Top 5 Focuses For 2023

Top 5 Focuses For 2023

My top five tips for having success in a 2023 job campaign are: Get your ask-on!  Be prepared to network, network, network. With so many people looking for work a key technique to differentiate yourself is by identifying someone inside your target companies to be a...

Cathedrals of Time – Honoring Your Productivity

“What lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.”                                                             -Aristotle   We all have the same 24 hours each day – no more, no less. If you think about it objectively, how we invest those 24 hours is...

Goal Setting from Desire

It’s the end of January and the first month of the year is almost gone. I host a monthly meeting and have been reflecting about our discussion on effective goal setting. With a faint lingering hangover of New Year’s Resolutions and the sad fact that 97% are abandoned...

Event + Response = Outcome (Responding too soon.)

At a recent meeting with a large group of job seekers, I was heartened to hear how many have positive activity occurring in their search.  However, in contrast, I am also struck by some who have worked hard to get something-anything to happen that once they finally...

Aligning With True Motivation

For a long time, the way we understood motivation really worked. It built companies that would become corporate giants and household names; it made us—and our employees—work harder; it generated enormous profits. That model of motivation was this: pay people, and...