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The 5 Minute Career Mentor – Listening

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 [...]

Self Coaching For Career And Life Change

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 [...]

Children Say

Sometimes children can be an unexpected and innocent source of great career change advice.
Case in point.
When my wife asked how went day 1 of my IT consulting gig, my daughter aka Princess Smiley (she’s crazy about Miley Cyrus) came straight out with:
“Do you actually do stuff on your computer at work?”
Wow!
Now there’s a reflective [...]