by Amy Wilkinson | 17 01, 2023 | Communication, Confidence, Leadership, Resilience
Our parents (and teachers) lied to us. There, I said it out loud. “If you just get your head down and do a good job, you’ll have a job for life”. That might once have been true, but we all know the job market has moved on a lot since then but that voice in our head...
by Amy Wilkinson | 5 09, 2022 | Communication, Confidence, Habits, Imposter Syndrome, Mental Health, Perfectionism
You know you need to be more assertive at work but you’re worried you’re going to turn into that d!ck that works in Ops* and come across as aggressive, awkward and unhelpful. This probably goes against every fibre of your being as you were brought up to be polite,...
by Amy Wilkinson | 29 08, 2022 | Burnout Prevention, Communication, Confidence, Imposter Syndrome, Mental Health, Perfectionism
A lot of the women I work with come to me feeling super under valued, like their voice isn’t being heard and they may as well be invisible. One of the things that we often explore as a starting point is to work out whether that’s actually true or whether it’s the...
by Amy Wilkinson | 22 08, 2022 | Communication, Confidence, Imposter Syndrome, Leadership, Perfectionism, Resilience
I know what you’re thinking, “I don’t want to be visible. If I just get my head down and do a good job, then I will get recognition” – and that does work for a while, until it doesn’t any more. That’s when you start to notice the less experienced (and frankly less...
by Amy Wilkinson | 25 07, 2022 | Confidence, Habits, Imposter Syndrome, Leadership, Perfectionism, Stress
For a long time, I thought confidence was a personality trait – you either have it, or you don’t. I used to watch other people present and think I would never be able to do that. Last week, I stood up in front of an audience of over 200 people at one of the UK’s...
by Amy Wilkinson | 12 07, 2022 | BALANCE, Burnout Prevention, Confidence, Leadership, Mental Health, Resilience, Stress, Uncategorized
Working in Food and Grocery can be challenging sometimes. Ok, a lot of the time! And never has it been more challenging than now – the effects of Brexit, Covid, supply issues and inflation make it more than “challenging”, they make it downright hard. I...
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