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Making Your Future Work – Consider a Portfolio Executive workstyle
Enjoying your work after seventy: How much responsibility do you want?
Making Your Future Work – Develop a Side Hustle
Making Your Future Work – Get Experience as a Board Member
On your bike! A response to poverty in older people
Lifestyle Business versus a Death-style Business.
Making Your Future Work – Plan your exit from full-time employment.
What I have learned from helping to develop the Adaptability of others.
Making your Future Work: Assess Your Future Work Prospect Score
Getting Enjoyment Beyond your Niche
What is Most Important to You for Your 2nd Half Career?
Is Your Corporate Relationship on Life Support?
Reassess what you want from your job – Making Your Future Work
When is it time to start thinking about your 2nd Half Career?
Is there Life beyond Meaningless Meetings for my Future Work?
How can I Multitask as a Portfolio Executive?
12 Key Attitudes for Success: Attitude to Failure
12 Key Attitudes for Success: Attitude to Risk
10 Reasons that Becoming an Entrepreneur Won’t Make my Future Work
12 Key Attitudes for Success: Attitude to Learning
10 reasons why being a Contractor won’t Make my Future Work
Mental Health – How to Manage your Mental Health
10 reasons why being an Independent Consultant will not Make my Future Work
10 reasons that being an interim won’t make my future work
Mental Health – Focus and Passion
Why full time professional employment won’t Make your Future Work
How can I make the most of my holidays as a Portfolio Executive?
Essential 8: Financial Freedom
12 Key Attitudes for Success: Attitude to Self
Essential 7: Building your Support Team
12 Key Attitudes for Success: Attitude to Challenge
Becoming Part of the Portfolio Executive Community
Essential 6: Know your true talents
12 Key Attitudes for Success: Attitude to Planning
Essential 5: Your Personal Brand
12 Key Attitudes for Success: Attitude to Gratitude
Mental Health – Psychotic or Self-managing?
Making your Future Work: Is your future doing what you love and loving what you do?
Essential 4: Courage to Succeed
12 Key Attitudes for Success: Attitude to Change
12 Key Attitudes for Success: Attitude to Opportunity
6 steps to creating a 2nd Half Career
The Challenge of Purpose and Passion
Making your Future Work: Is four days a week enough to love what you do?
Freedom & Joy – is This as Good as it Gets?
Making your Future Work: Dare to dream for fresh love at work
Making your Future Work: Is it Time to Work for Yourself?
Have you Futureproofed your Working Life?
Can I earn enough as a Portfolio Executive?
10 good reasons why you should not become a Portfolio Executive (2 of 2)
Making your Future Work: Getting a KickStart for your career.
Making your Future Work: Work and University – Do I need to do both?
Apply or Pitch? Having Courage for a Future you can Love
Making your Future Work – Deepening the love for what you do.
Making the most of your Family as a Portfolio Executive.
Making your Future Work: Sacked! finding a future you can love
Making your Future Work: Taking a Sabbatical – renewing your love for what you do
Upgrading your Portfolio
Why a Virtual Assistant is a great Portfolio Executive role model
Key Persons of Influence and the Portfolio Executive workstyle
Should you have a side hustle?
Do I have to run a business to be a Portfolio Executive?
Financial Freedom: Preparing for your 2nd Half Career
Eight Essentials for Freedom and Joy at Work
Working until you are 100 – freedom or slavery?
I am too busy to find clients
From success to significance
Can I only be a Portfolio Executive?
Are we all millenials now?
What must you do before you quit for your 2nd Half Career?
Ageism – Victim or Victor? You have a clear choice.
Building your runway for Portfolio Executive lift off
IR35 changes: should I stop being an interim, contractor or independent consultant?
There’s no age limit on daring to dream
Should your employer control your love life?
10 things we learn from Megxit?
Becoming a Coach is not necessarily your golden ticket.
So, you want to be an entrepreneur? Here’s a different route.
