Balkin Coaching Leadership Insights

“Catch my breath, no one can hold me back, I ain't got time for that” Catching my Breath by Kelly Clarkson (click here for the Song) Photo by Robert Bye on Unsplash “They know I have a good ear, so they talk to me, I know I need to listen because the lockdown has made things more stressful... but my workload has increased, and I don’t know when I am going to get my work done”. Corporate client Many of my clients and readers, this week have told me that they are feeling incr

‘No time to wallow in the mire’ Come on Baby Light My Fire by The Doors. (click here for the Song) (I challenge you to just sit and listen to the instrumental) Personal picture of a coaster. “My boss just gave a day’s notice and resigned. I knew she was burnt out, I noticed the signs a while ago, and had tried to tell her to get help..” . Corporate client Regular readers would be aware that burnout impacts a large percentage of the working population, a figure that is on the

"It’s the good advice that you just didn’t take" Ironic by Alanis Morissette ( click here for the song) Photo by Jonathan Cooper on Unsplash Earlier this week a client began a session a bit exasperated he said to me “My colleague keeps telling me how to do my job, I know she is well meaning but ‘she drives me crazy’… I am really worried I will explode feel and blurt out ‘Just Don’t tell me what to say and don’t tell me what to do’” . ( I don’t think she intentionally quot

“Cause I'm way down in it and I can't breathe so I can't speak I want to be strong and steady, always ready Now I feel so small, I feel so weak Anxiety How do you always get the best of me?" Anxiety Song by Jason Isbell ( click here for the song) It should not take the actions of high profile individuals to remind people to be aware of the need to look after their own mental health and that of their friends and colleagues. Yet the headlines this week of Osaka’s departure fr