Before You Do My friend Art and I still reminisce about a customer meeting we attended together years ago. It was my freshman year in the corporate world and my first business trip. My job in the meeting was to utter three whole sentences about how the numbers were derived. He insists he saw something special in […]
Call it Floating In response to the last issue on Moving Forward, Sharon, a long-time In the Current subscriber, emailed me with a question. Having just been through an intense time of various changes, she comments: I am perfectly happy right now just floating in the sea of life and not wanting to move forward yet. So […]
The Current’s Natural Cycle Movement, momentum, and progress – they’re attractive words. From personal goals to business plans, we want to see that forward movement. Over the last 13 years of coaching people from diverse backgrounds and industries, I’ve detected a natural cycle through which we move constantly.
My Sense of Direction “I don’t really need the GPS for this trip but I’ll plug it in just in case.” My mother-in-law, Sandi is quite familiar with the predictable explanation I typically offer as we buckle up our seat belts. She gives me a knowing smile and has no issue should a broken U-turn […]
Navel Gazing Part of my job as a coach is to ask the deep questions. Why do you want that? What purpose does that serve? What difference will it make? And what does that mean to you?
It’s Been Done Before As a communications major, I was looking forward to the advertising class despite the fact that it was three hours long and on Monday nights. The professor (who did not look like Don Draper) was from J. Walter Thompson, one of the largest ad agencies in the world1. A been-there-done-that-seen-it-all guy, he was rather […]
Wrong Answer I’m not sure how this was possible but upon graduating from college, I embarked on a job hunt without ever having practiced a mock interview with the university’s career department. While my business major pals were scripted and ready, this liberal arts gal was a bit less prepared. When the interviewer posed a […]
Be When you first hear the coaching concept called Be-Do-Have, you might think it’s about as useful as the advice to “be the ball”, generally reserved for parodying us coaches and motivator types. So rather than just talk theory, today I bring you an actual example of someone who applied the Be-Do-Have principle with great […]
Last time I wrote about Other People’s Success. Today, let’s look at your success. The Blurb Queen When it’s performance review time, you know the drill: Dust off last year’s template and hope that the reality of what you worked on this year somewhat resembles the performance measures on which you’ll be ranked.
How Do You React? It was the first thing announced as she came in the door. Carla, a recent graduate, and my friend’s eldest daughter told us that her friend was offered a full time position at the company where they both worked part-time during college. It was a job Carla might have wanted herself […]