Every week I check dozens of “career” blogs and other online publications, looking for things that will help you find a job, get promoted, develop your skills, and keep everything in perspective and balance. Here’s the pick of the lot for this week. I’m pointing you to items about the future of the workplace, tips [...]
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTIONER
Title: “Film could make you lose your lunch”
Competencies: eating/nutrition, cognitive hardiness, economics
Who benefits: any individual
Consultant Usage: health coaches, nutritionists
What’s it about? This a quirky and unintended follow-up to last week’s posting. Last week I reviewed Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver. It was in part a scathing attack on corporate agribusiness [...]
You hear the phrase at parties. It shows up in text messages and tweets and emails. People get stuck in jobs they hate, but can’t leave. That only happens more often in a whitewater economy.
If that’s your situation, what should you do? Coach extraordinaire Shaun Kieran, likens the situation to being on a desert island.
Desert [...]
“I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous — everyone hasn’t met me yet.”
Rodney Dangerfield
Anytime we go anywhere with our guide dog puppy in training, Ajax, we plan on taking extra time. Almost without exception other people stop us to ask questions about the guide dog puppy raiser program [...]
Email marketing is one of the fastest growing marketing tactics globally – and in the US – in terms of the number of companies who use it. Not surprising since it’s pretty low cost compared to other tactics and major parts of it can be automated.
But email has its share of challenges. Chief among them [...]
Every week I check dozens of “career” blogs and other online publications, looking for things that will help you find a job, get promoted, develop your skills, and keep everything in perspective and balance. Here’s the pick of the lot for this week. I’m pointing you to items about starting a business (or not), credit [...]
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTIONER
Title: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
Competencies: eating/nutrition, cognitive hardiness, economics
Who benefits: any individual
Consultant Usage: health coaches, nutritionists
What’s it about? This book is about food, eating, nutrition, the economies of food, food and family life, and the social effects of personal change. I stopped reading it about half way through. I couldn’t stomach anymore.
Barbara [...]
Joseph Campbell was a mythologist by profession. He studied and wrote about comparative religion and comparative mythology.
Because he was both a prolific and engaging fellow, many people know him through video and audio tapes with titles like The Masks of God and The Hero’s Journey. They also picked up his philosophy, “Follow your bliss.”
The idea [...]
“Free” isn’t a selling point. If you want people to give up an hour of their time to come to your webinar, you need to give them real value in return.
I realize you probably think I’m stating the obvious, but I’m doing it for a very good reason. You see, I help businesses by writing e-mail [...]
“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye.”
Antoine de Saint Exupery
Ajax, the guide dog puppy we are currently raising to hopefully lead someone who is sight impaired is a great metaphor for the executive coaching work I do with senior level leaders. It’s amazing [...]