A Journey of Transformation and Unlocking The Power of Coaching for Mental Well-being
Coaching is a powerful tool. But often, it’s misunderstood and underrated. Read Jas’s journey and how you too can grasp coaching's potential to bring about transformative changes in your personal and professional life.
A beautiful poem by Alicia McDonnell and her experience of Mastering Your Power
Poem written by Alicia about her experience becoming a Mastering Your Power Coach.
Countering microaggressions to build an inclusive culture
How can organisations empower staff to address unintentional exclusion and microaggressions? We offer some solutions to improve inclusion and engagement.
How far should we be ourselves at work?
“A diverse workplace is a place where challenge and change happen, if everyone thinks and acts the same, progress will be slower,” Says Salma Shah “We must value and acknowledge the strengths of individuality of the talent and the potential this can bring, and in turn empower them to bring their whole selves to work.” People who feel unable to be themselves at work may feel they have to ‘code-switch’, she explains, or mask parts of their personalities in order to get on.
Five warning signs you’re putting on a ‘resilience face’ at work – and how to tackle it
Unfortunately masks aren't just worn for Halloween.
Five warning signs you’re putting on a ‘resilience face’ at work – and how to tackle it. My article first published in Metro.co.uk for Mental Health Awareness Day is a stark reality for many people, and in particular those from minority or under represented groups operating in majority spaces.
Five practical ways to embed inclusion in your workplace, everyday.
If your organisation is finding it challenging to support and retain diverse talent then maybe it’s time we talked about taking a different approach. Understanding how to support employees from minority or under represented groups in a majority space (like the workplace) does need leaders and managers to think differently and we offer coach training and masterclasses to equip your organisations with the skills and tools to do this. Our coaching doesn’t see inclusion ,equity and belonging as an ‘add on’ module but has these themes as the golden thread that runs through it.
Can you tell who is thriving and who is barely surviving?
Leading meetings, delivering on actions, hitting targets…On paper everything looks like your colleague is smashing it. But looks can be deceiving. What is it actually taking that person to deliver?
Top 5 leadership skills needed for a radically inclusive workplace
As leaders we need to embrace radical inclusion. Internally to be open, non-judgemental, reflective, curious about our own personal biases, privilege and assumptions. Externally to understand and have empathy with the lived experiences of those from very different backgrounds, identities, life choices, beliefs, dreams and feelings to us. Here are 5 core leadership skills for a radically inclusive workplace.
Breaking Your Biases Will Help You Liberate Your Team’s Talents
We often operate at our best when we are pushed outside what we know.
So what if I said breaking out of your biases will help you to liberate your team’s talents? Wouldn't you want to work with your biases rather than let them work against you!
Top tips to lead and coach employees with very different life experiences
When coaching or leading someone whose life experiences are very different from ours we may get drawn to playing it safe and feel unsure about asking powerful and challenging questions.
Article commissions and published in We Are The City
Understanding the impact of The Lived Experience
Our work at Mastering Your Power is to understand not only how to coach others but initially how to navigate our own complexities and acknowledging bias, so that we can then support those that we coach to do the same.
But why as individuals are we so complex?
Workplace loneliness and how coaching can help.
At times, taking this path of coaching can be challenging and uncomfortable. You may even feel triggered. For those from a majority group there may be discomfort as themes of privilege and inequity surface. For those from an under-represented group, it will bring to the surface traumas related to past experience. Remember that we are all fragile and we all have bias; it’s how we use this awareness that will make a difference.
Six reasons diversity in coaching is vital
Why do we need more diversity in workplace coaching?
Given the current climate, it’s more important than ever the profession isn’t the sole preserve of in-groups and networks, says Salma Shah, Author and Founder or Mastering Your Power Coaching & Mentoring Programmes.
How Mentoring can help to #BreakTheBias
One of the key merits of our Mastering Your Power Coaching Program is the focus on the individual - identifying the needs and actions for personal growth, and therefore making the skills and techniques applicable to all workplaces irrespective of sector. Here is how Mentoring can help to challenge gender inequality in the workplace.
How Do You Want To Be Remembered?
As experienced coaches, we know how to bring out the best in our clients and how to support them through the changes they’re navigating. We have worked hard to ensure that we understand the nuances of our core coaching competencies.
The Façade of Resilience
I’m sure that, like me, you have worked with clients who believe they are far too tough to experience burnout as well as those who try and outrun burnout with willpower alone. Either way, these clients often sit in front of us with a façade of resilience that can be debilitating.