Niki Corbishley, Noo Coaching

Hello Reader, Welcome back after the summer, I hope you found time to relax and switch off from work a little. We arrived back in the UK mid August, spent our usual bank holiday at Shrewsbury folk festival, and I only really feel like I'm back in the swing of things this week. I've just published my September blog - this month I am reflecting on a conversation I had with an ex work collegaue many months ago who had a very different experience to me, despite us both having worked in the same...

Hi Reader As I've been writing my book this last week, I’ve been reflecting about a client I worked with who, on paper, had every reason to feel confident. She had built a successful career over many years, progressed into senior leadership and had led through some significant organisational challenges. She was respected, experienced and had plenty of evidence that she was good at what she did. But that wasn’t how she felt when we started working together. She had left her organisation...

Hi Reader There’s a point in many of my coaching conversations when a client says something along the lines of: “I just have too much to do.” Their diary is full. Their to-do list keeps growing. They’re constantly moving from one thing to the next And, however much they get done, there’s always something else waiting. So, understandably, they think they have a time-management or capability problem, which can grow into feelings of overwhelm and stress and often result in being less rather than...

Hi Reader A few years ago, I remember sitting in my car after work with tears rolling down my face. The strange thing? Nothing dramatic had happened. I’d led meetings that day, made decisions, supported people...I'd ticked everything off my list. From the outside, it had been a good day. But inside, I’d spent hours questioning myself. Replaying conversations and wondering whether I’d said the right thing. Focusing on the one piece of challenging feedback instead of everything I’d done well....

Have you ever worked in an organisation with a toxic leader Reader? The kind of leader who tells you how to do your job… even though you were hired because you’re the expert. The one who constantly undermines your role, questions your decisions, goes behind your back, and makes choices that directly affect your work without even speaking to you. That kind of leader. I experienced it in two different organisations. You could say I jumped out of the frying pan and straight into the fire. What I...

Hi Reader, This month I did something I haven't done before. I co-wrote the Blog with someone else. Debbie Bailey is a finance coach and over the past few months, as we kept bumping into the same theme from different directions, it became clear this was something to write and share together . The July edition is called The Cost of Silence. It's about what happens when financial pressure lands inside an organisation and nobody - not the team, not the managers absorbing it, not the leaders...

I recently appeared on the Executive Grooves Podcast, and I ended up talking about my guilty 80's secret Reader Its not often (or ever?) that a leadership podcast chat starts with talking about the music that you listened to as a teenager - so I found myself revealing things that may resonate with you: 80's pop bands learning the lyrics to songs from Smash Hit (which they never got right by the way!) tapping the charts every Sunday, trying to hit pause before the DJ talked over the end. Oh...