Personal Note from Rachel

Happy New Year!

As we usher in 2025, I hope your holiday season was filled with joy, rest, and cherished moments with loved ones. The dawn of a new year is more than a date change—it is an invitation to realign with your purpose, set meaningful goals, and embrace transformative growth. It’s a time to envision the life and achievements you aspire to and take deliberate steps toward making them a reality.

Reflecting on the Past Year

Before stepping into the opportunities ahead, take a moment to honour the journey of 2024. Reflection is a powerful tool for growth, offering insights into your experiences and achievements while shaping your path forward.

Celebrate Your Successes What accomplishments brought you joy and pride in 2024? Whether you hit professional milestones, deepened relationships, or mastered new skills, each success—big or small—demonstrates your resilience and capability. These wins deserve recognition as they form the foundation of future success.

Learn from Challenges Challenges often offer the greatest lessons. Consider moments of doubt or adversity and the strength you mustered to overcome them. What did you learn about patience, creativity, or adaptability? These qualities will support you as you face new opportunities in 2025.

Tools such as the My Year in Review form or the Wheel of Life can guide your reflections by:

• Clarifying what brings you balance and fulfilment.
• Identifying areas needing adjustment.
• Refocusing your energy on aligned goals and relationships.

Take this time to acknowledge your progress, recalibrate your priorities, and prepare for a year of growth.

Vision Setting: Your Blueprint for 2025

The start of a new year is akin to a blank canvas. What will you create in 2025? Vision setting provides clarity and direction, transforming lofty aspirations into actionable plans.

Key Questions to Guide Your Vision

1. Purpose: What is most important to you? 
2. Personal: Who do you want to become so that you live your life in increasing alignment with your vision and values and have the energy to achieve your goals?
3. Professional: What do you want to achieve? Define specific, measurable goals for both your personal and professional life. What steps will get you there? Break down goals into smaller, manageable milestones with clear timeframes and required resources.
4. People: Who can help you?  Who can you help?  How will you stay accountable? Share your goals with a trusted colleague, mentor, or coach to ensure consistent progress.
5. Products/Services: How can you use your gifts and talents to create value that clients appreciate/value
6. Prosperity: time/money/energy What skills, approaches, supports do you need to develop to turn intention into reality? Identify gaps in knowledge or abilities and take steps to address them through learning or mentorship

Development for You and Your Team

In today’s ever-changing world, growth isn’t optional—it’s essential. Professional development equips you and your team to adapt, innovate, and lead effectively. Here’s how to prioritise growth in 2025:

• Identify skills gaps relevant to emerging trends or technologies in your industry.
• Seek opportunities for learning through reflecting on experience, courses, workshops, or tailored coaching programmes.
• Foster a culture of development by empowering your team to set goals and offering resources to support their growth.
• Leverage coaching for enhanced leadership, team collaboration, and personal clarity.

Our programmes, such as 4FrontPharmacyOnline, Pharmacist Coach Academy and 'Lead with Coaching' are designed to help you thrive by providing self-directed learning, one-to-one leadership coaching, and group development opportunities. Growth is not merely an investment in skills but in your future success.

Letting Go to Move Forward

Growth often requires letting go of what no longer serves you. Conduct a thoughtful assessment of your habits, processes, and relationships to determine:

• What is working well? Identify and amplify practices that drive success.
• What is holding you back? Release outdated routines or commitments that drain energy or misalign with your goals.

Approach change with self-awareness, honesty, and courage. Embrace the temporary discomfort of letting go as a necessary step for new opportunities and achievements to take root.

Seeking Support: A Key to Success

Growth flourishes in a supportive environment. Identify mentors, coaches, or peer groups who can guide and inspire you. Explore resources such as strategy sessions, tailored development plans, or online learning platforms to accelerate your progress.

Collaboration and external perspectives can:

• Illuminate blind spots.
• Provide encouragement and accountability.
• Foster innovation through diverse ideas.

For help with reflecting and aligning to begin this journey of self-discovery, let’s make 2025 our best year yet!

Listen Up: Watch the Deep Dive Here

Refer to the My Year in Review to dive deeper.

Call to Action

With my strongest recommendation, and especially if you 'don't have time' to reflect, I encourage you to schedule time for this Year-End Review and Wheel of Life exercise. Engaging with these tools is vital for your personal and professional growth. Let’s embrace this opportunity for self-reflection, celebrate our achievements, and look forward to a year filled with growth and accomplishment.  

Professional Development Opportunities 

As part of your personal, professional and business development for 2025, we are thrilled to share a range of Professional Development Opportunities for pharmacists, coaches, leaders, and teams, including:

• 4FrontPharmacyOnline: Self-directed learning for pharmacy teams - annual memberships available
• Pharmacist Coach Academy: One-to-one leadership development coaching with Rachel Dungan MPSI, MCC-ACTC - four six-month slots opening Jan 2025
• Just Get It Done CPD Mentoring: 90-min laser-focus session for pharmacists to prepare CPD ePortfolio Review submissions for 2024/2025 in Jan 2025 - book now
• On-Site Pharmacy Practice Audit (PAS): Aligned with PSI Pharmacy Assessment System Annual Review requirements - on-site days available for 2025.
• ICF Mentor Coaching: Competency-based mentoring for those working towards ICF-ACC, PCC, and MCC credentials 
• Cross-professional Supervision: For coaches, mentors, and team leaders looking to deepen their practice.
• Lead With Coaching 1-2-1: One-to-one leadership mindset and mental fitness coaching, powered by Positive Intelligence, to leverage your performance, relationships, and wellbeing - with Rachel Dungan MPSI, MCC-ACTC - four six-month slots opening Jan 2025
• Lead With Coaching Programmes: Cross-industry, group leadership development programs to develop you and your team to lead with a coaching style of leadership - enrolling now for Feb and May 2025

Action Step:  Complete the  Identify Your Saboteurs and VIA Strengths Finder Survey, then click the "90-Minute Strategy Session"  link to take advantage of a one-to-one strategy session with me and search my calendar to schedule the perfect time for you.

Wishing you a fulfilling and reflective end of the year!

Warm regards,

Rachel