When clients share their frustrations about corporate life, I often see benefits they don’t. One of these is that milestones and progress are easier to measure, which is why when my clients are working on longer term projects like job search, promotion, or shifting their team’s dynamics, progress can be hard to measure. Here are …
There are two requests I get all the time: 1) Clarity on the big picture, and 2) A road map to get there. There is one more element that is key. It’s to have the confidence to activate the first two. My clients (you!) are mostly high-achievers. In reality, you don’t want someone to tell you …
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If you are like most people, when you think about networking, your first thought is about that big fish mover and shaker who can offer you a great opportunity on the spot. Which is also why, like most people, you probably stop before you even start. Getting to the “right” people is not about …
Read Lean In or attend a panel discussion of successful executives and you often hear, “Then I was offered the opportunity to …” or “Then I was asked to join…” What they don’t tell you is that they were offered an opportunity after they asked for it. In a Forbes interview I read, Sheryl Sandberg, Marisa Mayer, and …
Read Lean In or attend a panel discussion of successful executives and you often hear things like, “Then I was offered the opportunity to …” or “Then I was asked to join…”. It can leave the best of us wondering, “What am I doing wrong that I am not in such demand?” What they don’t tell you …
Your Story – Why it’s Key to Getting a Job You Love A recent client took a shot at giving me her elevator pitch, and it sounded like this, “Seven years at X bank, an internship at Y bank, all in selling financial products with good results.” Even with how much I like her …
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It’s amazing how consistently I see job-seekers make these mistakes. It’s not that they aren’t talented or smart — it’s that (please listen up!) job search and career management are a separate job from the job you do. It’s frustrating but true. Doing a job without learning the tools of career management means you are …
The response to the Career GPS offer has been fantastic! It looks like summer is, in fact, a good time to think about career. To share more about my approach, I am offering an exercise I call “Jump Starting Your Value Proposition.” When we know and trust what we are good at, others see our …
Summer is a fantastic time to do the groundwork for your next career move! It’s also the time we want to relax and feel free. I get it. Which is why this summer I am offering the laser focus version of my Career GPS program, so you can stop putting it off, and start following …
Last Tuesday I attended the International Coach Federation’s Prism Award event where talent development and coaching experts had a robust discussion on trends. In the room were top coaches. On the panel were heads of Talent Development from PVH Corp, Google, Comcast, GSK, ESPN, Coca-Cola and Prudential, all of whom have in-house “universities” that include robust coaching …
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