by Nikki Alderson | Jul 3, 2021 | Achievement, Action planning, Ambition, Authenticity, Beliefs, Business Coaching, business development, Business Focus, businessmodel, career break return, career progression, Challenge, Change, Confidence, Courage, Empowerment, Focus, Goals, Learning and Development, Life balance, mentaltoughness, Mentoring, mindset, motivation, patience, performance, Planning, Positive Outcomes, positivity, Priorities, Productivity, Progression, Resilience, Results, Routine, Self belief, Success, Time Management, Time Ownership, Values, Vision, Women, working from home, Working Parent, workingparents, Workshops, Yorkshire, Zoom Coaching
A 2-minute read outlining 3 steps to help you manage change and achieve career goals Plan “A goal without a plan is just a wish” – Antoine de Saint Exupery When I started my coaching business as a full-time mum, snatching every nook and cranny of time, the idea that...
by Nikki Alderson | Apr 6, 2021 | career break, Career Break Returner, career progression, coaching, Communication, Confidence, female lawyers, Flexible Working, maternity leave, mindset, motivation, Priorities, Productivity, Role Models, talentretention, Time Ownership, womenlawyers, Working Parent
A four-minute read. Aimed at law firm HR leaders overseeing women during maternity leave but equally applicable to other professions and anyone planning a career break return. I was thrilled to see a barrister’s recent account of her “really positive” experience of...
by Nikki Alderson | Mar 3, 2021 | Confidence, Flexible Working, Furlough, Time Ownership, wellbeing, Working Parent, workingparents
(Anonymised, italicised quotes from Social Media Contributors, with thanks) Isn’t it Ironic? There is a certain irony that on International Women’s Day, 8th March 2021, the schools in England re-open after the third lockdown since 20th March 2020. This year’s theme is...
by Nikki Alderson | Jul 30, 2019 | Balance, Barrister, Barristers, boundaries, Career, Challenge, Communication, flexibleworking, Life balance, Priorities, Productivity, saying no, Success, Time Management, Working Parent
Link to my latest article for Counsel Magazine which caused something of a Twitter-storm! https://www.counselmagazine.co.uk/articles/how-to-be-a-barrister-and-parent-and-succeed-at-both
by Nikki Alderson | Jul 1, 2019 | Balance, Barrister, Career, distraction, Lawyers, Planning, Priorities, Productivity, wellbeing, Working Parent
School’s Out for Summer As the countdown to “school’s out” starts in earnest, are you ready for the impending onslaught of routine and pace change? The start of July is the month where suddenly reality bites around the internal conflict of wanting to spend time...
by Nikki Alderson | Mar 7, 2019 | Barristers, businessmodel, Career Break Returner, culture, flexibleworking, harassment, judicialbullying, Law Firms, Lawyers, Mentoring, talentretention, unconscious bias, Wellness, Working Parent
International Women’s Day, March 8th 2019 There is much to celebrate today, International Women’s Day 2019, reflecting on the last 100 years of women in law. I was at the Temple Women’s Forum last week, doing precisely that, with the likes of Baroness Helena Kennedy...
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