Welcome to Conscious Growth We all have, on some level, a sense of presence - most people assume their work speaks for itself but managing your brand, your presence and how you come across is key in the workplace. How does what you say and how you behave actually land with the people you are interacting with? How intentional are you in your communication? How do you want to be seen? What feedback have you sought? Your presence is both verbal and non-verbal and quite often, ma...

Welcome to Conscious Growth, this is our 13th podcast - no matter where we are on the globe, Covid 19 has impacted us all in one way or another. The whole working landscape changed in March 2019 and we had to spend time adjusting to a virtual workplace, familiarising ourselves with new technology, it was a very different approach to meetings and touch bases; working in a virtual world worked well for some - however, for others, it represented a whole new level of pressure and stress. &nb...

Welcome to Conscious Growth, this is our 12th podcast and in this one, we discuss emotional intelligence. Emotions are everywhere - in fact, emotions guide every decision we make, we are nearly always in an emotion (even when we are trying to be emotionless!), we may not show emotion but our bodies are secreting hormones and we are constantly interpreting the world around us, perceiving and assessing it and experiencing a sensation - an emotion  We know that emotions drive our beh...

Welcome to Conscious Growth, this is our 11th podcast and in this episode we invited Sheane Keane onto the podcast to discuss Mindfulness. Our lives are busy and never more has it been so important to take care of ourselves and focus on our own well-being. The word Mindfulness is in vogue, we hear it all the time, however many of us aren’t clear on what it is and what it isn’t, so we thought it would be interesting to explore it in a bit of detail; why it’s important, what it does and how it ...

Welcome to Conscious Growth, this is our tenth podcast. Following on from our previous one, Concerning Trends with Remote Working, we were specifically asked to cover how to have a great impact on video calls. Here, we chat through what gets in the way, what are the things we find difficult and how we can represent our best selves in a one-to-one or team capacity. We cover the technology, the camera set-up, your set-up, sound and lighting, we chat through the importance of prep and a few othe...

Welcome to Conscious Growth, this is our ninth podcast. We originally set out to create a library of podcasts that we could refer clients to - or a reference library that would serve as a useful series of stand-alone podcasts for individuals who don't avail of coaching or training. The intention is to provide listeners with tools, techniques and insights that will be useful for them to apply in their own lives. This one is different. We want to speak to business owners, HRBPs and Learning &am...

Welcome to Conscious Growth, this is our eighth podcast and in this one, we talk about resilience. During these times of Covid and forced lockdown, the landscape for all of us has changed dramatically and our ability to deal with our new circumstances varies from person to person. Resilience is the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties, change or setbacks - some of us seem naturally resilient and bounce back quickly and some of us just don't. The good news is that one's capacity for r...

Welcome to Conscious Growth, this is our seventh podcast and it's all about changing roles. Whether you have been promoted internally into a new role, or have a new role as a result of a restructure or indeed if you have come into a new org from 'the outside' (or another situation) - either which way, it can be both exciting and daunting - and so being prepared and setting yourself up for success is a must. In this podcast, we chat through the importance of understanding your key transi...

Welcome to Conscious Growth, this is our sixth podcast (six podcasts in six weeks - woohoo!) - this one is all about conflict. Conflict is inevitable and shouldn't be avoided, it just needs to be managed. Typically, conflict happens when we have a difference of opinion or conflicting perspectives - in this podcast, we chat through both external and internal conflict and provide you with some practical tips to support you in moving forward; be it having a difficult conversation with someone, o...

Welcome to Conscious Growth, this is our fifth podcast and it's all about stress in work. Stress is inevitable, we all experience it, the key is to not let it go on for a prolonged period of time - so we need to figure out where our stress is coming from and to develop strategies on how to best alleviate or manage it. This podcast is about understanding what stress is, why we get stressed and how we respond to it - we share some of our own stories and have included some practical tips on what...

Welcome to Conscious Growth, this is our fourth podcast and this one is all about feedback. In this session we discuss how to give feedback, how to receive it and how to seek it. We also chat through the purpose of feedback, why it's important and what the implications are when it goes wrong. We have shared a number of our own stories and have included some practical tips - we hope you find them useful when giving, receiving or seeking your own feedback!

Welcome to Conscious Growth #3 - Stepping into other People's ShoesObviously stepping into other people's shoes is a metaphor :) However, irrespective of what type of communication you are going to have, if you are not clear on the recipient's standpoint, how are you going to be able to deliver that piece of communication pin accurately, and focus on a win:win outcome? Your intention is one thing, how you have impact is quite another - in this podcast we explore things to think about when con...

Welcome to Conscious Growth #2 - Getting out of your own way!There are times where we have an idea of something we want to do and get stuck with following it through - this podcast is about understanding how we use our body to make decisions, how we can identify where and why we get stuck, and what we can do to lift the blockage and move forward.Our Spotify and Itunes podcast is 34 minutes, and the YouTube version (with video) is shortened at 15 minutes and includes the information only...