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INTERVIEW: What is Mindfulness and Why Should Career Practitioners Care?

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My guests today are….well me, Jim Peacock 🙂 and Sabrina Woods, Holistic Career / Life Coach and we will explore mindfulness and career practitioners embracing it in their practice.

My good friend Bob McIntosh interviews me and Sabrina on Using Mindfulness to Impact our Wellbeing & That of Our Clients.

Bob McIntosh, SCPRW is a career trainer and coach and LinkedIn authority and asked if he could interview us as he wanted to learn more about mindfulness.

WHAT WE WILL EXPLORE

  • What is mindfulness and why is it so important to practice it?
  • How do you practice mindfulness and share your experience with your clients?
  • What benefits do you derive from mindfulness, and how do you pass the benefits on to your clients?


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FULL BIO’s

SABRINA WOODS is a Holistic Career / Life Coach & Linkedin Trainer with 15+ years’ in the career services field at universities including Harvard, Northeastern and the University of London. Her joy comes from tapping holistic and mindfulness-based practices while helping people with career transitions. Sabrina also facilitates workshops and train-the-trainer sessions ranging from the Myers Briggs to Mindfulness to Networking. Her workshops combine her insights, enthusiasm and infectious energy. Sessions have been taught in the US, UK and Middle East. For more info: www.sabrina-woods.com.

BOB McINTOSH, CPRW is a career trainer and coach who leads more than 15 job-search workshops at an urban career center, as well counsels job seekers on every aspect of the job search. His colleagues rely on Bob to critique their clients’ LinkedIn profiles and conduct mock interviews. In addition, Bob has gained a reputation as a LinkedIn authority in the community, where he leads workshops for non-profit and for-profit organizations. Job seekers from across the state attend Bob’s LinkedIn workshops. His greatest pleasure is helping people find rewarding careers in a competitive job market. For enjoyment, he blogs at Things Career Related and contributes to Recruiter.com

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 the National Career Development Association.

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INTERVIEW: My Three Words to Guide Me in 2019

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Another Peak-Careers Interview

Three Words to Guide Me in 2019:
Why, How, and What for..

I have been choosing three words to guide me now since 2016 and my guest has been doing it for a few more years. Learn Why, How, we choose words and then listen to the words we both choose and the meaning they bring to us.

My guest today is Scott Woodard. Scott is an executive and career coach. (see full bio below)

What we will explore today:

  • Why do you choose 3 words to guide you?
  • How do you do it?
  • What are you 3 words and why?

Look for my blogs on this same topic at 3-Words Blog

Scott Woodard

Scott is an executive and career coach. He frames issues so people can take action and achieve their goals. He works with individuals and teams to see new patterns and create alternative ways to move forward. Scott has coached people from all walks of life: corporate executives and elected officials challenged to transform their organizations; Boomers trying to determine the “second acts” of their life, and new graduates starting out in their first career.

You can reach him at [email protected]
Learn more about him at www.scottwoodardcoaching.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

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INTERVIEW: Reading Books for Professional Development

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Watch or listen to this interview with a number of different career service providers who are also book-lovers. Below the interview, you will find the books they recommended in the interview.
 
(1) Why do you think reading books is important for your own professional development?
(2) What is your favorite book in 2018 that helped you professionally?

I hope you are inspired to read one of these books, I know I am. This interview is a follow up to my blog Are You Faster Than 300?

 

Brian Hutchison, Department Chair and Associate Professor at New Jersey City University and the Global Career Guy – follow me at Global Career Guy Channel on youtube.

Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World by Anand Giridharadas

The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity by  Nadine Burke Harris M.D. 

For fun, Brian reads a lot of books by Deon Meyer

Carol Pelletier, School to Career Coordinator at Camden Hills Regional High School

The End of College, Creating the Future of Learning in the University of Everywhere, by Kevin Carey
Teach, Breathe, Learn by Meena Srinivisasan

The Quiet American, Graham Greene

Intention, Critical  Creativity in the Classroom, by Amy Burvall and Dan Ryder
 
Belinda J. Wilkerson, Founder of Steps To The Future, LLC  www.steps2thefuture.com
Her STEM Career: Adventures of 51 Remarkable Women by Diane Propsner
 
Girl, Wash Your Face by Rachel Hollis
 
Becoming by Michelle Obama
 
Edward Lawrence, Training Coordinator for MassHire Metro Southwest, which comprises MassHire Framingham and MassHire Norwood, two Massachusetts-based American Job Centers. By night, I offer coaching and career services through my business Getstarted LLC  (www.getstart-ed.com).
 
Grant by Ron Chernow. A study Presidential leadership styles.
 
The Startup of You by Reid Hoffman
Recommended by my boss; has enabled us to transform the message for job-seekers.
 
The Work of Leaders by Straw, Scullard, Kukkonen, and David
Excellent summation of how Vision and Alignment and Execution are used by leaders.
 
