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Designing Your New Work Life

October 1, 2024 by Jim Peacock Leave a Comment

Designing Your New Work Life: How to Thrive and Change and Find Happiness-and new Freedom- at Work

By Bill Burnett and Dave Evans

I totally “get” these guys and love the way articulate how to make your next move in your career. Sometimes it is leaving but they recognize that sometimes it is a matter of redesigning your current job too.

Their advice is solid in that you have to prototype your next move and learn as much as you can about yourself, what you are looking for, and what is out there. You have to take “action” and then be “open to discovering things by accident” which is my philosophy of embracing “intentional serendipity.“

I also love their advice on reframing your situation. I feel like career coaches do this all the time with our student and clients. We help them take another perspective and give them hope.

This book is filled with perspective, hope, and solid advice in how to make your next move.

Filed Under: Book Reviews

Here is Where: Discovering America’s Great Forgotten History

September 29, 2024 by Jim Peacock Leave a Comment

By Andrew Carroll

This was my bedside book for the past couple of months because the chapters are brief and independent of each other. So in the evening I would read a chapter on some lost or forgotten piece of American history and sleep peacefully…most of the time.

The author takes us to places that most people drive by and don’t know about the significant historical events. He starts with President Lincoln’s son Robert Todd being saved by a man when a train nearly crushed him. Turns out the man that saved him was the brother to John Wilkes Booth. Holy crap! What are the odds of that??

Well that was just the beginning of this book. Stories included the man who created a number of vaccines that ultimately have saved millions of lives (you’ve never heard of him, neither did it), and several organizations that placed orphans and indigent children in rural towns scattered throughout the mid-west. Often immigrants children who didn’t really want to go.

There are stories about forgotten graves and much more. I enjoyed this book and a lesson in all the small (and sometimes not so small) historical facts get lost unless someone tells us the story.

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Interview: Power of Adaptability and Our Values

September 23, 2024 by Jim Peacock Leave a Comment

This is another informative interview with Dr. Spencer “Skip” Niles and is a follow up to his keynote speech at the National Career Development Association (NCDA) conference in San Diego this past June 2024. I personally thought it was the best keynote speech I’ve seen in years.

Note: You can still watch his speech by registering for the NCDA Virtual Conference by October 1st, 2024 here.

We explore three pieces of his keynote.

  1. The importance of being adaptable in our careers
  2. The chaos of starting something new
  3. The values activity he uses where you outline your own book of your life
Interview with Dr. Spencer “Skip” Niles

BIO: Spencer G. Niles Dr. Spencer Niles serves as Professor in the Counselor Education Program at William & Mary. Previously, he served as Dean (2013-2020) and Professor at the School of Education at William & Mary.

Spencer Niles is a Past-President of Chi Sigma Iota International and was twice the President of the National Career Development Association (NCDA). He is the recipient of the NCDA Eminent Career Award. Niles is a Fellow of the National Career Development Association and the American Counseling Association.

Niles is a Fellow of ACA and NCDA. He served as two-term Editor for The Career Development Quarterly, Editor for the Journal of Counseling & Development, and continues to serve on numerous journal editorial boards. He has authored or co-authored approximately 140 publications and delivered over 150 presentations at national and international conferences. His book Career Development Interventions (6th edition) is the best-selling career text in the world. His forthcoming co-authored books are titled Career Flow and Development: Hope-Action Theory and Career Recovery: Creating Careers with Hope in Difficult Times.

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Jim Peacock is the Principal at Peak-Careers Consulting and writes a weekly email for career practitioners. Peak-Careers offers discussion-based online seminars for career practitioners focused on meeting continuing education needs for CCSP, GCDF and BCC certified professionals as well as workshops for career practitioners and individual career coaching.

He is the author of A Field Guide for Career Practitioners: Helping Your Clients Create Their Next Move and the recipient of the 2020 Kenneth C. Hoyt Award from National Career Development Association.

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Filed Under: Interviews Tagged With: Adaptability, transitions, values

Online Seminar Survey Results

September 6, 2024 by Jim Peacock Leave a Comment

Thank you to everyone who responded to the Peak-Careers Online Seminar survey! The results were insightful and will help me with planning for future seminars. Here are some highlights from the survey responses:

More than half of respondents have taken an OLS (58.8%) and of those:

  • 83.3% were prompted to take a seminar based on the topic
  • 63.3% were prompted by continuing education requirements
  • Format (46.7%) and affordability (40%) were next most popular reasons 

Of those who have not taken an OLS, the following reasons were most often given:

  • 47.6% cited timing and availability conflicts 
  • 33.3% cited cost as being prohibitive

Preferred method of professional development was split fairly evenly between Online synchronous and Online asynchronous. The largest segment indicated a preference for hybrid training (37.3%). Here is a visualization of the results:

Forms response chart. Question title: What is your preferred method for professional development? . Number of responses: 51 responses.

