by Alison Burgess | Jun 17, 2019 | Confidence, Self Belief, Value Yourself |
People will often ask me about confidence and age. Does confidence develop with time, is there a point that our confidence starts to decline? Confidence may vary with age but growth certainly isn’t a straight line. There are some well publicised and quite worrying...
by Alison Burgess | May 13, 2019 | Confidence, Value Yourself |
I have noticed over the last 12 months or so that I have joined a new club. Its called the “women of a certain age” club. I dont know how I joined it, have no idea what the criteria was to join and to be honest I have no idea what age “a certain...
by Alison Burgess | May 8, 2018 | Confidence, Self Belief, Value Yourself |
Watching the new last night I was shocked that in the space of 5 minutes, two separate news stories highlighted to me how important it is to value others, building confidence in those around us. In a story about mistakes being made in breast screening, a woman in her...
by Alison Burgess | Mar 5, 2018 | Confidence, Value Yourself |
100 years from when (some) women in the UK got the vote, and in the week of International Womens Day it seems only appropriate to think about the importance of role models. A role model is someone who inspires you and exhibits the behaviours, values and abilities you...
by Alison Burgess | Feb 20, 2017 | Confidence, Resilience, Value Yourself, Work-Life Balance |
I have always found the phrase work-life balance to be a little misleading. The immediate thought that comes to mind is a set of scales, evenly weighted on both sides, but that implies some sort of 50:50 split of time, energy etc, and I don’t know many people whose...
by Alison Burgess | Feb 13, 2017 | Confidence, Resilience, Value Yourself |
As a training consultant and also as the chair of a cancer support charity, I come across the need for developing resilience daily. From a team under intense pressure to deliver to an individual having to cope with a serious illness. life presents us with challenges...
