The Best Step to Overcome Career Change Fears
Tweet I spent the most pleasant evening tonight with a wonderful group of women who gathered for the Flourish book club meeting to discuss my book, Inner Architect. Flourish is the vision of Anne Marie Engel, whose mission is to support women in navigating the challenges of balancing career and life. Pursuing your passions in your work was a thread that weaved throughout our discussions. These accomplished, well-educated women shared their...
Read MoreSuccessful Listening Strategies Powerup Productivity
Tweet Listening is an often ignored skill with equally ignored strategies of engagement. The first step to understanding the best listening strategies to employ during a conversation is understanding the goals behind having the conversation. In “Listening Is A Skill That Requires A Strategy” we provided the first step to finding your strategy by identifying the four types of conversations: Information exchanges Building working...
Read MoreListening Is A Skill That Requires A Strategy
Tweet Listening is defined by Princeton.edu as the “act of hearing attentively.” BizJobs.com supports a business glossary definition that states that Listening is “a key selling skill, in that without good listening skills the process of questioning is rendered totally pointless.” From these definitions come the need to recognize one factor that is so often ignored it leads to a breakdown in the process of...
Read MoreFrom Procrastination to Progress
Tweet Like many people, I am guilty of procrastination. While I can be uncommonly disciplined in some areas of my life, I wait until the last possible moment to address others. This weekend it hit me that I have kept one of my most important business projects on the back burner for well over a year. I got up close and personal with myself trying to understand what was holding me back and what I needed to do to get beyond it. I want to share...
Read MoreStudents’ Career Decision Crisis and How to Avoid One
Tweet The credit crisis in America has taken a toll on the availability of student loan products as more lenders drop out of the business. According to Net Worth’s Kathleen Pender “More than two dozen non bank lenders have stopped making college loans and last week, three large banks followed suit.” The fact that college tuition is spiraling upward with no end in sight, adds to the ever growing importance of a...
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