I was watching a TV programme with my daughter the other day called, “Timothy Goes To School“. If you’ve never watched it, it’s a cartoon about a raccoon called Timothy and his class of different animals at their school/kindergarten. It’s one of the few programmes that I personally recommend as “good” TV for children.
Anyway, there [...]

Dealing with aggressive and angry people can be a daunting prospect for many of us. Some people have such a hard time asserting themselves that they become very passive.
One of the easiest ways to deal with someone who is displaying aggressive or angry behaviour is to identify their emotion to them. I find it helpful [...]

Following the theme of my popular post 10 Top Tips for Being Assertive Without Being Aggressive here are my 10 top tips for becoming super-confident (without becoming arrogant).
Many of my clients have becoming more confident on their list of reasons for wanting my life coaching services. For most of them, they can remember a time [...]

Due to popular demand, I’m writing some articles over the next few weeks on assertiveness, confidence and self-esteem. This one is concerned with the art of being assertive without becoming aggressive. From my experience, the majority of people who want to be more assertive are scared to do so because they do not want to [...]

One of the biggest challenges we face when we undergo a process of change is the effect that this has on our friends, families and work colleagues. There is a status quo that we have established over the years that resists the changes we make and this often means that the change is short-lived. In [...]