by Zena Everett | Oct 1, 2018 | Zena Everett's Blog
Being in back to back meetings is nothing to be proud of. Don’t waste your precious talent in pointless meetings. Avoid horrors like this… Sounds familiar? You have ten full-time team members. Each one attends four internal meetings a week, booked into...
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 | Jun 28, 2018 | Zena Everett's Blog
Do you remember that fairy tale we were told when we were kids, about helpful little elves that snuck into your house when everyone was asleep, did all the chores, laid the fire, made the breakfast and then flew away before anyone woke up and saw them? That’s what...
by Zena Everett | Jun 17, 2018 | Zena Everett's Blog
One of the greatest challenges when working for yourself is establishing your fee levels. A hard lesson I learnt when I moved into freelance coaching and speaking is that having a booked up diary isn’t always the smart option. It is easy to be overworked and underpaid...
by Zena Everett | Jun 7, 2018 | Zena Everett's Blog
There’s nothing like exam time to highlight our universal tendency to procrastinate. Colouring in a revision diary instead of actually revising, or in my case when studying a mid-career masters, developing a daily desire to polish my oven before opening up my laptop....
by Zena Everett | Mar 20, 2018 | Zena Everett's Blog
D-Day Veteran Bryson William Verdun Hayes, known as Verdun, shows us how to have fun – he’s the oldest British skydiver at 101 years and 38 days. He broke the record by completing a tandem skydive with three generations of his family in Devon in May 2017...
