With Christmas now receding into the distance, the rush is on in Japan to (literally) clean things up before 2008 ends and 2009 (the year of the Ox) begins.
I too have been busy - starting with a review of my own vision-roles-goals and then drilling down into what worked and what didn’t in [...]
Happy Xmas, Kuri-chan here.
Sired from prize champion American Cocker Spaniel stock.
Started a new life - flew all the way from Kyushu to Tokyo 5 years ago.
Ended up with this chump - thinks he knows how to run a career change blog
Bow Wow! Throw him a bone. No, don’t do that! Throw me one.
I’m [...]
Coming 25 Dec (or sooner, if my outsourced elves keep creating the digital pixie dust) is a unique career coaching and consultancy service for mid-career Information Technology Professionals.
Click on Tech Career ZigZag and see if this is for you.
I’ll be running a 48 hour special starting this Saturday midnight Japan time, where just 5 people [...]
I’ve enjoyed Simon Stapleton’s post on personality and IT Leaders and decided to take the free personality test at www.41q.com
There are indeed just 41 questions and it took me less than 10 minutes to complete. Here are my results:
As you can see, most suggested career paths are from the caring/helping professions - and it’s true [...]
Here’s a Christmas Career Coaching Special for IT Professionals - but you must act quickly…
… because there are just 12 slots and the offer finishes midnight 30 Nov.
Take action today and inside Santa’s stocking you’ll soon find these coaching goodies delivered to your digital in-box and (within a few weeks) to your doorstep:
1 CD copy [...]
Some years ago my parents finally gave up trying to understand my rather techie explanations of what I did for a living as a “computer guy in a bank” - it was a challenge to uncouple their belief that I was apparently as much responsible for the ebb and flow of stocks as those harassed [...]
One of the limiting aspects to my time management strategy has been a tendency to “over plan” goals and their related tasks - what I’d probably call an over indulgence in “self micro-management”, now that the jargon-creating neurons have lit up
By that I mean I’m one of those people who love planning around [...]
I recently discovered the “management wisdom” work of Nick McCormick and am looking forward to reading his book, “Lead Well and Prosper”.
In the meantime I checked out Nick’s interesting 6 minute management tips podcast with Dan Coughlin, intriguingly titled “The 1-3-6-Exercise“.
And although the focus of Nick’s site is on management, after listening I was struck [...]
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 [...]
