First Sign You Need Career Development: Dying Moose Noises?
I attended a workshop on career development recently and the topic of employee engagement came up. One participant mentioned that her co-workers can tell when she is stressed out, overwhelmed or otherwise disengaged by a noise she makes when she sighs. She described the sigh as ‘the sound of a moose dying.’ This brought a […]
Your Career Development Plan Using the Four Stages of Competence
Look back at your career and see if you can identify the moments when your career took a big leap forward. We help our clients achieve these moments by creating a career development plan. A good career development plan requires a grasp on what stage of career awareness you are in. Let’s use a model […]
Mindset Changes Today for a Better Career Tomorrow
So many people struggle with unhappiness in their career. I would venture to say that EVERYONE has been unhappy in their career, at some point in time. Our blogs regularly touch upon the subject of finding a job that fulfills you or turning your current job into something that makes you happy. This article takes […]
Engage the Being & Doing to Make a Career Change
As humans, we constantly strive to balance our two states – the being and doing. The Being is who you are and includes self-reflection and developing awareness of yourself, your thought patterns, behaviors, etc. The Doing is what you do and includes the actions you take and the plans you put in place, etc. Personal […]
Don’t be late for your interview
Just a funny interviewing story from a client. We all have to laugh at ourselves sometimes. Thought you’d like it. Have a great day! – Coach Wolfgang I had plenty of time to get to my interview… or so I thought. The office was downtown – that shouldn’t have been a problem! The traffic was […]
How to find the right job. Follow your passion.
Following your passion is a hard road. More than half the battle is finding out what the heck your passion really is! Sounds easy enough, and I’ve seen it so many times before, people feel they ought to ‘know‘ what their passion is. But behind closed doors – trust me – the majority have no […]
8 Tips for Testing Business Ideas With Surveys and Interviews
Recently, we posted a blog about the narrow focus of a startup on four core business objectives. Whether you agree with that approach for a startup or not, there was a part that will always be true: startups need to confirm their assumptions about their new products and services. They do this by conducting a […]
A Job (Does not Equal) a Career
Job and career… I hear many people use these two terms interchangeably. I believe sometimes they can overlap, but they remain quite distinct. The term ‘job’ was originated in middle England and wasn’t used in everyday language until the 1900s. This makes sense given the industrial revolution where it created ‘jobs’ outside the home. These […]
7 Things Millennials Should Know About Interviewing for a Job
Thanks to Michael Klazema for his guest blog on millenials. A brief bio is below. – Amy Entering the job market straight out of college has rarely been easy, but millennials have a tougher time at it than any prior generation. Not only is the economy still recovering from a historical recession, but millennials are […]
Why Professional Mentors are Such a Big Deal
We all need supporters. We all need the wisdom of those who have gone before us. We all need professional mentors. I’m not referring to a hierarchical structure where there is payback to the newbie on the team. I’m not talking about mentors who like to dish out what was given to them or simply […]