“Do your thinking once”
Comedians have their catchphrases.
Brands end advertisements with the tagline for the product.
I do the same. One of my favourite catchphrases that I find myself repeating whenever I work with clients is:
“Do your thinking once”
This comes up in a couple of scenarios.
When I first meet with my clients, many of them want to jump straight into “I need to get my CV sorted”. Hold up there! Let’s
“slow down to speed up”
(that’s another one for you). Before you start to put pen to paper or fingers to keyboard, you need to first figure out what it is you want to do. That’s why I begin with a values exercise, where you figure out what your personal values are. Few people have actually sat down to think about what is really important to them at this stage in their life.
Once you have uncovered your own personal values, we think about how do those match with the values of an organisation? What type of industry do you want to be in? What type of location do you want to work at? Do you want to be fully remote? Do you want to be in the office? How long do you want the commute to take you?
Many of the people whom I work with are sent my way by their HR director as their role has become redundant and they are…
