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Category Archives: Mentoring

Question And Answer Time

It’s usually career and life coaches that come up with the questions!
Let’s turn that around and have a question and answer session where you get to ask what’s on your mind.
Topic: “Successful Career Change Using Goals, Coaching and Mentoring”
Rules: One question per reader please.
Ask your question as a comment to this post and I will [...]

Thailand Here I Come!

Would you move half a world away in your early 40s and start over?
That’s what one of my mentors and now good friend, Charles Burke, did
in the 1980s when he moved from the US to Japan.
His story inspired me to seek him out and we have talked on the
phone every couple of weeks for several [...]

Blog Readers 48 Hour Special Has Started

The $10 email subscribers special for the IT Career Engineer Special CD report has finished.
The product price is now $25 for the next 48 hours for all blog readers - so if you’ve found this post by accident or are subscribed via a Feedreader, you are what I call a (very welcome) blog [...]

Email Subscribers 48 Hour Special Has Started

The 48 hour order link for the IT Career Engineer’s Special CD Video report is now available to anyone already subscribed to my email blog announcement list.
You can never be certain of Internet email delivery these days but in theory, my email service provider will send all subscribers a message at 7am New York time [...]

Launching The Information Technology (IT) Career Mentoring Special Report

The premise of my business and this blog is all about achieving the dream of successful career change - by using goals, coaching and mentoring.
Goal setting and coaching are what I call ‘generic skills” and can be applied to many areas where change and personal growth is desired.
However, mentoring’s somewhat different.
An effective mentor is someone [...]

The IT Career Engineer’s Special Video Report

“20 Freaking Awesome Years From a Certified Coach and Internetworking Expert in 179 Minutes.”
Are you:
- Starting a technical career in IT but wondering how to make it a worthwhile one?
- An experienced IT Professional in career transition?
- An IT Team Leader Trying To “Do More with Less”?

The globalization of Information Technology continues to gather pace [...]

About that CEO Performance Appraisal Email…

Did you watch this video?
http://markmccluretoday.com/?p=20
I assume none of my readers have ever sent such a career limiting email!
I’m certainly not encouraging it in any situation where you are still performing an employee role.
But I do recommend you send it in one particular case - when you are the CEO that I speak of.
So, if you [...]

Video Email To Your CEO

Watch this short video.
There’ll be a test tomorrow

– Mark McClure

While You See a (Training) Chance, Take it!

Employees: When’s the last time you selected and then attended a training course paid for by your employer?
Business Owners: When’s the last time you invested money in your own education?
For me, both questions are linked because looking back on time spent as an employee, I recall passing up several opportunities to take first class training [...]