Friday, February 26, 2010
Self-esteem coaching is about making positive and lasting changes in your life by going back to the very basics.
During my university years I conducted lots of research about self-esteem (I studied psychology in University of St Andrews in Scotland).
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
It’s a well written piece – with the subheadings from page one alone telling a particularly torrid and alarming story (e.g. Quarter-million jobs, Self-worth, No Callbacks, Transaction bubble, Nobu’s Retreat).
According to my Tokyo headhunter contacts, most all the Foreign Banks are in lock down mode for IT hiring. Good people are being let go, sent overseas (Singapore is popular) or outsourced.
Friday, February 27, 2009
Get a bunch of coaches together and some are likely to start coaching each other – with consent, of course. I’d dread to see non-consensual coaching haha!
Anyway, we were doing some practice in one of the ICF’s 11 core coaching competencies. And tonight’s was all about “Setting The Foundation”.
Friday, February 13, 2009
There are now over 180 posts on this blog – many about mid-career change.
However I realize that few readers will have the time or patience to go rummaging through the archives looking for diamonds among others collecting digital dust.
What I’m going to do is put together “The Best Of MarkMcClureToday Volume 1″ and release it as special report.
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
If coaching’s taught me anything, it’s that accountability is a formidable tool for personal change when wielded constructively. People often hire coaches to hold their proverbial feet to the fire – and that can be well worth the cost.
Another approach is to follow the ’success crumbs’ of someone who’s already doing what interests you. That’s my current approach when it comes to adding freelance writing to a mid-career change repertoire.
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
This post’s for UK-based Information Technology employees worried about losing their jobs but nonetheless determined to survive and thrive – and is a follow-up to my post on ‘career support for IT professionals’.
Having just talked Friday night with an IT career coach back in the Sceptred Isle, here’s a 1st draft outline of what we’d like to cover in a series of teleseminars:
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Information Technology professionals are being affected by job losses, offshoring and outsourcing in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
Just take the recent news by Dell Ireland to move 1900 jobs from Limerick to Poland – no doubt some IT jobs are either included in this number or affected by it.
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
I’ve been visiting the UK-based Career Shifters for some months now – and also added their link to my blogroll.
I highly recommend this site if you’re looking for real life stories and inspiration (and yes, problems too…) from people at various stages of career change.
Naturally, there’s a UK-theme to it but also lots of generic [...]
Saturday, January 10, 2009
MEMO TO MYSELF: “Are you doing things which make money?”
By definition, successful business owners get this. (I’m defining ’successful’ to mean those who have a business from which they make an honest living.)
Anything less is ‘failure’.
Don’t take this personally – you can be ‘failing forward’ in the sense of taking action on your goals and [...]