Career Coaching Articles

1). Bad Managers Are Costing You 73% Of Your Employee Productivity By : Amy Potavin
This may come as a surprise but it is, unfortunately, the reality. According to a recent Gallup study, only 29% of the workers polled were actively engaged in their work. And what, you're probably asking, exactly IS employee engagement? That is a very good question, and simply stated, it is the level of connection your employee has with you, your company, and the work you have him perform.
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2). Take The Heat Off HR – Encourage Career Self-Management By : Jill Frank
Is tackling talent management one of your goals this year? Employees are becoming more demanding, and topping their list is professional growth and development. These are the employees you should be striving to keep. They want new challenges, interesting work, and the opportunity to develop new skills. Even if you don’t have the resources to implement a full-scale career development program, you can still provide your employees with the tools and support to manage their own careers.
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3). Increase Your Value, Increase Your Salary By : Jill Frank
Although money shouldn’t be the most important factor in career decisions, it has a big impact on our lives. How much money we earn will dictate where we live, where we vacation, the lifestyle we enjoy, and how and when we will retire. When you work for someone else, you have a limited amount of control over your salary. You negotiate your starting salary and then you are given increases at management's discretion for annual reviews and promotions.
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4). Top 10 Steps To Catapult Your Career Up The Corporate Ladder By : Jill Frank
Every career success story is unique. While there isn’t a magic answer for taking your career to the top, following these ten steps will get you headed up the corporate ladder. 1. Reassess your career. Is your career path well aligned with your priorities and interest? Do you posses, or can you acquire, the experience and education to be successful? If not, consider a lateral move and work your way up from there.
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5). How Do You Define Career Success? By : Ian Christie
One of the most important career and life-planning activities you can engage in is finding your own definitions or models of success.
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6). Are you effective or ineffective in your life? By : Robin Harris
Copyright 2006 Robin Harris, DesignerLife Multi-tasking and saying “yes” to too many things can dilute your effectiveness. People who are generalists, by design, can manage the broad sweeping details of several related or unrelated projects. But those who are more inclined to be specialists are naturally designed to go deep not wide. The generalist will go stir crazy trying to play the role of the specialist and the specialist will lose access to their own competencies and strengths when trying to play the role of the generalist.
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7). Talent Management: What Does It Really Mean? By : john mce
The term talent management has become an HR hot phrase. The idea of being able to both identify and then manage the performance and motivation of the most business critical is alluring, but it is also fraught with dangers
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8). Inertia? 5 Tips to Getting Yourself Moving Again! By : Matthew C. Keegan
Inertia. Even the word sounds like a disease. No, it isn't literally a disease but it is one figuratively. Simply defined inertia is: resistance or disinclination to motion, action, or change. For those of us who are stuck in a job we hate, inertia can sap our energy, drain our lives of joy, and make us miserable to be around. The following 5 tips will help you make the changes necessary to bury your inertia.
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9). Career- Are You In The Right Seat? By : CD Mohatta
We all have a chair that designates a position in our career. For most of us the position, the responsibilities, the growth prospects and many such factors decide if we are happy in our seat? Sometimes, we may be unaware that another seat may send us much higher in the hierarchy and satisfaction level. Sometimes we are frustrated with our job for no easily identifiable reason.
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10). Top Ten Reasons To Hire A Personal Coach By : Kim Olver
Have you considered hiring a personal coach? Jack Canfield, in The Success Principles says hiring a "personal coach is one of the best-kept secrets of the successful." 1. A coach can help you clarify your vision and goals. If you have a sense that what you are doing isn’t the thing you really want for your life but you don’t have a clear vision of what you do want, then a coach can help you get clear.
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11). Ten Reasons to Invest in Your Career By : Ian Christie
Not investing in yourself is like floating down a fast river without a paddle, map or knowledge of what's around the next bend. Things may go fine for a while, but at some point, you're going to realize you made a giant mistake. To avoid such unforeseen disaster in your career, you need to invest in it to proactively and thoughtfully create a plan for achieving your career and life goals.
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12). The Case for Developing Line Manager Coaches By : john mce
Reviewing the data from the 2007 CIPD Learning and Development Survey, two findings jumped out at me. Firstly, the amount of coaching activity in organisations has declined for the first time in several years, and secondly line managers are the chief source of coaching within organisations.
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13). Career Change Begins by Taking These Steps Against Fear By : Cathy Goodwin
Often the biggest obstacle to career change is not an outdated resume but fear. Here are 3 steps to tackle the fear and get moving toward a new direction.
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