You Coach You: How to Overcome Challenges and Take Control of Your Career

This new book from Helen and Sarah is engaging and full of concrete, simple, practical ideas for those looking to invest time and energy on themselves.

Being a lifelong learner I do read a lot of books. Each books brings in something valuable for you. I have found a lot of books bringing about changes in the way I think, very few books though help me implement things to make for a life changing experience. 20 years ago I had picked up the book 7 Habits of highly effective people, and by putting down all the habits in practice I was able to take my career off week. Today 20 years into my career I have already put down a bunch of things I’m already putting into action.Being a practising Coach myself I have read a whole lot of Coaching, but nothing comes close to Helen and Sarahs work in helping yourself.The book is beautifully structured including templates, techniques, anecdotes and of course advice from a whole bunch of celebrities and authors who have researched various intensely.A must read for professionals starting your career, mid career professionals or folks in the twilight of their careers to effectively make transitions. A great investment of time, effort and money, thanks Helen & Sarah

This book is great - helped me a lot to reflect

If, like me, you prefer to dive into a business book and get to the sections you need the most, You Coach You has a great structure for this.So far I've done a deep dive into the chapters on Time and Self-Belief and there are a wealth of different and, importantly, practical tools and ideas to try out to see what works for you. I'm trying out some of the 10 time tactics for my different task at work and using the coach yourself questions at the end of each chapter to help me focus and get clarity on exactly what areas I want to improve. This book is really helping move from thinking about taking action, to the 'doing'!I love the single page end of chapter summaries with ideas for further actions. The visuals and quotes throughout break up the text and help bring the ideas for action to life (I sometimes struggle with attention when reading and both of these help enormously).As a long-standing fan of Helen and Sarah's work with the Squiggly Careers podcast and book, I had high expectations for their 2nd book and it has exceeded them so far. I can see myself reaching for this book repeatedly to work through different work-releated goals and difficulties.

I'm a big fan of The Squiggly Career Podcast so I thought I'd give this a read. I absolutely loved it! Helen Tupper and Sarah Ellis have done an excellent job of curating inspiring quotes, practical exercises, well-researched theory and their own personal stories weaved in. The book is easy to read as it's cleverly structured with a summary at the end of each chapter to help you remember what you have learned with further support and podcast reference and free downloads. It covers so many career related areas to coach yourself on; my personal 'lightbulb moment' favourite exercise was the self-belief wall, however they are all excellently designed and easy to follow. It's a book I'd recommend everyone re-read and dip back into whenever you are facing a specific challenge for example when you're needing to re-address your time management, or further shape your purpose. As an Executive career coach myself I can see how this book can work really well for those without access to 1:1 career coaching, AND also for those who are working with coaches and may wish to explore the exercises in this book with their coach too.Thank you for putting the time and effort into this book, and for making coaching and careers more accessible for everyone.

This is a fantastic book for anyone at any point in their careers who want to shape and grow their professional journey. The book covers six main areas, resilience, time, self-belief, relationships, progression and purpose. The reader can choose the area they wish to dive in first. I have found each of them to be extremely helpful and relevant. The chapters include a balanced combination of theory, tools, practical exercises (one can take multiple times), inspirational quotes, personal experience and further reading/resources. Reading each chapter feels very much like attending a live training session. There is space for the reader to make notes and go through the activities. By the time I had 'taken' my journey into this fantastic resource, I had created my own version of the book and one I will keep going back to I am sure. This book is not for lending and it make a great gift idea!