Move Your Job From Doing Tasks to Developing Strategy
Does this sound like your job description? Meet with my boss once or twice per week, write down all the things she would like me to do, then try to get them done before our next meeting. I think a lot of us feel this way on some level. Recently, I worked with a client […]
5 Steps You Must Take Today for a Better Future Career Path
We all want to create a better future career, right? In my experience with clients, I’ve yet to meet someone who would like their career to go backwards – make less money, less growth opportunity, etc. If you agree then are you taking the right steps to move your career forward? Many of my clients […]
How to Make Your Work More Fulfilling
I am currently taking Tara Mohr’s Playing Big Facilitator training. I am learning so much and gaining great information and tools to use with clients. I cannot wait to begin using this information on a larger scale! In our very first session, Tara posed the following question to us: what is your work a laboratory […]
How to Create Your Career Goals
The why, what, how approach. Ever wonder why those New Years Resolutions never seem to make it past January? Don’t let that happen to your career goals this year. It’s never too late to start changing direction to what you want. Here’s a setup that has worked for me. The Why Before diving into your […]
How to Find the Fastest Growing Careers
If you clicked the title of this post, let me ask you… why? These are my guesses. 1) To assure yourself that your profession is on the list and growing. Let’s just say… for job security. 2) To get ideas of professions that are actually growing because you know for sure, that your current trajectory […]
Could Your Strengths Actually be Liabilities?
I do a lot of work with my clients as a career development specialist to recognize their strengths as they relate to their career. We may use strengths in identifying career paths, or in work with how to best brand yourself, or how to discuss strengths within the context of an interview. More recently, I […]
A Fulfilling Career Requires Maintenance
If you are fortunate enough to have a fulfilling career, you can probably distinctly recall the challenges you faced getting to where you are. You’re probably not interested in going through those again! Here’s the key to avoiding future career challenges: maintenance. We don’t often think about the maintenance of our career but, just like […]
A Rare Story: A Great Employee Meets a Great Employer
The other day I was at the playground watching my two girls run around and play. I struck up a conversation with another parent there and we started talking about her career… go figure! She told me a wonderful story… Well, I quit my job 6 months ago! I’m in business development and I oversee […]
How Employees Can Negotiate for a Higher Salary
Thanks to Noel Griffith for his guest blog. A brief bio is below. – Amy One of the most effective ways to get an increase in your salary is to negotiate an increase with the person responsible for signing off on it. This may be when you are first offered a position, or in your […]
If I Were Lloyd Dobler’s Career Coach
Oh how I wish I could be Lloyd Dobler’s career coach. Before you begin to worry about me, I fully recognize that he is a fictional character. Lloyd is the star character in the movie Say Anything starring John Cusack. This film was a huge part of my adolescence and has stayed with me since. […]