Becoming an interim…. it doesn’t come without risks
Contracting … why it’s the career fix that fails
Finding freedom from the relentless cult of work
What does ‘permanent full-time salaried’ employment really mean?
Why you should consider the charity sector as part of your Portfolio Executive work style
Are corporates having a mid-life crisis?
Worried about your executive career? There’s a perfect storm ahead!
Are these career frustrations making you re-think your plans at half-time?
How to demonstrate your value as a Portfolio Executive
Are you ready to jump – or will you wait to be pushed?
Have you got your 2nd Half Career game plan?
If only I knew then what I know now
Want freedom from the rat race, doing what you love?
5 Tips to get started in a Portfolio Career
What could it mean for you to be a Portfolio Executive?
Making Your Future Work – Consider a Portfolio Executive workstyle
Making Your Future Work – Develop a Side Hustle
The Power of a Manifesto
What I have learned from helping others understand their Adaptability: Environment
Know the Season – 1 of 2
Making Your Future Work – Get Experience as a Board Member
On your bike! A response to poverty in older people
What I have learned from helping others understand their Adaptability: Character
Lifestyle Business versus a Death-style Business.
Making Your Future Work – Plan your exit from full-time employment.
The Capability Attitude: Build not fix
Making your Future Work: Assess Your Future Work Prospect Score
Making your Future Work: Maximizing your learning and development
Making your Future Work: Plan your Promotion from Day One
The stages to becoming an effective Portfolio Executive (Part 2 of 2)
The stages to becoming an effective Portfolio Executive (Part 1 of 2)
Making your future work : Make the most of your first 90 days
What is Most Important to You for Your 2nd Half Career?
Making your future work – Negotiate the workstyle you really want
Transitioning to a Freelance Workstyle: Part 2 of 2
Transitioning to a Freelance Workstyle: Part 1
Is Your Corporate Relationship on Life Support?
Transitioning from Interim to Portfolio Executive workstyle
Transitioning from Independent Consultant to Portfolio Executive
When is it time to start thinking about your 2nd Half Career?
Can I be a Portfolio Executive if I’m not a Chartered Professional?
Using a four-day week to Start a Portfolio Executive workstyle
Can I be a Portfolio Executive if I’m over 60?
Can I be a Portfolio Executive if I have no Network?
How can I Multitask as a Portfolio Executive?
Rejecting Client Feedback – The Arrogance Trap?
Can I be a Portfolio Executive if I can’t Sell?
10 Reasons that Becoming an Entrepreneur Won’t Make my Future Work
12 Key Attitudes for Success: Attitude to Learning
10 reasons why being a Contractor won’t Make my Future Work
10 reasons why being an Independent Consultant will not Make my Future Work
10 reasons that being an interim won’t make my future work
Why full time professional employment won’t Make your Future Work
How can I make the most of my holidays as a Portfolio Executive?
Cash versus Investment for a Portfolio Executive
My Portfolio Executive Website
Becoming Part of the Portfolio Executive Community
Essential 6: Know your true talents
Essential 5: Your Personal Brand
What’s the difference between an Independent Consultant and a Portfolio Executive?
12 Key Attitudes for Success: Attitude to Change
12 Key Attitudes for Success: Attitude to Opportunity
Enabling people to buy through powerful conversations
6 steps to creating a 2nd Half Career
Audio Podcasting and the Portfolio Executive
Video and the Portfolio Executive
Is referral and networking enough to build my Portfolio Executive workstyle?
Writer’s blocks: a couple of hacks to break through to writing regular content for LinkedIn and your own website.
Have you Futureproofed your Working Life?
Building a Pipeline of Opportunities
Am I too young to be a Portfolio Executive?
10 good reasons why you should not become a Portfolio Executive (1 of 2)
Can I really be a Portfolio Executive? Part 2
Can I really be a Portfolio Executive? Part 1
Starting a Conversation with a Potential Client
Making your Future Work: Sacked! finding a future you can love
Upgrading your Portfolio
What Qualifications do I need to be a Portfolio Executive?
