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 […]
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Time management is such an irresistible topic for personal development authors and career change coaches! It’s exactly like that Oscar Wilde quote about temptation; “I can resist everything except writing about time management”!
But, as we know all too well, the plain truth is that you cannot manage time - you can only choose how to […]
There was one question submitted on the topic of successful career change using goals, coaching and mentoring:
http://markmccluretoday.com/question-and-answer-time
1-Fred Friedman wrote:
Q1-Isn’t career change just running away from problems you’ll meet again anyway?
A1- Let me start by reminding you that there are no such things as problems - only opportunities
Sorry for that helpless Dilbert-esque outburst - but […]
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 […]
Thursday, January 17, 2008
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 […]
Friday, December 21, 2007
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 […]
Thursday, December 20, 2007
Watch this short video.
There’ll be a test tomorrow
– Mark McClure
