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Reinventing Your Career—Purpose and Cause
For too many experienced professionals, the later stages of their careers feel more like prison sentences than rich opportunities to learn and grow. Yet, investing time to rethink your personal purpose and cause through the lens of your experience, can set the stage for the most productive, rewarding portion of your career and life.
5 Important Lessons of Successful Career Reinventors
For most people, the idea of reinventing themselves in their careers remains a fantasy. However, for those who do move from fantasy and ideas to actions, the career reinvention process is filled with obstacles to be overcome. Here are 5 big lessons learned from some successful career reinventors:
4 Tactics to Help You Survive Working for a Dictator-Manager
Very few of us escape our careers without working for a dictator-manager at some point in time. If it’s your time, here are 4 tactics you can use to keep your values and your sanity intact:
For Professional Growth, Thin-Slice Behavior Change with the Help of a Swim Buddy
Too often, our approach to professional development and growth comes in the form of big, broad solutions and approaches. While these approaches sound appealing, they often don’t address the core behaviors essential for improving performance. Instead, learn to thin-slice your professional development for effective behavior change. It helps to recruit a Swim Buddy along the way.
“Managing Oneself” 2018-Style
Peter Drucker’s classic article, “Managing Oneself” may be the best career guide since Ben Franklin penned Poor Richard’s Almanack. Here are six added questions for our era to accompany Drucker’s simply powerful original five.
Challenging Conversations and Career Success
Perhaps the single most valuable piece of career advice I ever received happened early in my career. I’m not certain I understood the importance of this advice at the time, but it stuck with me. The advice is:
Manager, It’s Time to Unpack Your Self-Limiting Beliefs
We’re all guilty of building obstacles to progress in our minds. Successful managers learn to unpack those obstacles and overcome the self-limiting beliefs holding them hostage. Here are 8 key questions to help:
Career Reinvention—Overcoming Your View on You
For individuals considering a career makeover, it’s imperative to refresh the view on you. To introduce some objectivity into the process and navigate beyond your blindspots, consider asking for help. This article shares a number of ideas to help you better tune-in to others’ perception of your true skills and abilities.
Moving Beyond a Plateau— 9 Lessons in Career Reinvention
Getting started on the hard, important work of reinventing your career is a challenging proposition. Here are 9 lessons I’ve learned from working with some great professionals on this process, along with some ideas for you to consider.










