ABNW Blog

outplacement - supporting your employees during redundancy

The credit crunch is now hitting us all hard and unfortunately companies are now restructuring and budgets are being frozen and people are being made redundant. Is your company providing support to those being made redundant? I worked in Singapore...

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Controlling your career and taking an intelligent approach during uncertain times

We can not pick up a paper or turn on the radio or TV without some gloomy news in relation to the credit crunch. This is now causing problems for many of us with every day costs spiralling and companies...

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students - want some help with your career choices?

While scanning the internet today - yes, i actually had a free moment! I came across this web site: http://www.insidecareers.co.uk/ which provides detailed information on careers for students. Once registered you can: apply for any of the hundreds of graduate...

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Intelligent career how it works

I came across an excellent article on the Intelligent Career today, this paper, written by the founders, explains how the Intelligent Career was developed and how it can be used in organisations - not only for individual career exploration discussions...

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Coaching IS essential to business

This week I read a report that coaching is at last being acknowledged by business, with companies seeing it as an essential part of their training and Talent Management Programmes. Companies are seeing actual commercial benefits and according to a...

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HR Directors Business Summit - a great success for A Brave New World

I have just returned from attending and sponsoring this years HR Directors Business Summit in Birmingham. It has been an exhausting week but hugely rewarding both personally and professionally. A Brave New World were launching their talent management programmes and...

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HR Directors Business Summit 2008

On the 29th and 30th of January, the World Trade Group are hosting the HR Directors Business summit at the Hilton in Birmingham. This is one of the most prestigious and well attended events within the senior HR community. It...

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New year, new career?, new job? promotion?

2008 has begun, happy new year to everyone, I hope that you had a good rest and are now ready for a happy and prosperous 2008.This is a good time to start thinking about your career and planning what you...

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CIPD Career connect workshop

Last night A Brave New World were invited to facilitate a workshop for the CIPD, Career Connect Group. It was a fun and highly interactive evening and the participants, of which all were in some kind of 'career transition' were...

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Self-assessment -

This week, while working with some of A Brave New World's new clients embarking on their career coaching programmes, it has been very rewarding for us to recieve some very positive feedback so early into their 'career coaching' programmes. In...

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Thanks to A Brave New World, I have regained control of my life and am no longer lost in a career that bought me no joy