Archive for Executive Coaching
Relationships Are the Key to Career Strength
What’s the most important thing to learn if you want to advance your career? How to foster, develop, and manage relationships effectively. In today’s emerging right-brain economy, the hard skills taught in schools provide only the baseline of what is required in most professions. Professionals who have the edge — those singled out for high-potential [...]
Always Be Networking: Advice from Passport2Success
Another run of the speed consulting program for job seekers was sponsored and coordinated by WFMY-TV on May 5, 2010. Many career coaches in the Piedmont Triad area of North Carolina volunteered their time. Here’s a little snippet of video that I contributed between one on one sessions with people looking for advice on their [...]
Listening – the Key to Reaching Just About Anyone
In my various roles – strategy consultant, executive coach, mother of teen-aged boys, Board volunteer – I’ve run into people I don’t understand and with whom I can’t find common ground. It doesn’t happen often, but when it does, you’re stumped. In talking with colleagues about this phenomenon, we could all describe what happens: there [...]
12 Reasons Your Small Business Needs Twitter
Twitter is a powerful tool for small businesses, consultants, nonprofits, and individuals. This post by guest author Jessica Swanson is a helpful checklist if you are looking for some reasons to try out Twitter. My only caveat is that social media is labor intensive and can therefore cost you time even if it doesn’t cost [...]
How to Build a Business That Fits Your Life
Today’s guest author is Sherri Garrity from TheCorporateFugitive.com. Sherri writes frequent posts on her blog about what it takes to transition from a corporate employee to a self-employed entrepreneur. When individuals come to me for career transition counseling, one of the options that is often on the table is whether or not freelancing or self-employment [...]
How Proving Your Value Costs You Money and Loses Clients
Today’s guest author is Sherri Garrity from TheCorporateFugitive.com. Sherri writes frequent posts on her blog about what it takes to transition from a corporate employee to a self-employed entrepreneur. Her useful tips about personal positioning related to how to price your services is outline below. Guest Author: Sherri Garrity on Value Pricing If I were [...]
WFMY-TV Personal Positioning & Creative Resumes
Yesterday, Dana Arquilla, WFMY-TV web reporter and camerman Chris Keimig came by to ask me about a local artist, Thomas Roam, who is using Google Maps to position himself online and to further enhance his attractiveness as a potential employee. The clip of the interview (at the bottom of the page) captures only a portion [...]
Are You Using Your Assets to Get Americans Back to Work?
Rosabeth Moss Kanter’s contributions to the business of work discourse are usually very good, but the March 1, 2010 post on the Harvard Business Review site (www.hbr.org) was exceptionally relevant and inspiring. Her title was “Getting Americans Back to Work.” Small and Do-able Ideas Great, you’re thinking, lots of people are writing about that topic [...]
Does Your Career Reinvention Include Solo Consulting?
If your career reinvention includes solo consulting, you may find this helpful from the February 8, 2010 Wall St. Journal: How to Succeed in the Age of Going Solo A few tips from the article: Think long term – given economic forecasts and the shifting employment contract, today’s freelancers and consultants may be on their [...]
Worst Practices in Management and Leadership
Author and Consultant David Noer Takes a Look at Worst Practices David Noer, author of Healing the Wounds and an organizational change expert I worked with at the Center for Creative Leadership, is working on a new concept — WORST practices instead of BEST practices. I love this idea. Below is his request for information. [...]
