funk.

• Job security - what's your CURVE score?

• Awesome skipping videos.