There are many career pathways to success. Our job as career coaches and practitioners is to help our students and clients discover a career by exploring career pathways that match their strengths and interests. Then to explore all the career pathways on how to get there, whether it is an apprenticeship, bachelors degree, trade school, or certificate. All too often, I hear people say they will go to college and figure it out there. That is a very expensive and time-consuming way to do career … [Read more...]
Why Is A Career Transition So Difficult?
Whether you planned for the career transition or it was unplanned...it is still often difficult. While an unplanned career transition may be more challenging, any change involves adjustment. Most of us live as if our lives will stay the same every day. I was listening to the podcast 'Hidden Brain' where people were asked to look ahead 10 years. How much change do they expect to happen? Then people were asked to look back 10 years at how much change had actually happened. There was a huge … [Read more...]
How to help your clients / students create luck. (Yes you can create luck!)
So… Can you create luck? In Gregg Levoy’s book Callings, he devotes a chapter to synchronicity, another way to create luck in your search for your new career path. Synchronicity is a coincidence...a meaningful coincidence that can inform us, primarily through intuition. Chemist Louis Pasteur said, “Chance favors the prepared mind.” Yes, you can create luck and Dr Richard Wiseman proves it in his book, The Luck Factor. (Read my book review here). Two things you need are to be open to … [Read more...]
3 Words To Guide Me
3 Words To Guide Me in 2018 BROADER AND LAYERED Once again I have chosen 3 words to guide me as I begin a new year. I also have goals written for my business and some personal goals. Yet, I have found a lot of power in choosing 3 words to guide me each year. They are posted on my computer, my refrigerator, my bathroom mirror, and placed on the bottom of all my PowerPoint presentations that I do. Goals are great and tend to be very specific. My 3 words are broader and have layered meanings to … [Read more...]
Are you faster than 300? You could save hours of time each week if you were.
According to a speed-reading test sponsored by Staples as part of an e-book promotion the average adult reads at 300 words per minute. (Source Forbes) Following up on last month's “bite-sized professional development” blog focusing on how TED Talks are inexpensive and “bite-sized,” typically about 15 minutes, this month I want to talk about reading. Primarily books, but also professional journals, and magazines / articles, in our profession and outside of our profession. Staying up to date … [Read more...]
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