Action is fuelled by intention. What do you want to accomplish? That’s the easy part, for the job seeker, it is an offer for employment, (the End Goal).
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Never confuse motion with action. Benjamin Franklin
Posted in "resume writing services", Emotional Intelligence, career, career transition, change, coaching, leadership, mindfulness, outplacement, work life balance on 11/12/2009 | Leave a Comment »
relevance
Posted in business, career, career transition, change, coaching, communication, creativity, goals, how to, leadership, motivation, outplacement, work on 08/24/2009 | Leave a Comment »
When I was a recruiting manager years ago, resumes were essentially similar to a job description. Responsible for they would say. There would be lists of job duties that only implied the work involved. In the interview, the recruiter would have to ask questions to ferret out what the interviewee actually did with those job [...]
its a full moon, right?
Posted in career on 08/07/2009 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday, I told a friend, it took a cupcake to settle down. If truth be told, two were required to pull mind and body back out of the trenches. It was one of those days, not to be repeated for a while I hope. That might give me enough time to recall what it is I [...]
beginner’s mind
Posted in Emotional Intelligence, awareness, business, career, career transition, change, coaching, communication, goals, how to, leadership, life, mindfulness, motivation, outplacement, psychology, work, work life balance on 07/29/2009 | Leave a Comment »
That is all it takes to get started, when you have Beginner’s Mind. Getting over a little fear. There is a freshness, -a golly gee whiz, look what I’m doing- feeling that emerges. Call it naïve, call it simplicity, but when I started writing that book, I didn’t have a clue what the pitfalls might be.
seeing the forest and the tree
Posted in Emotional Intelligence, business, career, career transition, change, coaching, communication, goals, how to, mindfulness, outplacement, work life balance, tagged business, career, coaching, goal setting, how to, mindfulness, resume, self awareness on 04/26/2009 | Leave a Comment »
The client who told me he worked for the Proactive department was looking just at the tree, not the forest. My professional opinion was, he needed a serious resume rewrite
acceptance
Posted in Emotional Intelligence, business, career, change, coaching, culture, life, mindfulness, work life balance, tagged business, change, coaching, Emotional Intelligence, life, mindfulness, self awareness on 10/03/2008 | 1 Comment »
I gave a presentation yesterday to a group at Ohio State University. While it wasn’t about this topic, I touched on the concept of Acceptance. Its not a word we use often; it might bring up for you competing ideas, such as: action is better than non-action, never give up, be pro-active, its not the American way. This may be [...]
7 values for being; engaged in life and work
Posted in Emotional Intelligence, business, career, change, coaching, life, mindfulness, work, work life balance, tagged awareness, change, coaching, how to, life, values on 08/24/2008 | 2 Comments »
My work is informed by a personal philosophy developed through years of teaching Mindfulness and Wellness practices. Here is the lens through which I see the world and consult with others. These ideas are successfully applied in coaching/training individuals as well as organizations.
1. Change is the only constant. This ancient principle is more evident today than ever. (As the [...]
work life balance: attending to what matters
Posted in career, mindfulness, work, work life balance, tagged career, technology, whole brain, work life balance on 08/14/2008 | 2 Comments »
Mindful LIfe/Mindful Work is a different sort of name for an organization. The operative word Mindful speaks to a way of being as well as a practice. The name came to me from hearing clients and students introduce themselves by saying they had a career, (usually hand gestures would point somewhere to the side) and then there was [...]
