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By Jane CranstonRecently published1 topic

Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats--SWOT

How do you predict the outcome of a behavior, project, or idea? A few days ago, an executive career-coaching client came to a session with an interesting PowerPoint presentation. It was a proposal to a potential employer. My client hoped the company would gain a better appreciation of his expertise and ability to transfer his skills to their industry sector as well as demonstrate a talent for addressing their specific challenges and opportunities. It was very effective. His outline was based on the SWOT template.

Primary topic: Executive Coach and Executive Coaching

Executive Coach and Executive Coaching

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By Jane CranstonRecently published1 topic

The 3Cs of Communication: Clear, Concise, and Correct

Bob Sheppard, the announcer for the New York Yankees, for more than almost six decades, applied three simple principles to his extraordinary delivery. Surely his beautiful baritone made him highly listenable and memorable; however, it was his discipline that made him a lifetime member of the team and a much loved part of the game for spectators. To become a good communicator Bob Sheppard believed you had to abide by three simple, but important, rules—be clear, concise, and correct.

Primary topic: Executive Coach and Executive Coaching

Executive Coach and Executive Coaching

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By Jane CranstonRecently published1 topic

Why am I Talking? Saying too Much at Work

I learned the W-A-I-T acronym in my graduate school training. I’ve always posted a small note on my wall, out of the client’s view, as a reminder. The letters stand for “Why Am I Talking?” Why do people talk too much in business situations? - They’re anxious. Maybe the gathering is about a difficult subject or has important leaders present. Most people don’t want to be the center of attention, yet they’re afraid they’ll be ignored or negated. So they talk and talk. This is the anxiety speaking and it often isn’t pretty or welcome.

Primary topic: Executive Coach and Executive Coaching

Executive Coach and Executive Coaching

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By Jane CranstonRecently published1 topic

Too Tough on Yourself and What to Do About It

A behavior common among very successful people is setting high standards for themselves as well as others. Whether the actions are going to be seen by friends or colleagues, or done strictly in private, doesn’t seem to matter, high achievers place the bar at the top rung for almost anything and everything.

Primary topic: Executive Coach and Executive Coaching

Executive Coach and Executive Coaching

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By Jane CranstonRecently published1 topic

The Blended Life (Better tha Balanced Life)

My last Competitive Edge Report article “Is the Key Still in Your Ignition?” hit a sweet cord with a number of you and sour note with others. I thought I’d continue the discussion this week by looking back as well as forward.

Primary topic: Executive Coach and Executive Coaching

Executive Coach and Executive Coaching

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By Jane CranstonRecently published1 topic

Extroverts in the Workplace

In contemporary psychological terms, “extrovert” is used to describe a individuals whose temperament type or preference directs and receives their energy from exte al sources. In the practical sense, they are action people who plug into others for their juice. They’re not generally drawn to reflection, they are “doers.” Talking things out is an extrovert’s way of understanding, solving problems, reducing stress, sharing, and communicating. I am less likely to say to myself, “what are they really thinking?” when working with an extrovert.

Primary topic: Executive Coach and Executive Coaching

Executive Coach and Executive Coaching

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By Jane CranstonRecently published1 topic

No Off-Season in the Workplace

I was walking in the Times Square area the other day when I spotted a person wearing a very graphic tee shirt. It read, “No such thing as off-season.” While I'm sure he was thinking NFL, NBA, or MLB, my wheels turned toward the workplace. I can't tell you how many times people have told me, “Let's wait ‘til after (name the holiday)” or “I can't network now, no one is in their offices.” As a person with a perch that must overlook the offices of thousands of people, I can tell you with certainty — people are at work.

Primary topic: Executive Coach and Executive Coaching

Executive Coach and Executive Coaching

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By Jane CranstonRecently published1 topic

Quick to Say “No”?

I’m standing on line at the supermarket behind a mother and her five year old son. Bored, tired, and cranky, the child wants out, as does the mother. The boy starts asking questions and for things. “No!” says the mother. “No” is the answer so many time that she is ahead of her son’s requests. Finally, in frustration she yells, “Don’t even bother asking me because the answer is going to be ‘no.’” We’ve all witnessed this type of scenario and probably are guilty of participation now and again. For some reason the scene stuck with me.

Primary topic: Executive Coach and Executive Coaching

Executive Coach and Executive Coaching

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By Jane CranstonRecently published1 topic

Networking Hurdles

I'm always surprised at how many of my executive career coaching clients are hesitant to contact former colleagues and supervisors when they need advice or information. I call these their “networking hurdles.” It seems particularly true when they’re looking for a job. Why is that? I gave it some thought and here’s what I came up with.

