A common question posed by clients is “How can I determine what are my transferable skills?” It’s a good question, but emanates from what is often a mistaken belief that a crisp articulation of transferable skills will qualify a job applicant for consideration. Unfortunately, in most instances that’s simply not the case. What are some […]
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A huge obstacle that many of the clients I counsel need to overcome is their disappointment with not having landed the kinds of jobs they applied for that seemed “just right” for them. A phrase that I often use in these situations that these clients have found to be resonant is: “If the train doesn’t […]
Continue readingMy apologies for having skipped a week of postings. I had a lot to catch up on after my 10 day vacation in Maine, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island where I successfully escaped the DC heat and managed to consume enormous quantities of fantastic shellfish. I spent the entire 10 days in the company […]
Continue readingI don’t have a lot of rules that I apply across-the-board. But “Keep your advice to yourself” (unless directly asked for it) is one of them. Why? I have come to know, through my work with many, many different people over the years, that we are all unique in so many respects – our inherited […]
Continue readingNo, shoe shifting isn’t about selecting a different pair of footwear for your night on the town. It’s about the immeasurably valuable skill of being able to observe a situation from another’s perspective, detached at least to some degree from one’s own rational and emotional constructs. It’s a skill of particular value in a wide […]
Continue readingLast week, a surgeon named Atul Gawande wrote an article for the “Annals of Medicine” section of the New Yorker magazine titled “Personal Best”. It dealt with his positive experience with a coach, and went on to describe the long-standing and widespread use of coaching among people at the top of their game, ranging from Yitzhak […]
Continue readingLast night virtually the entire nation moved its clocks back an hour as we went from Daylight to Standard time. There always seems to be something magical, mystical, and cosmic in this annual ritual, and so I decided to make time the subject of today’s post. A very common sub-theme of issues that clients bring […]
Continue readingAn article in last week’s New York Times reported on a focus group of independent voters who saw, in politics, in the media, and in business symptoms of a larger societal ailment. They cited the breakdown of civil society: the disappearance of common courtesy, the relentless stream of data from digital devices, the proliferation of […]
Continue readingYesterday I arrived home from my office at 6:30 and noticed the back door was slightly ajar. Sometimes I don’t close it quite firmly enough, so I thought that had been the case then. Next I noticed a window at the front of the house was open. Not until I got upstairs and saw the […]
Continue readingYesterday I had my third session with a client who is in her early 40s, has a PhD in chemistry, a Masters in electrical engineering, and a Bachelor’s in art history, and who attended one of the top 3 Ivy League schools. She has worked at a government agency, a major consulting firm, and a […]
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