Episode 26 - Jo Miles - Master Your Transition

Today’s guest is Jo Miles. Jo is an Executive Coach and the founder of Master Your Transition, her Coaching and Consulting business. Drawing upon two decades of Management Consulting and Coaching expertise, Jo empowers and supports individuals, teams and organisations to explore challenges, gain insight and take practical steps to achieve and sustain change. Jo is a Coach and trusted advisor to senior Partners at some of the worlds biggest consulting firms and has worked with clients at the likes of Strategy &, Baringa Partners and North Highland to name but a few. We cover some really interesting topics in today’s interview including: How Jo became a Coach What Coaching is, who should consider it and why it’s important for your career. The common challenges Jo finds clients struggle with and her advice on how to deal with them How you can tell a good Coach from a bad one and the questions you should ask when assessing whether a Coach is right for you. The importance of using Coaching as a positive tool for improvement and not a negative tool to deal with poor performance And much much more! Jo was a great guest and gave some fantastic insights in to an area of the industry that many people have heard about but very few have experienced. If you’re looking to take your career to the next level and want to understand more about how Coaching can help you do this then this interview is a must listen! You can find out more about Master Your Transition at http://www.masteryourtransition.co.uk/  You can find out more about Jo on Linked In at https://www.linkedin.com/in/joanna-miles-0283461/  Specific things we discuss in this show: Selecting your Coach – following our interview Jo wanted to add a key point on how to select your coach related to understanding their CPD. Enter Jo: “Please note that CPD can mean attending conferences, training courses, academic lectures and supervision.  Supervision is an important aspect of CPD, as it shows Coaches are consciously seeking to develop themselves and their practice through working with a supervisor” Tatiana bachkirova - https://www.brookes.ac.uk/business/about/staff/myprofile/?wid=bus-academic-list&op=full&uid=p0035809 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey - http://amzn.eu/d/62NyrJC The Chimp Paradox by Stephen Peters - http://amzn.eu/d/3aF7ggs Triggers by Marshall Goldsmith and Mark Reiter - http://amzn.eu/d/3c1Obmh   Intelligence In The Flesh by Guy Claxton - http://amzn.eu/d/8V5Mv2Z Act Like A Leader, Think Like A Leader by Herminia Ibarra - http://amzn.eu/d/8j85oGk   Presence by Amy Cuddy - http://amzn.eu/d/9M6cIKx    Amy Cuddy’s TED Talk on Power Poses - https://www.ted.com/talks/amy_cuddy_your_body_language_shapes_who_you_are?language=en   Mastery by Robert Greene - http://amzn.eu/d/7yuT5uP

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As a management consultant myself I’ve always been lucky to have mentors who have guided me through my career. When I was in house I regularly had quality time with Senior Partners that helped me rapidly accelerate my career and has continued to help since I’ve gone out on my own. While I had this great resource and knowledge bank to draw on I know many friends in Consulting aren’t as lucky with some only speaking with senior partners on a monthly or quarterly basis. That’s why I created this podcast. I wanted to help people like you who want to accelerate their careers in consulting by interviewing leaders in the field to share the advice, tips and strategies that they used to get to the top so that you can to so that you can too. In each Episode I’ll be interviewing a senior figure in the industry so that you can learn from them. We’ll be going deep in to their background, how they succeeded and what their advice would be for you. This podcast is brought to you by Create Engage the Digital Marketing agency for the disruptive Management Consultancy. Digital Marketing has moved forward, but most consulting firms haven’t. Many Consulting firms still see their corporate blog as their sole Digital Marketing channel and find themselves frustrated when these blogs yield little if any results. To help those of you who want to harness the power of Digital Marketing to grow your Consulting Business but don’t have the knowledge, capacity or in-house capability to do so I launched Create Engage, the first Digital Marketing agency for the Management Consulting Industry. If you’d like to find out more about how Create Engage can help you use Digital Marketing to take your business to the next level then drop me an email at Nick@CreateEngage.co.uk or go to our website www.createengage.co.uk where you can download our free case study that breaks down down the Digital Marketing strategies used by one successful Consulting firm to help them grow over 400% in just 3 years and gives you the secrets they used, so that you can apply them in your own firm.