Primary topic: Executive Coach and Executive Coaching

Executive Coach and Executive Coaching

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By Jane CranstonRecently published1 topic

Manage Your Time to Fit the Challenge

Everyone is trying to manage time. When you hear them talk, you would think it could be manipulated -- stretched or duplicated. It isn’t possible and for those who think they can, it’s more of a game than a solution. Knowing there are but 24 hours in a day, the challenge becomes more about how we plan, schedule, and utilize our minutes than it does with attempting to find more.

Primary topic: Executive Coach and Executive Coaching

Executive Coach and Executive Coaching

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By Jane CranstonRecently published1 topic

Time vs. Things. What Makes You Happier?

In the Business section of the New York Times (August 8, 2010 ), the author, Stephanie Rosenbloom, wrote about people who had successfully downsized their lives, sometimes to a level many of us would deem extreme, particularly when it came to possessions. Whether by choice or circumstances, such as lay off or divorce, they own less, work less, and seem to be living happier lives.

Primary topic: Executive Coach and Executive Coaching

Executive Coach and Executive Coaching

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By Jane CranstonRecently published1 topic

Capable of Disruptive Ideas?

The other night I was watching an interview of two major players at Google Ventures. Google Ventures is the in-house “radical” venture group of the organization, the people who hunt for new ideas and people with ideas, and then invests time and skills with them with the hope of finding the next big thing.

Primary topic: Executive Coach and Executive Coaching

Executive Coach and Executive Coaching

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By Jane CranstonRecently published1 topic

Introverts in the Workplace: How They Operate; How They Succeed

In modern behavioral terms, “introvert” is used to describe individuals who are most comfortable in the inner life of the mind, come across as more reserved, and are less likely to seek numerous or large interactions. They represent approximately half of the population. In the workplace their presence is less obvious and misunderstood, though their ability to actively listen at a very deep level makes them major idea contributors. There’s risk in confusing their self-containment with a lack of ambition.

Primary topic: Executive Coach and Executive Coaching

Executive Coach and Executive Coaching

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By Jane CranstonRecently published1 topic

Executive Coaching -- What it is and Isn’t

One of things I love about being a coach is the variety of people and situations that come to my office or call on the phone. In no particular order here are some of the presenting challenges brought to coaching sessions. You will note—I fired no one.

Primary topic: Executive Coach and Executive Coaching

Executive Coach and Executive Coaching

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By Jane CranstonRecently published1 topic

Responding is Key to Your Success

It shouldn't surprise me anymore, but it does. When a potential coaching client contacts me, I often ask two questions, "How did you find me?" and "What made you interested?" Ninety percent of the time, the answer to the first question is "I Googled 'career coach.'" No surprise, I work hard to make it easy for people to find my business and me. It's the second answer that's shocking, "Well you were the only person who called back." What?

Primary topic: Executive Coach and Executive Coaching

Executive Coach and Executive Coaching

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By Jane CranstonRecently published1 topic

Other Ways to Communicate Besides E-Mail

Has someone IM’d you recently? I don’t mean someone down the street or in another region, I’m talking about the person sitting next to you. Is every “conversation” you have with your boss on e-mail? Gotten a text condolence note lately? (I did, no kidding, can’t say it was very consoling.) Have one-word answers been elevated from grunting to an acceptable reply? My favorite is the “yup” response to a 20-word question sent from an associate to a higher-ranking executive.

Primary topic: Executive Coach and Executive Coaching

Executive Coach and Executive Coaching

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By Jane CranstonRecently published1 topic

Learn from Success not Failure

You’ve heard people say again and again, “I learned more from my mistakes than my successes.” My reply is “I doubt it.” They’ll spend hours, days, and endless energy trying to correct (or worse defend) a mistake by analyzing and dissecting in post mortem, generally producing a patched up version of the mess they had. If you didn’t like model 101 what are the chances 201 will meet your needs any better? We see it in relationships all the time; people unsuccessfully date or hire the same type, over and over, hoping for something different and better. How often does that work out?

Primary topic: Executive Coach and Executive Coaching

Executive Coach and Executive Coaching

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By Jane CranstonRecently published1 topic

Should I Change Careers?

Many people are asking themselves this question. Whether it is because the industry you know has lost its purpose (CD anyone?), your lifestyle demands your increased presence (twins!), or you are unmotivated, disenchanted, burned-out, under-stimulated, or just can’t face looking at that guy in one more meeting, the thought of making a radical change probably has occurred to you.

Primary topic: Executive Coach and Executive Coaching

Executive Coach and Executive Coaching

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By Jane CranstonRecently published1 topic

Leadership Lessons Learned from My Father

No matter how much individuals like their jobs, they’re entitled to be paid. Years ago the company my father was an executive with was purchased in a hostile takeover. The new owners were unable to deliver the paychecks on payday. Their response was, “They’ll just have to wait ‘til Monday.” “My people can’t wait until Monday, they have kids to feed!” was my father’s angry response. He then took matters into his own hands. A town meeting of the 50 staff members was called.

