For nearly 2 years (while I was in CCIE “do or die” study mode) all I ever seemed to read were Cisco Press books. And even now my forearm muscle memory cannot forget carrying those 500(!) page books on 2 hour round trip commutes in crowded Tokyo trains, with one hand on the hanging strap [...]
In the previous post I recommended Sir John Whitmore’s book, Coaching For Performance, to any true student of performance improvement.
It’s a fabulous, easy-to-read book and I often refer to it for coaching inspiration. Not least because the author acknowledges the contributions of his friend and colleague, David Hemery, the 1968 Olympic 400m Hurdles Champion.
David Hemery [...]
Today’s post’s addressed to anyone who’s firmly in the ‘tech’ or ‘geek’ career camp and wants to add some useful and transferable ’soft’ skills to their repertoire.
For starters, here are two benefits that can come from applying a coaching mindset to your work:
1- Coaching skills will help you enjoy your tech job even more than [...]
Here’s the second in an occasional series of “Friday Gold” wisdom nuggets mined from the web.
Enjoy!
Gold: The Art of Manliness
This post appealed to my sense of fair play and to the power of inspired team work. Check out Denzel Washington’s words to his football charges on the fields of Gettysburg.
(Way back in teen years I [...]
With the ongoing upheavals in Global Financial Markets, it’s a given that large numbers of Information Technology (IT) folks are in the firing line (literally), such is that sector’s dependency on advanced computer systems and networks.
For some (I’m thinking particularly of those at Lehman Brothers) there is the likelihood of redundancy and dilemmas about whether [...]
Bill Machi rose to the challenge of giving feedback about this blog and after thinking over what he had to say there are two changes on the way.
Change One
Separate out church and state - sorry, just my mischievous sense of humour - I meant to write, “create a dedicated career coaching/consulting site and keep [...]
When I started this blog last November I knew I wanted many of the posts to not only help people with their own mid-life career transitions - at whatever stage they might be with them…
… but also to weave in a sense of my own coaching philosophy and approach, so that readers and potential clients [...]
Well….
Is it?
Do you?
These are probably 3 of the most important questions potential career changers can ever ask themselves - especially those who’ve come to coaching already convinced they want the coach to help them make a career change from the <insert expletive> job they presently have…
… and such “conviction” is often not the case.
You see, [...]
Most anyone I know who’s started blogging seems to develop a compulsion to check their visitor stats daily.
That’s sure been my experience and I must admit to being very curious about not only where my visitors are coming from and how long they stick around - but to why they do so.
What brings people to [...]
