by SaraSwati Shakti | Nov 12, 2018 | Career, Change, Coaching, Self-Leadership
Personal Branding is one of the key aspects of professional positioning. And one of the most significant ways to express it is in your resume, CV, or bio document. Such a document, has two specific benefits: It is personal and encapsulating to you, as it describes...
by SaraSwati Shakti | Mar 3, 2018 | Change, Coaching, Self-Leadership
There is a large liquid amber tree in my front garden. It changes, through seasons, into beautiful multi-hued colour. And with Sydney’s long, hot, Summers, it usually sustains it’s greenery, well into Autumn, for much longer. Yet this year, unmistakably,...
by SaraSwati Shakti | Sep 20, 2017 | Career, Change, Coaching, Development, Self-Leadership
Change changes you. Isn’t it true. And that’s what I observed in some beautiful tales of journeying in the stunning documentary Walking the Camino, Six Ways to Santiago, that I watched again recently. Have you seen it? It helped me to ponder on the...
by SaraSwati Shakti | Aug 23, 2017 | Career, Development, Self-Leadership
Working with people in career decision can sometimes involve, what I call, a big-life transition. Where they find, or decide, that what they have built no longer sufficiently fits the bill, nor adequately fulfils their joy and destiny’s will. They have come to a...
by SaraSwati Shakti | Jul 4, 2017 | Change, Coaching, Self-Leadership
Occasionally, when it seems appropriate, I see couples during transition coaching programs. On one such occasion a new coachee saw me for an initial appointment. He was referred to me by a caring colleague. I saw in him, underneath the discussion, a brokenness that I...
by SaraSwati Shakti | May 15, 2017 | Change, Personal Development, Self-Leadership
One of the difficulties that presents, in moving seamlessly through transitions, is ruminating about the past. The should have’s, the could have’s, and the wish I had’s, that can cling to the psyche, with persistence. And it often comes up when...
