It's time to celebrate the success of womenIn the spirit of celebrating the success of women, I want to reflect on the CliftonStrengths profiles of all the female leaders that I admire that I’ve had the opportunity to do CliftonStrengths coaching or workshops with...
With the current global climate, I wanted to share the connection of Estonian Independence Day (24 February) and the power of people and resilience. My husband’s family (where the name Milkop comes from) are Estonian. His grandfather first went to Australia from...
Inspired five years ago by the book ‘Playing Big’ by Tara Mohr, I wrote a letter to my future self. In this book, Tara outlined an exercise called ‘Meet your Inner Mentor’, where you imagined your future self and then wrote a letter to this person. I’ve still got a...
In my strengths coaching (using the CliftonStrengths tool), one of the first questions many clients ask me is the ‘lack’ of a particular strengths domain in their dominant talent themes (dominant talent themes are usually the Top 10 of someone’s CliftonStrengths...
What's the difference between caring versus carrying? I've witnessed many people who are "pre-burnout" at the moment—the last few years have been somewhat intense, for sure. There have been many changes to how we work, live and play. Our daily rhythms turned upside...
What a year it has been!Ka mua, ka muri: Looking back in order to move forward. And what a year it has been. Reflection on both good times and bad provides great understanding and merit in looking towards the future. As the Maori proverb depicts someone walking...
I have had several conversations recently about a general overwhelm many of us are feeling now. We miss freedom and routine, living with certainty, and in a world without restriction. There is a lack of forward scenario planning for the longer term with the prolonged...
Another way to assess your fulfilment is asking, how full is your bucket? Through the ebb and flow of life, fulfilment is something that can sometimes be cast to the wayside, however, when aligned can create a motivated, happier, positive you. So ask yourself, how did...
How do you use your talents? Can you list what they are? One of my coaching methods is the CliftonStrengths® tool (previously known as StrengthsFinder). It’s an online assessment that takes around 30 mins to complete, asking 177 questions, or ‘paired statements’,...
It’s strengths that pull a team together at times like these. So, my diary has done an awful lot of ‘calendar jenga’ these last weeks with the recent Covid lockdown here in NZ. People are postponing in-person workshops, wanting to wait until they can get back...