I met the author Elizabeth White. She told me, “Ed, the cavalry isn’t coming through that door!”
Her experience echoes the philosophy of Hoffman. We are responsible for our careers.

Barry L. Davis, MS, CTC, CMCS, Career Coach at Gift of Self Career Services and Adjunct Professor for Concordia and Huntington Universities

Steal Like an Artist – 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative by Austin Kleon

Barbara Janssens, 
Living Nonviolent Communication: Practical Tools to Connect and Communicate Skillfully in Every Situation.  By Marshall Rosenberg
 
Marie Eddy, CCSP, GCDF, Eddy Career Services eddycareerservices.com
Career Kred. 4 Simples Steps to Build Your Digital Brand & Boost Credibility in Your Career. By Ryan Rhoten
 
The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results. By Gary Keller and Jay Papasan
 
Alease Copelin, CT/Academic Counselor, Center High School Career Center
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INTERVIEW: Taking Retreats to Slow Down

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  • How many things are on your “to do” list today?
  • How many times/day do you check your email and social media accounts?
  • Get control over your day again by choosing 3 things to do each day that “must get done” and then look at your list of 25 things.
  • Check your email 3 times/day…bunch them up so you are not chasing emails all the time.

And…consider taking a day, or a half day, retreat to slow down and rediscover your creativity.

 
Listen to this Peak-Careers Interview with three of us who have been doing retreats for a while now and learn:
  • What our typical “retreat” looks like
  • What motivated us to start doing them
  • What the benefits of doing them can be
  • and some advice & tips for getting started
tech free retreat

Interested in this topic? See my blogs on mindfulness

 

Jim Peacock is the Principal at Peak-Careers Consulting and writes a monthly newsletter 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.

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INTERVIEW: Technology Tips for Career Service Providers

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Technology tips for career practitioners. It is important that we stay as much “up to date” in technology as possible.

Learn how to stay current and the top technology tips for career service providers from our guests today, the Technology Twins.

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Our Guests today

Melissa Venable, PhD works at HigherEducation.com where she creates web content on a wide range of topics related to college and career decision-making. In this role she also conducts an annual research project reporting online education trends, and moderates a weekly Twitter chat covering issues in technology and higher education. Melissa is a certified career coach and currently teaches online courses as an adjunct instructor for Saint Leo University and the University of South Florida. Melissa is on the Governing Board for National Career Development Association, currently holding the secretary position.

Debra Osborn Associate Professor and Career Counseling Program Coordinator at Florida State University.  She has been a counselor educator for over 20 years and enjoys teaching career development theories and techniques. Deb also enjoys finding ways to use technologies in creative ways to make learning (and teaching fun) and has consulted on how to do this using wikis, podcasts, chats, blogs, among other tools. Debra is a Past-President for National Career Development Association.

Check out their Technology Twins blog at https://technologytwins.com/

Watch this 21-minute interview now

technology twins

Jim Peacock is the Principal at Peak-Careers Consulting and writes a monthly newsletter 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.

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INTERVIEW: Learn about the power of LinkedIn from two experts

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LinkedIn: The power and reach of the largest career database in the world.

Guests today are two LinkedIn experts.

Bob McIntosh CPRW is a career trainer and coach who leads more than 15 job-search workshops at an urban career center

LinkedIn expert Bob McIntosh

Susan Joyce is in her 20th year as owner, publisher, and editor of Job-Hunt.org

LinkedIn expert Susan Joyce

– Learn their top 2 tips on how to be discovered by recruiters
and
– Their top tips on how to “engage” with others on LinkedIn

Look for my blogs on this same topic at Peak-Careers.com

BIOS
Susan P. Joyce is in her 20th year as owner, publisher, and editor of Job-Hunt.org (don’t forget that darn hyphen), one of Forbes 100 Top Sites for Your Career, among many honors. A former military intelligence officer and MIT Sloan Visiting Scholar, Susan is focused on helping job seekers understand how the current hiring process works so they can have the shortest job search possible. A “graduate” of two corporate layoffs, Susan has seen first-hand the tragedy that can result from job loss.

Bob McIntosh, CPRW is a career trainer and coach who leads more than 15 job-search workshops at an urban career center, as well counsels job seekers on every aspect of the job search. His colleagues rely on Bob to critique their clients’ LinkedIn profiles and conduct mock interviews. In addition, Bob has gained a reputation as a LinkedIn authority in the community, where he leads workshops for non-profit and for-profit organizations. Job seekers from across the state attend Bob’s LinkedIn workshops. His greatest pleasure is helping people find rewarding careers in a competitive job market. For enjoyment, he blogs at Things Career Related  and contributes to Recruiter.com

Jim Peacock is the Principal at Peak-Careers Consulting and writes a monthly newsletter 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 here to receive my  TOP 10 TIPS WHEN WORKING WITH AN UNDECIDED PERSON.  You can also receive the career practitioners newsletter which includes a variety of career topics, industry news, interesting events, and more. 

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