by Zena Everett | Oct 7, 2019 | Uncategorized, Zena Everett's Blog
GEORGE CLOONEY, UP IN THE AIR, Business travel was once seen as a perk that only executives with generous expense accounts got to enjoy. Nowadays we’re all packing our wheelie bags and breaking out of the daily grind. Are we really living the...
by Zena Everett | Sep 12, 2019 | Uncategorized, Zena Everett's Blog
Here’s eight questions to ask every Monday to help you handle the pressure, stay focused and feel in control of your work. First we’ll look at why the responsibility for this sits with you. There’s a trite saying that pressure must be healthy because...
by Zena Everett | Jul 17, 2018 | Uncategorized, Zena Everett's Blog
Do you already feel overwhelmed, with too much work to do and not enough time to do it in? How do you cope when you are asked to do even MORE? The first step is to weigh up the value of the extra work. Is it career-enhancing: giving you extra skills, networks or...
by Zena Everett | Feb 8, 2018 | Uncategorized, Zena Everett's Blog
Are you sick of wasting precious time in pointless, long, unplanned, badly facilitated, waffling, unstructured, distracted, ego-filled, hi-jacked, delayed and all round screamingly frustrating meetings? People constantly complain to me about the amount of time they...
by Zena Everett | Jan 17, 2018 | Uncategorized, Zena Everett's Blog
A fed-up 50-something Finance Director wrote to me recently, saying that she keeps getting turned down for new roles ‘because of her age’. I asked her what evidence she had that her age is the reason for the rejection and if the problem possibly lay...
by Zena Everett | Nov 22, 2017 | Uncategorized, Zena Everett's Blog
I still doubt myself every single day. What people believe is my self-confidence is actually my reaction to fear.”—Will Smith All of us are susceptible to negative thoughts like this at some point in our careers. They are like giant banana skins waiting to trip us up....
