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2016 May Be Your Year For A New Career

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.” And of course: “You aren’t supposed to have fun. What if 2016 is your year for a new career? New Career Skills. Fearless exploring is the most important new-career skill you can have. When you are looking at starting a new career, you’ll need to know: What transferable skills you have.

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What I Wish I Knew When I Started My Career (Part Two)

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In yesterday’s post , I shared eight things I know now, that I wish I had known when I had started my career. Being agile and ready to bend and adapt to changing circumstances is an absolutely vital skill set to develop if you want to have a career that’s as frustration free as possible. ” None of us wants that, of course.

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Space Leadership Comes Before Selfies

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I know there are plenty of experts out there ( Cal Newport, for example ) who argue that being “passionate” about your career choice isn’t necessary to perform well, but I tend to disagree. Over the course of his career, he made some decisions about academics and career moves that placed him, ultimately, in exactly the right position.

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Health and Well-Being in the Workplace

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Of course, providing healthy foods will cost you more money. In-House Career Coaching. Parents find it hard to balance careers and family lives, and this can be a major source of stress. Career coaching will help your employees integrate work into their family lives seamlessly.

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Build Your Leadership Capacity on a Strong Personal Foundation

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The same is true for your leadership career. The late Baseball Hall-of-Famer Yogi Berra was as famous for his misuse of the English language as for his coaching career. There are countless detours and ways to veer off course. As I went on to tell Jayden, you can’t build a skyscraper on a foundation meant for a garage.

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Called to the Front

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Posted in Career Development Leadership Coaching A few years ago I was asked to speak on “Leadership” to a women’s professional networking group within the Utility industry. To prepare for the topic, which of course is really quite broad, I randomly selected about a dozen women in the organization to talk with about leadership.

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September 2021 Leadership Development Carnival

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Dana Theus of InPower Coaching writes FAQ: Career Coach Advice. Dana explains: “When I am giving career coach advice, I often find some themes in the conversation around how to handle uncertainty and non-standard career challenges. Karin and David share: “ Of course, leadership is not about being liked.