Primary topic: Executive Coach and Executive Coaching

Executive Coach and Executive Coaching

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By Jane CranstonRecently published1 topic

Increase Effectiveness with Checklists

Atul Gawande is an accomplished scholar (Mac Arthur Fellow), a staff writer for The New Yorker, and a Harvard professor, in addition to being a well-respected surgeon. He is also an astute observer with a curious mind. In the world of surgery, infection kills more people than the operations. Gawande thought there must be a way to increase survival rates. He stumbled on the effectiveness of the checklist, not a to-do list, but a step-by step form that is brief and effective even under the most critical situations.

Primary topic: Executive Coach and Executive Coaching

Executive Coach and Executive Coaching

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By Jane CranstonRecently published1 topic

Winning Managers Compromise

There aren’t many people who could say their opponents shed a tear at their funeral; however, that is reportedly what happened at the services for the late Edward Kennedy. As with most current events, I found myself curious for the lesson(s) behind the story. While researching Kennedy’s workplace skills, I chose to read the words of politicians, journalists, and commentators who were clearly not in agreement with most of his views. What did they have to say?

Primary topic: Executive Coach and Executive Coaching

Executive Coach and Executive Coaching

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By Jane CranstonRecently published1 topic

Commitment to Diversity in the Workplace

Over past decades the issue of diversity has taken a very visible place in the growth and structuring of the workplace population. Whether it was caused by mandates or natural shifts in population, the job sites look quite different. The challenge, as I see it, is not only to continue to push for more diversity in the two major categories — gender and race/ethnicity — but also in less obvious areas such as education, energy, and temperament. It is these less noticeable areas where, I believe, the most opportunity and riches exists.

Primary topic: Executive Coach and Executive Coaching

Executive Coach and Executive Coaching

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By Jane CranstonRecently published1 topic

Balancing Your Life--Is Your Key Still in Your Ignition

Last week, while I was considering subjects for this article, I found myself thinking about a tip my daughter-in-law, Mary, gave me. Since she was trained by the military as a truck mechanic, I take her automotive advice seriously. Then, I had to laugh. I think this is the third Competitive Edge Report I’ve written where I talked about cars. It’s a bit bizarre, since I drive only about 1,000 miles a year and have had the same vehicle for more than a decade. Hmmm.

Primary topic: Executive Coach and Executive Coaching

Executive Coach and Executive Coaching

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By Jane CranstonRecently published1 topic

Are You Networking at 10 Percent

Conversations with a number of coaching clients have focused on the need to network and develop a networking strategy. While job seekers may not want to “get out there in a big way,” they generally appreciate the role that reconnecting and meeting new people plays in identifying positions and landing the job they want and deserve. When I stress a minimum of 50% (or somewhere around twenty hours) of their job search time needs to be spent networking, clients fall off their chairs but reluctantly do it. The ones who master the skills tend to reap the greatest benefits.

Primary topic: Executive Coach and Executive Coaching

Executive Coach and Executive Coaching

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By Jane CranstonRecently published1 topic

Is Your Best Employee About to Quit?

The job market in many parts of the United States and the world is shifting for the better. I have a number of clients and colleagues who are voluntarily choosing to make a move, often for more money and a better title. It should put all of us who work with and for others on constant alert. It always amazes me when people say they had “no idea” when a valued employee informs them they are leaving the organization. Here are some tried and true indicators. In the next issue I will discuss some potential rescue remedies.

Primary topic: Executive Coach and Executive Coaching

Executive Coach and Executive Coaching

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By Jane CranstonRecently published1 topic

Tips to Being a Better Boss

No matter what type of workplace you choose to operate in, you undoubtedly have to manage people. They might be direct reports, clients or customers, interns, freelancers, vendors, colleagues, and of course the often most challenging of all, your boss or business partner. Here are a few tips on how to manage behavior and time while reducing everyone’s stress and avoiding conflict: Article:

Primary topic: Executive Coach and Executive Coaching

Executive Coach and Executive Coaching

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By Jane CranstonRecently published1 topic

What Top Employees Complain About

I am fortunate to work as an executive coach with people at many levels, in different stages of their careers, and in a variety of industries. Even though there is significant variety and diversity in my client base, I am often struck how similar their thought processes and experiences are. This is particularly true when it comes to discontent. You’d think everyone would be complaining about wages, or lack of vacation time, the long hours, or the tight spaces in which they work — no.

