Careers: Is ‘big change’ possible? Lucy Kellaway is one of my favourite journalists. Or should I say, ‘was’. See Kellaway’s articles vanished from the Financial Times around 18 months ago. In an online article I stumbled across last week I discovered Kellaway, who was 30 years in journalism, left her post with the FT. Kellaway […]
Career Progression: Moving from Pain to Gain. I believe it’s a rare journey in life where we get to the end point without some pain along the way. To be honest, I don’t know would I want it any other way. One of my favourite minds on living life well, Victor Frankl, emphasised how suffering […]
The statistics relating to today’s employee paint a clear picture for employers and business leaders. This picture illustrates the reality that a good percentage of your current staff will leave you. The facts about your workforce: According to a study by Gallup, 60% of your millenial workers are currently open to moving jobs. Research by […]
Are you happy with where you work, but less happy with your role? Well then, read on! Amy Wrzesniewski and Jane Dutton, researchers of work fulfilment, have been central to creating a concept called ‘job crafting’. ‘Job crafting’ is the process of making physical and mindset changes to improve how you think and feel about […]
Pixar released the animated movie ‘Inside Out’ in 2015. The movie won the Oscar for Best Animated Film the following year. The movie is based around an 11-year-old girl named Riley, whose family move from Minnesota to San Francisco. In the movie, we watch events unfold through the lens of Riley’s mind. Specifically, we see […]
Do you ever wonder what your ideal career path looks like? There’s clues to the answer in your own home. The home is made by parents, the place where they provide for their kids. The goal of parents is to do everything to give their kids the best possible upbringing. My folks worked incredibly hard […]
Arrah sure you could tell there was something different about him. There was a sparkle in his eye. He had an energy about him that made him stand out from everyone else in the bustling Dublin café. T’was no wonder the lady next to him struck up a conversation with him. After fifteen minutes or […]
You may at this stage be reaching saturation point on advice for shaping your 2018. With that in mind, this is not a 30-day programme. It’s not twelve sequential steps, combined with an algebraic formula to achieve a year of eternal happiness (with hindsight, Inspo’s post last week fell a little into this category, apologies). […]
2018 has the potential to be a great year. Two statements must be addressed to allow 2018 to be as great as possible. They are statements that Inspo encountered frequently in 2017. “I’d love to do something different. But I’m too long doing what I’m doing”. “Work has me exhausted and my sense of work/life […]
Welcome to the final blog of 2017! It’s been a year which saw Oscar drama, political change, sporting firsts. Here’s the four key takeaways from Inspo’s review of the year: People: For Inspo, it’s been a year of meeting and working with unbelievable people. It’s also been a year of unbelievable support, goodwill and encouragement […]