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, 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:
Thursday, November 20, 2008
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 [...]
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Over at Simon Stapleton’s blog he’s chasing a $1000 donation target for his cancer research appeal…. just $474.50 to reach that milestone.
If you’re one of the first 10 people to respond here’s how you can help out and also get a gift copy of my IT Career Engineer Special Video Report on CD – [...]
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
If you’re an experienced IT ‘Subject-Matter-Expert’ now interested in adding a management/leadership role to your professional skillset, CIO Simon Stapleton has written a useful 24 page e-book on “The Essence Of IT Leadership Vol 1“.
I downloaded and read it in about 30 minutes and here are some comments on what I’ve learned, written from a [...]
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
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 [...]
Here’s the first in an occasional series of relatively short posts written from a mentoring perspective.
In other words, this is knowledge I gained from others and have found useful in my life and career.
1- “The Method Of Polite Conversation”
This technique is really simple and can work well when talking to someone else or in small [...]
Since Google is well known for being a great place to work and following on from Tuesday’s post on Google TechTalks Coaching , below is my current list of questions about coaching and mentoring within the Big ‘G’.
To get the creative juices flowing I used my trusty copy of MindGenius and generated a simple outline [...]
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 [...]
Just a quick note from last Friday’s post about the e-coaching service I was planning to launch by May 1.
Unfortunately this will be delayed a wee bit longer due to some technical issues.
As soon as these are fixed I will let you know via this blog’s email announcement list.
The good news is that I will [...]