Goldilocks and the Portfolio Executive
I’ve tried being an Independent Consultant and now I want to be a Portfolio Executive
Portfolio Executive: DIY or …
Key Persons of Influence and the Portfolio Executive workstyle
Should you have a side hustle?
Do I have to run a business to be a Portfolio Executive?
Taking the career long view
Preparing your Network for your Portfolio Executive Workstyle
Eight Essentials for Freedom and Joy at Work
Working until you are 100 – freedom or slavery?
Who should I pay to help me be a Non-Executive Director (NED)?
Why Consulting is Not Fit for Purpose
From success to significance
Are we all millenials now?
Selling your 2nd Half Career to your Current Employer
Ten Pitfalls to avoid in setting up your 2nd Half Career
What must you do before you quit for your 2nd Half Career?
The power of becoming a Trusted Advisor
Portfolio Executive: what about using an intermediary
Ageism – Victim or Victor? You have a clear choice.
Do I need to be a key person of influence?
Have I got the right professional background to become a Portfolio Executive
Building your runway for Portfolio Executive lift off
When interim roles no longer hold their appeal
IR35 changes: should I stop being an interim, contractor or independent consultant?
There’s no age limit on daring to dream
What do I need to start my Portfolio Executive business?
Should your employer control your love life?
10 things we learn from Megxit?
Turning disappointment into positivity as a Portfolio Executive
Building the right networks as a Portfolio Executive
Becoming a Coach is not necessarily your golden ticket.
So, you want to be an entrepreneur? Here’s a different route.
Becoming an interim…. it doesn’t come without risks
Contracting … why it’s the career fix that fails
Finding freedom from the relentless cult of work
What does ‘permanent full-time salaried’ employment really mean?
Why you should consider the charity sector as part of your Portfolio Executive work style
Are corporates having a mid-life crisis?
Worried about your executive career? There’s a perfect storm ahead!
Are these career frustrations making you re-think your plans at half-time?
How to demonstrate your value as a Portfolio Executive
Are you ready to jump – or will you wait to be pushed?
Have you got your 2nd Half Career game plan?
If only I knew then what I know now
Want freedom from the rat race, doing what you love?
5 Tips to get started in a Portfolio Career
The Power of a Manifesto
Managing Your First Client
Portfolio Executive – Enabling Others to Buy
Using a four-day week to Start a Portfolio Executive workstyle
Can I be a Portfolio Executive if I have no Network?
Enabling people to buy through powerful conversations
Starting a Conversation with a Potential Client
Success in Crisis
Upgrading your Portfolio
Selling your 2nd Half Career to your Current Employer
What must you do before you quit for your 2nd Half Career?
You need to define your clients’ success
What do I need to start my Portfolio Executive business?
Why you should consider the charity sector as part of your Portfolio Executive work style
How to demonstrate your value as a Portfolio Executive
5 Tips to get started in a Portfolio Career
Enjoying your work after 70 – Picking the right location and the right clients
Know the Season: Part 2
The Power of a Manifesto
Making Your Future Work – Get Experience as a Board Member
Making Your Future Work – Plan your exit from full-time employment.
The Capability Attitude: Build not fix
Portfolio Executive – Enabling Others to Buy
Why becoming a Professor can make all the Difference to your Portfolio Executive Workstyle
Can I be a Portfolio Executive if I’m not a Chartered Professional?
Rejecting Client Feedback – The Arrogance Trap?
Can I be a Portfolio Executive if I can’t Sell?
My Portfolio Executive Website
What’s the difference between an Independent Consultant and a Portfolio Executive?
Audio Podcasting and the Portfolio Executive
Video and the Portfolio Executive
Writer’s blocks: a couple of hacks to break through to writing regular content for LinkedIn and your own website.
Can I earn enough as a Portfolio Executive?
