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Career Coaching: How to Achieve Career Goals with a Career Coach?
Career coaching is an effective method for supporting both professional and personal development . If you're looking to create your own career path , seek new challenges , or prepare for a promotion , working with a coach can be highly beneficial. In this article, you will learn what career coaching services are, what benefits they bring, and how they can help you develop your career . What is career coaching? Career coaching is a process that helps clients analyze their d
Ryszard Skarbek
Oct 16, 20257 min read


Loyalty at work. Corporate life
Today we are entering the ground of competition and pressure, uncertainty and anxiety, fatigue and repetition. So we're going to our beloved … job. For this column, I was inspired by a comment posted under one of the LinkedIn posts: “For me, as an employee, the most important effects for the company are not. If I had a choice between working for a man with whom you do not know what to expect or for a predictable but slightly less successful boss, I would always choose the lat
Ryszard Skarbek
Mar 14, 20255 min read


How to find the right job that suits you?
Each person is guided by something different when faced with a new career path decision. We also have different goals and reasons to stay in a given company. Regardless of your current job, choosing a future profession that suits your needs and abilities, is crucial. If you do not know how to do this, a career coach will help you. This is a person who helps anyone who is not sure which path to choose. They also support people who want to become an expert in a new field - chan

Jędrzej Skarbek
Feb 14, 20252 min read


60 Tools of a Good Mentor
A good mentor can have a profound impact on a mentee's professional and personal development. A good mentoring relationship primarily includes mutual trust and respect, effective sharing of knowledge and experience, regular communication, and focusing on the goals and needs of the mentee. In this article, we will look at the key methods, techniques, and tools that a good mentor uses in their work. We will also provide a list of over fifty specific activities that a mentor ca
Ryszard Skarbek
Jun 14, 202411 min read


Building a relationship with your new boss
No matter how many years you have worked, starting to work with a new boss is always a challenge. Even more so if it results from our decision to change the workplace and move to a completely new environment. There are so many unknowns to discover, and one of the question marks concerns your new boss. The difficulty level increases if you work in an international environment. If your new boss is a foreigner, you will have to overcome cultural and language barriers. And if you
Ryszard Skarbek
Oct 26, 20238 min read


Career Coaching. Intelligence, Promotion (?), Frustration, Burnout
Isn't it that when we shave or do make-up in the morning we think about what will be at work? The same thoughts accompany us at breakfast
Ryszard Skarbek
Jan 29, 20236 min read


Entrepreneurship coaching - a way to develop your company
The support of a professional in managing your own business is invaluable. If you run a company, you are the president or a member of the management team, and you want your company to develop dynamically. It is worth reaching out for business coaching. It is carried out by a qualified business coach who will thoroughly analyze the company's needs and its situation and, on this basis, will propose a way of cooperation. The coach helps to solve short-term and long-term problems

Jędrzej Skarbek
Jan 7, 20235 min read


How to overcome fear when you're afraid to make mistakes at work
We all make mistakes in both personal life and professional environment. It is natural for human beings. And in fact, we learn the most from our mistakes, not our successes. Sometimes, we can quickly correct the situation and prevent the undesired outcomes. In other cases, we can forget about the error and move on. But it also happens that our mistake is a serious one. There is no longer a way to fix it. It is the worst-case scenario. We have to face severe consequences the m
Ryszard Skarbek
Dec 3, 20227 min read


Career path building. What's your next step?
To make the right choice for your new career path, you need to decide what factors are most important to you in your new job, and then choose the option that best reflects them. And it works on two levels - rational and emotional, "intuitive" . You will only be truly happy with your decision when they are matched. This post presents a method that can be used to analyze options at both levels and design your new career path. As you begin preparing for the career change you wan
Ryszard Skarbek
Nov 14, 20227 min read


How to start a new career path?
Sometimes, to improve our quality of life, it is necessary to make big changes to it. Such as saying goodbye to your current career and starting a new career path. When should you consider changing your career path? There may be several reasons for such a decision. Your current job has been boring for a long time, you feel that you are not developing at all, and the obligations imposed on you have little to do with your education and skills. Or maybe you feel burnout and the

Jędrzej Skarbek
Sep 6, 20223 min read


How to set yourself career goals?
In previous posts, we discussed the topic of a clear direction for professional development. Today, while continuing to look at this issue, we will try to answer the question "How to set career goals?" It seems like an obvious piece of advice to think about what you want to achieve. The key, however, is to approach these considerations wisely. When setting career goals, the so-called SMART method is often used. How to approach setting professional goals? Thinking about what w

Jędrzej Skarbek
Aug 2, 20223 min read


Why do we need professional goals?
One of the common questions you may hear in an interview is "Where do you see yourself in 5-10 years?" Although frustrating, it has a very specific intention: this way the employer wants to see what idea you have for yourself and your professional development, and whether you are a good candidate for the job. Answering this question can help you get your dream contract, but it's worth it know me for myself as well. A clear definition of our aspirations helps in finding a suit

Jędrzej Skarbek
Jul 26, 20222 min read


What is a professional goal?
Both young people who have just entered the labor market and people with many years of experience who are reevaluating their priorities struggle with the problem of determining their direction of development. On the other hand, for some people it is a very easy task - from their teenage years, they showed interest in one specific field and are 100% sure that they want to choose a related career path. Fulfilling your dreams about a career, achieving a specific position, and ga

Jędrzej Skarbek
Jul 23, 20222 min read


Top Competency and Personality Tests - A Comprehensive Review
Nowadays, personality tests are no longer only the domain of psychologists. They find more and more use in the business world
Ryszard Skarbek
May 7, 202218 min read


What is appreciative intelligence?
Appreciative intelligence is an extremely useful psychological competence. Above all, it helps us to recognize our strengths but also...
Ryszard Skarbek
Dec 4, 20214 min read


Authority, or the perverse relationship of the parent-teacher meeting and lunch with the boss
When I thought about this situation, I realized the phenomenon of the authority, which I was a witness and, in a sense, a victim of
Ryszard Skarbek
Sep 24, 20214 min read


Sunday depression - episode 1 - do you have a good job?
It's Sunday again and in my village, it is accompanied by a gray morning. I feel like pulling the topic of Sunday depression today
Ryszard Skarbek
Jul 18, 20214 min read


Are you part of the Transformation?
I strongly encourage you to read this column for all those who are now taking part in the TRANSFORMATION so fashionable today
Ryszard Skarbek
Jul 16, 20214 min read


Mentoring Relationship and Its Growing Importance in Organisations
Connecting with a mentor can be a huge benefit in your career. More and more companies are launching and expanding mentorship programs
Ryszard Skarbek
Mar 6, 20215 min read


Life Coaching - I'm busy, therefore I am
We have created times that are chronically short on time. Everyone is chasing somewhere, in a hurry...
Ryszard Skarbek
Sep 27, 20204 min read
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