How to Craft a Magnetic WHY
When I career coach, one of the first things I do is aim to uncover the reasons Why people do what they do. Recently, I led a series of…
How to Craft a Magnetic WHY
3 Tips for Coping with Job Loss or Change
For job seekers or anyone in any form of career transition, I thought it would be helpful to look the ways in which loss is hard wired into our…
FIFA World Cup 2014 and Your Employer Brand
The 2014 FIFA World Cup has been a wonderful celebration of football. The Competition is the world’s most watched event. We are now approaching finals where the last 2 teams…
The Newest Threats to Employer Reputation and Branding
User Generated Content (UGC) is not a new phenomenon. Many of us are familiar with sites that rely on UGC. Here are some examples. If you are looking for…
4 Foundations for Creating Change
“Always go with your passions. Never ask yourself if it’s realistic or not” – Deepak Chopra If you coach people, then you have found that change does not come…
FIFA, Your Reputation, and Employer Brand
The 2014 FIFA World Cup starts this week in Brazil. It is the world’s most watched event. 32 teams will face off initially in Groups. The best 2 in…
5 Coaching Tips to Help the Newly Redundant Relaunch Their Careers
When I am engaged by companies or individuals for outplacement or career coaching, I have a checklist of issues I like to handle in my first one to two sessions.…
Large Classes Don’t Work for Adults Either
When it comes to the education of our kids, there is a common belief that large classroom sizes do not work. The rule of thumb is that the smaller…
What they hear is …
Noise. A Facilities Manager was told that due to business restructure, she was no longer employed. The news came as a complete surprise to her. HR had all the…
‘Shoulding’ All Over Yourself
Nigel Marsh author of Fat Forty and Fired said: Often people work long hard hours at jobs they hate to earn money to buy things they don’t need, to impress…