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Savvy Professional Career Wisdom by Caroline Dowd-Higgins
This is Not the Career I Ordered is read by thousands of careerists around the globe. With savvy tools, inspiration, and resources, this timeless book empowers you to enjoy your career, and love your life!
Tell Your Story to Stand Out in Your Career
The sensory overload and overwhelm of social media and office communication can make it difficult to rise above the noise and be heard and recognized in the career space. You have a very short timeframe to articulate your value-add in an interview, a performance evaluation, or an entrepreneurial pitch for start-up funding, for example. To […]
Your Career Advantage
In 2021, I began writing a bi-weekly LinkedIn newsletter which now has over 4,400 global subscribers and growing. This incredible community of professionals has taught me so much and I am committed to sharing tools and resources to help us all navigate a lifelong career journey with meaning and purpose. As an executive coach and […]
Cool-Power Leadership: 4 Guidelines To Cultivate Yours
What do you value most in a leader? The 4th annual Ketchum Leadership Communication Monitor (KLCM) recently came out with some interesting findings that point to changing views about leadership around the globe. An online survey went out to six thousand people in different parts of the world last spring – asking what they valued […]
It’s Time to Focus on Your Career Future
Summer vacations have ended and the kids are back in school so it’s a great time to prioritize your professional journey. According to a global LinkedIn study, September is one of the best months of the year to get promoted. “Now is a great time to check your career plan, and make sure that you […]
How Microlearning Can Shrink The Skills Gap
Chloe Britton shared this guest blog post. She is the Brand Manager of training app Wranx – which provides continual training and assessment to help HR and learning and development professionals extend their training and communication strategies out of the classroom and office. The skills gap between people and technology is growing all the time. But […]
25 Habits Of A Successful Job Seeker
Many thanks to Victoria Vein for this guest blog post. She is a specialist at the Resume Writing Lab Company helping people with job application documents. No one is born successful. Every admirable individual has to spend years, if not decades, shaping his or her character and attaining personal objectives. However, when it comes to […]
Asking For Career Help When You Need It: 5 Empowering Tips
I meet lots of self-directed, self-possessed women who struggle with asking for help – especially when it comes to their careers. Many coaching clients and women I’ve met during workshops and speaking engagements have shared how difficult it’s been to reach out – a lot of them feeling that asking for help is akin to […]
Company Loyalty: Does It Still Exist? 3 Tips To Help You Prepare For Change
An illuminating study, by Monster.Com, highlights employees’ changing attitudes around loyalty in the workplace…so I ask you…where do you fall on the job loyalty spectrum? Are you in your job for the long haul, or looking to make your next move? According to the Monster research, being happy on the job is no longer a […]
We’re Stuck in a Success Crisis! And It’s Affecting Our Kids
Susan Ford Collins is a guest on my podcast show – Your Working Life. I am delighted to share her guest blog post about the success crisis. Success and leadership have gears… and we’re not shifting them correctly! We’ve gotten stuck in “the more-better-faster, what-have-you-done-for-me-lately, too-busy-racing-around-to-enjoy-our-lives” gear. We’re over-fed, under-nourished, over-medicated, under-rested, and under-satisfied. Think […]
Leadership Lessons I Learned This Summer
I turned my participation at the National Speakers Association convention into a hybrid getaway. NSA was a transformative learning experience to help me grow my business and a wonderful way to enjoy the sights, sounds, and flavors of Washington, DC. I knew I would glean great info about how to grow as a global public speaker […]
Self-Sabotage No More – Part II: 7 Strategies For Allowing Success
Self-sabotage is when your actions are working against your own best interests, according to Adam Sicinski, creator of the Overcoming Self-Sabotage Mind Map at IQMatrix.com – so the more you can bring self-sabotaging behaviors into conscious awareness, the better. Sicinski says, “[fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding=”” […]
Self-Sabotage No More – Part I: Connecting With Your Inner Voice
Coaching clients often come to me feeling frustrated because they aren’t moving up in their careers. When we delve deeper into the underlying reasons, oftentimes the culprit is self-sabotage. What Is Self-Sabotage? Adam Sicinski, creator of the Overcoming Self-Sabotage Mind Map at IQMatrix.com, defines self-sabotage as “…a conflict between conscious desires and unconscious wants.” In […]
Balance is Bunk: Realistic Work/Life Integration Strategies
The unrealistic concept of work/life balance makes me cringe. Most women are time starved, sleep deprived and burning the candle at both ends to keep up with career demands and being the Chief Household Officer. Those with kids have an extra layer of beautiful chaos while trying to raise younglings to become well-adjusted adults. You […]
4 Innovative Networking Tactics That Can Land You A Job
Networking has always been essential in professional life, whether you’re searching for a new job or simply looking to expand opportunities in your field. Making connections is what helps you move through the ranks and reveal new pathways you may not have even known existed. However, just as the job market is competitive; trying to […]