Starting a Conversation with a Potential Client
Who do you want to be known as on LinkedIn?
Upgrading your Portfolio
What Qualifications do I need to be a Portfolio Executive?
Goldilocks and the Portfolio Executive
Why a Virtual Assistant is a great Portfolio Executive role model
Do I have to run a business to be a Portfolio Executive?
Taking the career long view
Preparing your Network for your Portfolio Executive Workstyle
Eight Essentials for Freedom and Joy at Work
Understanding Referrers and Connectors
I am too busy to find clients
Who should I pay to help me be a Non-Executive Director (NED)?
Why Consulting is Not Fit for Purpose
From success to significance
Can I only be a Portfolio Executive?
Are we all millenials now?
Selling your 2nd Half Career to your Current Employer
Finding the right size business for your Portfolio Executive Workstyle
Ten Pitfalls to avoid in setting up your 2nd Half Career
A little work will make your pension go so much further.
What must you do before you quit for your 2nd Half Career?
The power of becoming a Trusted Advisor
Portfolio Executive: what about using an intermediary
Maintaining a part-time role
How to use a diagnostic as an effective sales tool
Ageism – Victim or Victor? You have a clear choice.
Do I need to be a key person of influence?
Have I got the right professional background to become a Portfolio Executive
Building your runway for Portfolio Executive lift off
When interim roles no longer hold their appeal
IR35 changes: should I stop being an interim, contractor or independent consultant?
What do I need to start my Portfolio Executive business?
Turning disappointment into positivity as a Portfolio Executive
Building the right networks as a Portfolio Executive
Becoming a Coach is not necessarily your golden ticket.
So, you want to be an entrepreneur? Here’s a different route.
Becoming an interim…. it doesn’t come without risks
Contracting … why it’s the career fix that fails
Why you should consider the charity sector as part of your Portfolio Executive work style
Worried about your executive career? There’s a perfect storm ahead!
How to demonstrate your value as a Portfolio Executive
Have you got your 2nd Half Career game plan?
Want freedom from the rat race, doing what you love?
5 Tips to get started in a Portfolio Career
Upgrading your Portfolio
Do I have to run a business to be a Portfolio Executive?
I am too busy to find clients
Pricing as a Portfolio Executive
A little work will make your pension go so much further.
Why you should consider the charity sector as part of your Portfolio Executive work style
Want freedom from the rat race, doing what you love?
Know the Season: Part 2
Making Your Future Work – Get Experience as a Board Member
Making Your Future Work – Plan your exit from full-time employment.
Is my Portfolio Executive Workstyle Making my Future Work?
How can I Multitask as a Portfolio Executive?
Rejecting Client Feedback – The Arrogance Trap?
Enabling people to buy through powerful conversations
Video and the Portfolio Executive
Is referral and networking enough to build my Portfolio Executive workstyle?
Building a Pipeline of Opportunities
Starting a Conversation with a Potential Client
Upgrading your Portfolio
Goldilocks and the Portfolio Executive
I’ve tried being an Independent Consultant and now I want to be a Portfolio Executive
Understanding Referrers and Connectors
I am too busy to find clients
Why Consulting is Not Fit for Purpose
Selling your 2nd Half Career to your Current Employer
Finding the right size business for your Portfolio Executive Workstyle
Winning and keeping clients: Capability Maturity diagnostic
Maintaining a part-time role
How to use a diagnostic as an effective sales tool
You need to define your clients’ success
Building the right networks as a Portfolio Executive
Why you should consider the charity sector as part of your Portfolio Executive work style
How to demonstrate your value as a Portfolio Executive
Is my Portfolio Executive Workstyle Making my Future Work?
Mental Health – How to Manage your Mental Health
Why full time professional employment won’t Make your Future Work
I’ve tried being an Independent Consultant and now I want to be a Portfolio Executive
Is Ageism a Myth?
I am too busy to find clients
Turning disappointment into positivity as a Portfolio Executive
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