Career Management

Think of how much of our lives we spend working. If you are not happy or at least satisfied at work, it's hard to be happy in the rest of your life. After a while, negative emotions spill over.

Typical challenges:

• Difficulties with your boss, your colleagues or your staff
  In particular, problems with the person above you can wear you down, make you angry and less competent, and eat away at your self-confidence. And less-than-competent bosses abound. This is the #1 on-the-job issue I've seen in my ten years of practice.
  
  We'll work together to identify strategies for building better relationships, changing systems, managing a bad boss, and perhaps reducing emotional engagement in unproductive workplace dynamics.
• Seeking and getting a promotion
  
  Career Management Resources
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  your job satisfaction and success.
  There's a time to ask, and ways to prepare so you'll get a yes. Let's map them out, step-by-step.
• Starting a new job
  You've got the job — now start off right! There is learning on best practices for the first three months. Whether you're a manager or a newbie, avoid common pitfalls and start smart.
• Assure a higher level of job security
  The old days of just doing a good job are gone. Learn new techniques to assure your work gets noticed, you get connected to the right people, you learn new things — on the job, in classes or by volunteering. Pam Lassiter's book, The New Job Security, is a good place to start, but we need to identify the key strategies for your special situation.
• Negotiating successfully for flex time, part-time, or working from home
  Some employers are more open to these important options than others. Help the waverers get to "yes" by making your case well, and showing them how it will work. Don't just ask. And pick the right time.
• Negotiating a termination or resignation and landing on your feet.
  You can learn to recognize the signs that you'll be terminated or downsized. Or perhaps one day you will feel so fed up that you'll resign. This is never a fun time, but it can be done better or done worse. We'll figure out, based on best practices, the ways you can negotiate the best severance, assure the best possible recommendation for future jobs, and leave with people thinking well of you.
• Exploring and deciding what additional training will help your career
  I've seen clients who expended lots of time and money on further education without careful analysis and planning — and then realized their new skills and training weren't right. Learn how to identify skill gaps between the career you have now and what you might want to be doing in five to ten years. Then we'll figure out how to get those skills (and some experience) most efficiently for the lowest cost — and most pleasure. You'll develop a tentative timeline of what to learn when, and how.
• Achieving new goals
  Things may be going fine for you, but you're the kind of person who wants to keep growing, and reach higher levels. I'll coach you to develop effective strategies for meeting your goals and achieving even more success.

Learn more about my approach to your career challenges.