Pressurevalve Coaching

• Reflecting on 2019 achievements.

• Celebrating your accomplishments in 2019.

• It's not boastful to celebrate your achievements, it's essential.

• A weird animal Christmas dinner!

• You have more power than you think.

• Challenging a passive mindset.

• A hospice healthcare worker who had more power than she realised.

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• 10 questions to ask yourself as the end of the year approaches.

• Kindness advent calendar.

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Problem-solving - how do you ensure you are solving the right problem?

• The power of storytelling.

• How and why storytelling works.

• Good leaders are great storytellers - tips for telling stories that resonate.

• An example - Ellen DeGeneres' commencement speech for Tulane University.

• Getting better sleep to fuel your career.

• Is a grudge keeping you awake at night?

• Night time anxiety - how making a change to your morning routine can reduce it. 

• What's in your career's future?

• 11 tips for career planning at any age or career stage.

• 7 books that will propel your business into the future

• Life lessons from the French.

• Simple things that can improve your day and boost your resilience.

Tips for introverts and extroverts in meetings and in networking situations.

• The dangers of perfection.

• How to stop waiting and make a start.

• What is coaching?

• How is it different to mentoring and therapy?

• What is a day in the life of a coach like?

• Naff things some coaches say.

• How to negotiate a compensation increase.

• Dos and Don'ts.

• How to lay the ground work.

• Achieving success by not trying so hard.

• Habits to give up so that you can achieve more.

• Subtle secrets to becoming successful.

• Roller-coaster phone save!  (Demonstrating what you can achieve when you don't try so hard).

• What your calendar says about your true priorities and values.

• A tool for identifying your top two current priorities.

• Modern-day priorities.

Giving effective feedback:

• Top four gripes about poorly delivered feedback.

• Ten ways to give better feedback.

• What to praise people for.

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• Wellness and self-care - which ideas should we take on board for effective performance at work?

• Plus, which ideas are just a load of marketing guff?

• Pain-free networking.

• Alternative questions to 'So what do you do?'

• Why you need to take a break.

• How to take effective breaks.

• Giving a break to a young carer.

How to stop work stress spilling over into your home life / leisure time.

Working late -

• Why you work late and how to break the habit.

• 7 ways to always leave work on time.

• 15 things to do with your evening when you do leave on time.

• Speaking like a boss.

• How certain phrases can come with loaded meanings that we need to be aware of.

• Minimising words.

• Accepting credit and compliments.

• How to manage your reaction to colleagues who annoy you.

• How fallow time is necessary for productivity.

• How a four-day week could save the planet!

• Lot's to do?  Don't know where to start?  This tool will help you focus.

• The Productivity Matrix.

• Ways to beat procrastination.

• A procrastinating cat!

• HFM is two years old!

• How to notice you are catastrophising and how to stop it.

• (Plus silly cat videos - CAT-astrophies!)

Making career decisions:

• 5 steps to help you create a career.

• 3 questions to ask yourself when feeling overwhelmed with career choices.

• A lovely story of someone excelling in their job.

• What are the components of persistence?

• A lesson in persistence from...a goat!

Self-sabotage:

• A quick-quiz to identify how you self-sabotage.

• How you may be getting in your own way, and how to stop doing it.

• Crowd sourced advice on a range of themes, from work-life balance to parenting.

• How to ask for advice.

• Bad advice from the 'Malicious Mallard'!

Positive habits:

• Ten small habits that have a huge return.

• How to make a new habit stick.

• How to spring clean your career.

• How to speak up in meetings and when to keep quiet.

• Strategies to help introverts in meetings.

• Setting up a reciprocity circle to move your goals forward.

• An antidote to mainstream media - stories of acts of kindness

• 7 tips to reduce stress at work.

• If that doesn't work - a calming video of animals being groomed with mascara brushes

• Three common mistakes people make after they've offered someone a job.

• James Caan's top ten recruitment tips.

• 20 weird interview questions.

• W.A.I.T.  Why Am I Talking?  A great mnemonic to bring to mind before you go to speak.

• Plus a Pika impersonating Freddie Mercury at Live Aid!

• How to get better at estimating your time.

• Knitting jumpers for poorly pets!

The importance of self-care including a month's worth of self-care ideas.

• Permission to eat doughnuts!

• Focusing on strengths rather than berating ourselves for perceived weaknesses.

• A useful tool to help you at a career crossroads.

• How to be happy at work, even if you don't love your job.

• Plus, a Game of Thrones star poses for cheesy stock photography.

• Tips on working smarter, not harder.

• A reminder of why our time is so precious.

First-time people managers;

• You got the promotion - hooray! Now you need to manage people - eek!

• How to transition from worker bee to manager.

• Plus, 21 office pranks.

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Working parents special:

• Parents who work freelance.

• Confidence tips for Mums returning to work.

• How to switch off from work when you are at home with your family.

• Cartoons about parenting.

• A model to help you structure difficult conversations.

• A happy story to beat 'Blue Monday'.

• How to prepare for a 60 - 70 year career!

• (Plus, a singing zebra, to help you recover from finding out you could be working for 70 years).

• Capturing your impact over the last 12 months.

• A man who donated his 200,000 air miles to help others.