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- Today40 min
Noise & Nonsense - Why You Still Take the Bait (And How to Stop)
You can see the bait coming. You know exactly what's happening. And you still take it. Sound familiar? Today's episode is about the gap between knowing and doing, between recognising workplace bait and actually leaving it alone. We go deep into the neuroscience of why this happens (the amygdala hijack), why difficult workplaces make it worse, and how to build critical thinking as a daily muscle that works even under pressure. Plus an anonymous case study in the most sophisticated form of workplace bait - the kind that doesn't look like bait at all.Book your free Career Clarity Call.
- 1 weeks ago31 min
Circle of Influence - Where Your Power Actually Lives
How much of your energy this week went toward things you can actually change? Most of us, especially in difficult workplaces, spend enormous mental and emotional energy on things that are simply not ours to move. Today we revisit one of the most enduring frameworks in professional development, Stephen Covey's Circles of Influence, and bring it to life with the latest resilience research, Brené Brown's wisdom on courage and authenticity, Viktor Frankl's philosophy on the space between stimulus and response, and Mel Robbins' two-minute morning practice that makes it all immediately usable. Plain language, no jargon, no reinventing the wheel. Just the most useful idea in professional development, made real for your Monday morning, or any other morning for that matter.Book your Career Clarity Call
- 1 weeks ago27 min
May the 4th Be With You - Using the Force of Your Own Instincts
Happy belated Star Wars Day! This week we're staying in the world of The Devil Wears Prada - but instead of Miranda, we'retalking about Andy. Because Andy's journey is the story of someone who walked into a noisy, controlling environment with a clear internal compass, and slowly, without fully noticing, had it replaced by someone else's. Sound familiar? Today we talk about why we lose trust in our own instincts in difficult workplaces, what the research says about rebuilding self-trust, and five practical ways to reconnect with your own internal compass - your professional force - when the noise has been loud for too long.Book a Career Clarity Call: https://calendly.com/peggymcknight-info/career-clarity-call
- 3 weeks ago30 min
Noise and Nonsense - Recognizing the Workplace Baiter
Some of the most toxic moments at work don't come with raised voices or obvious confrontations. They come quietly a loaded comment, a pointed question, a perfectly timed criticism designed to throw you off balance and pull you into someone else's drama.This episode is about learning to tell the difference between information and noise and why the most powerful thing you can do in a difficult workplace is refuse to take the bait.Using The Devil Wears Prada as our lens, we break down three of the most recognisable workplace dynamics your audience will instantly see in their own offices: the ice-cold baiter who never raises their voice, the person who takes every hook and builds their whole identity around someone else's approval, and the one who finally learns to stop reacting and start discerning.Because here's what nobody tells you: you don't win by fighting back. You win by not playing.📅 Ready to talk about your next move? Book your free Career Clarity Call: https://calendly.com/peggymcknight-info/career-clarity-call
- 4 weeks ago28 min
When You Finally See What's Been Happening to You
Have you ever had a moment, in the shower, on the drive home, at 2am, where something finally clicks? Where you look back over the last year or two and suddenly see the whole picture clearly for the first time?This episode is for you if you've been working hard, giving everything you've got, and still feeling like nothing you do is ever quite good enough, whether that's coming from your manager, your peers, or both.We go deep into the fog that quietly settles over you in a difficult workplace, why it's so hard to see from the inside, and what it actually feels like when it finally lifts. Backed by research on social undermining, workplace gaslighting, and the manufactured inadequacy loop, this episode names what has been happening to you and gives you permission to trust yourself again.Because here's the truth: you are not imagining it. You are not too sensitive. And you are not the problem.📅 Ready to talk about what's next? Book your free Career Clarity Call: https://calendly.com/peggymcknight-info/career-clarity-call
- Apr 14, 202646 min
Bad Start? So What! How to Reset Before You Spiral
Ever had one of those mornings where everything goes wrong, wrong email, questioned in a meeting, project misses the mark and suddenly your whole day feels like a write-off? Or maybe it's bigger than one bad day. Maybe you've been in a slowspiral for months and you've stopped noticing it. This episode is for both.Using Jon Rahm's legendary 2023 Masters comeback, Rory McIlroy'snerve-shredding 2026 final hole, and what Serena Williams and Michael Jordan do when it goes wrong, we break down exactly why spirals happen, why they're so hard to stop and the one question that pulls you out. Practical, honest, and built for anyone who has ever let one bad moment carry too much weight.Book a Career Clarity Call: https://calendly.com/peggymcknight-info/career-clarity-call
- Apr 7, 202644 min
Be the Anti-Derailer - How to Become the Person the Culture Cannot Touch
We named the derailers in Episode 1. We examined the nine organisational conditions that built the stage for them in Episode 2. In the final episode of this series we talk about what you actually do about all of it.Not coping. Not managing. Becoming.Episode 3 is built around the five internal shifts that separate the people who come through difficult workplace dynamics stronger than they went in, seven concrete Anti-Derailer practices you can apply starting tomorrow, and five evidence-backed tools for staying calm and strategically clear when you are rattled, angry or running on empty.We also look honestly at the mirror, because the most important question in this episode is not what are they doing. It is what am I doing.The field guide is complete. The roadmap ends here. And the only person who ever had the power to define where you go next --- is you.Part 3 of 3 in the series: Beware the Person Who Defines Your Future Skills for You.
- Mar 31, 202639 min
The Organization Did It
Part 2 of 3 in the series: Beware the Person Who Defines Your Future Skills for You.In Episode 1 we built the Derailer Field Guide and gave you the language for what you have been living. Now it is time to ask the harder question.How does a person like that survive? How do they thrive? How does an entire organisation look the other way while the damage accumulates?In Episode 2 we stop blaming the individuals and start examining the conditions that built the stage for them. Because here is the uncomfortable truth that most leadership books will never tell you, in the majority of cases the organisation did not just tolerate the derailer. It created them.In this episode we cover the gap that PRINCE2 and PMP never filled, the concept of the Organisational Shadow, and the nine specific conditions - from performative inclusion to systemic blame displacement - that allow derailing behaviour to not just survive but flourish.McKinsey research shows 70% of large scale change programmes fail. This episode explains exactly why — and what that means for you.
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About Career Pivot Accelerator
Change your thoughts ~ change your life! Ever wished you had a career coach to help stretch you beyond your current capabilities to help you realize those dreams you once had? That's exactly what you'll get when you tune into my podcast CAREER PIVOT ACCELERATOR! My specialty is helping you develop key transferrable skills that will help you leverage your career in directions you never thought possible or reserved yourself to the lucky few. Tune in, get inspired, & re-energized about your own career. Each week I will be covering key topics that are important to help you learn and grow.🌱 🌺 Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/careerpivotaccelerator/support
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