A New Direction

What if I told you that you can actually craft your own career?  Meaning what if you could put your passions, gifts, talents, and desires together and actually create the career you were looking for?  Would you be interested if the career you wanted could be had?  What if I told you that there is a demonstrated method that has helped students, veterans, and mid-career people get the job they had a...

We are living in very unique times that is for certain.  There is no one who could have prepared to see so many businesses suddenly close their doors and employees suddenly be out of work.  But that is exactly what has happened as CoVid-19 or the Coronavirus entered our world.  Many small businesses may be completely shut down…some are barely going to get by.  The U.S. Government has signale...

Have you ever said, “I hate my job”?  Maybe you have said, “I need to make a career change”.  Did you know for most people they believe that the problem with their current job or career is their boss?  Research has even pointed out the most people leave their job because of their boss.  What if I were to tell you that your job, your boss, your current career, may not be you...

Have you ever thought you could be an entrepreneur?  Probably.  You have either now or sometime in the past have said, “my idea could be a business”.  So what stopped you?  Maybe you didn’t believe your idea was good enough.  Maybe you thought, “where am I going to get the money”.  Maybe the whole idea of just running your own business overwhelmed you once you started...

So often we point fingers at leaders for their problems.  We will look so intently at the things we do not like about a particular leader and in the process we neglect to realize we have become arrogant believing that we “know” more, or someone else would be better suited to be in their place.  The fact is our belief that we are so smart and no so much has created a state of “Hub...

It has been said that “Culture eats strategy for breakfast” well if that is so true why do people spend more money on “strategy” than “culture”?  Think about this way…you can have what is considered to be a great strategy, but if your people will not implement it…it really doesn’t matter.  The reality is if you have a great culture you can acco...

Fear.  So often we do not want to admit it.  But as long as we are human we will fear.  But what about fear when it comes to leadership?  Can a leader afford to be afraid?  A leader may deny their they are afraid, but the truth is their behavior will give them away.  Because no matter how hard you try to deny it or ignore it, fear will rear it’s ugly head in a variety of different ways and f...

There is a variety of research out there that suggests you will have between 7 and 10 jobs in your life time.  For some more and others less.  Of all those jobs that you will take will be with the competition of the employer you are currently working for.  Job transitioning on the outset sounds like a fundamental right.  And it is true you have a right to leave your place of employment, but that d...

Networking is truly more are than science.  There is a tremendous difference between those who are great networkers and those that work at networking.  There are many people, perhaps you who just dread the idea of networking, or perhaps are frustrated by it, or maybe you have felt that you have tried networking face-to-face, but you just didn’t get the results you wanted so you have given up...

Agile is a process that allows teams to basically work independently on small pieces of a larger project.  Basically they govern themselves, work in spurts (called sprints) and are suppose to be unified on what they will work on at any given time.  But does that really work without leadership involvement?  Perhaps not as consistently well as we would like to believe.  The fact is even though in pr...