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ARTICLES :: PHOENIX ASHES : career re-ignition
Phoenix Ashes' job is to reignite your career. Unlike many consultants, she doesn't hold the blowtorch, but helps you bright sparks to reignite it yourself, being a sounding board and practical listening ear, helping you to think through your options, both obvious and lateral. These may be tough times in The City, but there is bright light at the end of the tunnel. Phoenix is direct, and a little cheeky, but her heart's in the right place and much that is positive can come from all the experiences you have from your hard graft in The City.
Good Learning and Development Decisions for a Bad Downturn
As a company who does career strategy and outplacement support and talent management, specifically employer engagement and employer branding, Energise find it hugely ironic and paradoxical that thousands of people are losing their jobs in this downturn when actually there is a worldwide skills and talent shortage. Before the downturn, which is bound to be furrowing the brow of many a CEO, the worldwide shortage of talent was the no 1 challenge preoccupying them. more >>
Marketing Your Business Through a Downturn
When the chips are down, the future uncertain and budgets tight, it's easy to cut areas like marketing which are perceived as less essential than staff salaries and rent/rates. Compared with some areas of expenditure, the return on investment for Marketing is harder to prove and so it is often the area that gets cut first, along with training and learning and development. However, research proves that companies who market their way through challenging times come up trumps. more >>
Career Crossroads
Career crossroads occur at the following times: redundancy or the option on voluntary redundancy or early retirement; a ‘landmark’ birthday, especially 30, 40 and 50; planning to or having children; working in ‘young’ industries such as advertising and the acting profession; a bereavement or end of a relationship and your boss leaving. more >>
Insight Mining
I am absolutely passionate about insights. They are such wonderful things that have magic in them, both insights about problems, challenges or situations and self-insights, things that aid self-awareness and personal growth. more >>
Stress Management
What is stress?
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How to Handle Redundancy Well and Engage Employees
“When the winds of change blow, some people build windmills, others build walls.” Anonymous
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