Why do we need to prepare for career transitions? To answer this, let me quote Jenny Blake in Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One who says, “Some say the word career itself is dead—a throwback to a bygone era—as we move...
Last week I was coaching three people in different parts of the world around their career concerns amidst covid19. They were not entrepreneurs, so their concerns were not around business continuity or some of the more pressing issues like salary payments to employees. They were...
If you are even half serious or interested in making a career transition, career change or developing your own career, then here is something simple and powerful to get you started right away. And it’s based on solid, scientific research. It’s called Expressive Writing. In 1994,...
How often as a child did you have to answer, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” How often do you ask this question of young people, and are you really interested in their answer? As a career coach, I encounter many adults,...
Career transitions are brought on by external and internal triggers. While there are parts of the transition process which are common to both kinds of transitions, there are also particular skills and mindsets which are more helpful in each kind of transition. What are external and...
Movies and stories – they often imitate real life and sometimes they can be powerful analogies to explore themes in real life. Many of you may have seen the classic, intensely dark psychological thriller SEVEN. Seven (stylized as SE7EN) is a 1995 American crime thriller film directed...
I have always marveled at the power of stories and myths in helping us make sense of our (personal and collective) psychological realities as well as in understanding broader socio-cultural-economic shifts. Myths find their reflections in reality and studying them gives us another frame with...
Last week, two conversations stood out for me. One, when I was coaching a person around transition and the other a conversation with an ecosystem partner. In the first conversation, the person was trying to ‘mainstream’ into a corporate career after years of being an entrepreneur...
In the first part of this series on Preparing for the Future of Work and Transitions, I spoke about the pressing need to re-invent oneself, not only in terms of skills, but also by re-wiring how we think about our work and ourselves to navigate the new...
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