When choosing professional development, the respondents overwhelmingly rated the seminar topic as “most important” to them. The factors of price, instructor, and continuing education credits were rated as “important” fairly evenly with price getting the highest number of “important” votes.      

Forms response chart. Question title: What factors do you consider when selecting professional development?. Number of responses: .

It looks like February and March are winners for most preferred time of year with October coming in third. Good news! We have several seminars slated for October, February, and March.

Forms response chart. Question title: We typically offer a group of seminars 6 times per year with each session lasting 5 weeks. Please let us know which time frames work best for you. (Select all that apply) . Number of responses: 51 responses.

Filed Under: Career

On Great Fields: The Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain

September 6, 2024 by Jim Peacock Leave a Comment

By Ronald C. White

Being from Maine and my interest in history, I knew about Joshua Chamberlain who fought at Gettysburg with the 20th Maine regiment and defended Little Round Top so famously. He was depicted in Ken Burns documentary of the Civil War and also in Shaara’s Killer Angels book.

This author dug deeper into the life of Joshua Chamberlain from his upbringing in a religious family which gave insight to his values, to his time at Bowdoin College as a student, later as a professor, and after the war as the President of Bowdoin.

He also served as the governor of Maine for 4 years when the terms were 1 year. Chamberlain lived a full life and had many decisions to make along his career path, which nearly led him to be a minister having completed a few years of the Bangor Theological School. His passion was learning new things but he also was gifted at reading people which served him well in war as well as the rest of his life.

Filed Under: Book Reviews

INTERVIEW: Career Trends in the Next 3-5 Years

June 10, 2024 by Jim Peacock Leave a Comment

My guests today

Ann Nakaska –Career Consultant / Career Educator / Futurist

Dr. David Blustein –Professor and the Golden Eagle Faculty Fellow in the Department of Counseling, Developmental, and Educational Psychology at Boston College

Dorothy Dalton – International Talent Management Strategist and Founder of 3Plus International.

QUESTION

What are the career trends in the next 3-5 years that career service providers need to be aware of?


We discuss how the future affects marginalized people and social justice issues, the 4th technology era impact, why post-secondary education needs to move away from the “four-year” model, and much more.

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Full Bios

Ann Nakaska –BA, M. Ed., CDF is a career consultant who specializes in career decision making and career planning. She researches, writes, and presents on work trends and career opportunities of the future. She loves reading about business, innovation, and the fourth industrial revolution. She is optimistic about this age of uncertainty and loves exploring the work opportunities open to all people created by industry innovation. https://www.constructivecareer.com/
LinkedIn: Ann Nakaska BA, MEd | LinkedIn

Dr. David Blustein –is a Professor and the Golden Eagle Faculty Fellow in the Department of Counseling, Developmental, and Educational Psychology at Boston College.  Dr. Blustein is the author of The Psychology of Working and The Importance of Work in an Age of Uncertainty as well as numerous articles and book chapters. He has been instrumental in developing psychology of working theory, which represents a social justice-informed perspective on the role of work in people’s lives. Dr. Blustein is also in practice as a career counselor, career coach, and counseling psychologist.

Faculty website:  https://www.bc.edu/bc-web/schools/lynch-school/faculty-research/faculty-directory/david-blustein.html

Counseling Practice website: https://www.careercounselingconnection.com/massachusetts/lexington/career-counseling/david-blustein

Dorothy Dalton – is an International Talent Management Strategist and Founder of 3Plus International,  working with global organizations to meet their diversity and inclusion goals.  She is a Certified Trainer and Coach focusing on supporting individuals to reach their potential. She has recently certified as  a Trauma Informed Coach in response to a spike in workplace mental health issues. www.dorothydalton.com


JIM PEACOCK is the Principal at Peak-Careers Consulting and writes a weekly career news email for career practitioners. Peak-Careers offers discussion-based online seminars for career practitioners focused on meeting continuing education needs for CCSP, GCDF and BCC certified professionals as well as workshops for career practitioners and individual career coaching. He is the author of A Field Guide for Career Practitioners: Helping Your Clients Create Their Next Move Sign up to receive my TOP 10 TIPS WHEN WORKING WITH AN UNDECIDED PERSON. You can also receive the career practitioners weekly career email which includes a variety of career topics, industry news, interesting events, and more.

Filed Under: Interviews Tagged With: career trends, professional development

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