Last December I wrote about taking Prof Edgar Schein’s Career Anchors online assessment test that also comes with a downloadable 72 page participant workbook.
(The test is administered and published by Pfeiffer, a division of John Wiley & Sons inc. The test link is here).
Here are 8 comments I want to make after going through [...]
Just like career choices, some fruits are grown naturally.
And others aren’t.
Take your pick.
- Mark McClure
As a Career change and Life coach I get quite a kick from helping people “do more of what you love”.
But, as with many things in life, results can take time and are often different from what was first conceived.
Yet, in my coaching practice I do meet clients who are prepared to honestly assess their [...]
There’s an old, somewhat worn out personal development / goal setting exercise that usually goes something like this:
“Imagine you’ve just six months to live.
What would you do?
Where would you go?
Who would you spend time with?”
I (and some of my coaching clients) invariably have trouble imagining our own future demise - it’s been no easy [...]
“The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.”
Professor Albert Bartlett
I came across Prof Bartlett’s work while I was googling how to better explain percentage changes to my sixth grade daughter recently.
Having taught Maths & Physics in the UK many moons ago I was intrigued enough to check [...]
Have current “problems” in world financial markets (probably an understatement, I know…) spooked your career change plans?
I don’t blame you - people have a natural (survival) inclination “to batten down the hatches” in uncertain times and concentrate on staying afloat.
And I know all too well for a lot of potential career changers that means [...]
I mentioned career coach Joanne Dustin’s site, Career Lost and Found, in a previous post and today I’d like to review her book, “Life Beyond IT”. (Also available on Amazon.com)
Two important points:
First of all, this book is aimed directly at Information Technology professionals who are considering a career change, although the coaching themes running through [...]
OK, time for an update on my “invisible target” post.
Thanks to Geoff Roberston over at total self improvement for his vote. I’d dropped the ball on this and forgotten to close comments on 23 February.
Lucky I didn’t!
So the invisible target on my desk now has something to visualize around - and to keep taking [...]
Even though it was way back in 1980, I can still recall doing 105 press ups on the evening of the 10th October - my 20th birthday.
105 remains my personal best and the closest I’ve come since then is 80 - achieved last year after a few months of daily practice, working my way up [...]
One unnerving aspect to career change is leaving safe and familiar territory to take a calculated risk in some unexplored field.
Even with years of experience and transferable skills, it can be an exciting but often nerve racking ride - as you find yourself (temporarily) “knowingly incompetent” in new skills others have already mastered.
Rather than being [...]
