Finding the right community to help grow your career isn’t always easy. Sometimes the better path is to build your own community. Here’s how I did it.
Forever Employable Stories: Michael Bungay Stanier, best-selling author of The Coaching Habit
How to continuously reinvent yourself with Michael Bungay Stanier
Forever Employable Webinar: Lessons learned with Katie Saindon and David O’Malley
Katie Saindon and David O'Malley took the ideas in Forever Employable and put them into action immediately.
Forever Employable Webinar: Storytelling as a competitive advantage with Bill Smartt, elite speaking coach
Elite speaking coach Bill Smartt and I spend an hour discussing how to tell a compelling story, even from your home office.
Forever Employable Stories: Lindsey Pollak, NYT best-selling author and multi-generational work expert
Just ask for what you want. It sounds simple and straightforward and yet so few of us actually do it. It's something I've had to practice doing, shushing the voice in my head, "you're just going to bother that already-busy person, leave them alone." Well, it turns out just asking pays off. That's how I … Continue reading Forever Employable Stories: Lindsey Pollak, NYT best-selling author and multi-generational work expert
Forever Employable Stories: Alisa Cohn, #1 Startup Coach in the World
I was lucky enough to meet Alisa Cohn by chance. Dorie Clark, who wrote the forward for Forever Employable, invited me to a virtual cocktail party a few months ago where Alisa was the co-host. We kept in touch over the subsequent months and recently I had a chance to catch up with Alisa one-on-one … Continue reading Forever Employable Stories: Alisa Cohn, #1 Startup Coach in the World
Outsource the work you hate. It shows.
The work you do that you don't love to do is obvious to your customers and clients. Here's what to do about it.
What problem do you help people solve?
Your core value is the thing that won't change in 10 or even 20 years. How you deliver on that core value will evolve with the times, your career and your personal choices.
How to use OKRs to set goals for your professional and personal development
Image credit: https://greatist.com/ A few weeks ago I shared with you the most basic description of Objectives and Key Results -- the goal-setting trend sweeping the business world -- I could come up with. The basic idea is that you set aspirational qualitative goals for your teams, products or business (objectives) and measure whether you’ve … Continue reading How to use OKRs to set goals for your professional and personal development
Forever Employable Stories: Danny Thompson, software developer and community leader
I stumbled across Danny Thompson’s twitter account not too long ago. Immediately I noticed that this was no ordinary software developer. Not only was he humbly sharing his learning journey online with his followers, he was giving back to them by helping them get hired in the software industry. In the meantime he’d grown his … Continue reading Forever Employable Stories: Danny Thompson, software developer and community leader