Primary topic: Executive Coach and Executive Coaching

Executive Coach and Executive Coaching

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By Jane CranstonRecently published1 topic

Curb Anxiety -- How to Keep Calm and Carry On

The tone and stiff upper lip image the phrase “Keep Calm and Carry On” portrays tells a lot about its origins. It’s 1939 and Hitler’s forces are bombing England day and night. The government prints motivational posters telling the people “Keep Calm and Carry On.” And they did.

Primary topic: Executive Coach and Executive Coaching

Executive Coach and Executive Coaching

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By Jane CranstonRecently published1 topic

Encouraging and Making Progress

Do you have days when you feel like you’re getting nowhere or sense a project will never end? Worked on initiatives where you were only part of the solution and would never see the finished product? Wonder what happened to that suggestion that received such a positive reception and now seems to have disappeared? Join the crowd. So many of us are not privy to or given access to much of the work and decisions that are made in our workplace. What we also lack is any kind of regular feedback that would motivate, inform, and engage us to carry on.

Primary topic: Executive Coach and Executive Coaching

Executive Coach and Executive Coaching

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By Jane CranstonRecently published1 topic

So You Want to be a Leader

I hear it all the time from my coaching clients, “I want to get to the next level and in order to do that, I have to take on a leadership role.” “Really? And do you want to be a leader?” “I don’t know, seems like I have to if I want to get ahead.” This is a treacherous and potentially dangerous train of thought; one that could do more harm to a career than good. Why? Because, not everyone is cut out to be a leader intellectually, temperamentally, or with regard to energy and emotional strength.

Primary topic: Executive Coach and Executive Coaching

Executive Coach and Executive Coaching

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By Jane CranstonRecently published1 topic

What Do I Really Want and How Can I Find It?

I was working with an executive coaching client the other day developing a strategy for the next steps in her career. For reasons unclear to me, I thought our discussion was off course. Was I not asking the right questions? Not hearing the underlying comments or insights? Influencing her answers by showing some form of judgment or perspective? All were possible. The challenge was how to get to the meat of the issues. It dawned on me to make the problem visual.

Primary topic: Executive Coach and Executive Coaching

Executive Coach and Executive Coaching

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By Jane CranstonRecently published1 topic

Marketing Lessons Learned from a Yard Sale

I decided autumn was a great time to clean out the garage. Thought, while I was at it, to get rid of the things that had been replaced or whose time had come. The answer was clear—sell it at my first ever yard sale. Here’s what I learned and how I think we can all apply some of the lessons to other parts of our lives.

Primary topic: Executive Coach and Executive Coaching

Executive Coach and Executive Coaching

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By Jane CranstonRecently published1 topic

Creating Awe-inspiring Presentations like Steve Jobs

We all have attended presentations. I’m sure you will agree most were terrible – boring, redundant, and/or visually offensive. I am guilty of giving a few myself. You too? To improve my knowledge base and skills, I started studying the product launches of Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple, Inc. I then began listening and reading Carmine Gallo, columnist with Businessweek.com. Gallo teaches presentation skills to top executives. He is also a self-proclaimed expert on the techniques and genius of Steve Jobs.

Primary topic: Executive Coach and Executive Coaching

Executive Coach and Executive Coaching

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By Jane CranstonRecently published1 topic

Humanizing Your Work Place

The statistics speak. Most people spend more time at work than in any other activity; more than hours with their family, eating, sleeping, or interacting with friends. That said, wouldn’t it seem logical that we would spend an hour and some effort making our workspace as conducive to the job at hand and our temperament and personality? But no, we have the biggest and the best TVs, golf clubs, cars, whatever, while our office furniture, cubicle, office vehicle is less than pristine, barely functional, and probably downright ugly.

Primary topic: Executive Coach and Executive Coaching

Executive Coach and Executive Coaching

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By Jane CranstonRecently published1 topic

Raise the Bar -- Focus on Successes

The story tells of an interaction between a parent and his high school-age child. The adolescent presents with a report card of four As and one D-. Because of our prejudices and experiences, we the reader are inclined to think the parent is going to either lecture or at least focus on the low grade. We’re fooled. The father applies another strategy with an approach that I think is applicable to leading and managing others, and useful in our own self-management.

Primary topic: Executive Coach and Executive Coaching

Executive Coach and Executive Coaching

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By Jane CranstonRecently published1 topic

Building Trust at Work

I had a boss, I’ll call him, Ted. Ted was very political and used his high emotional intelligence to play all sides of every issue just to make sure he was always covered. I heard him lie by fact and omission. So clever was the man that when opinions were asked, he was able to shift positions 180 degrees before the final vote, especially if he saw the tide going against him. He bragged about accomplishments that were fantasy and made commitments he never intended to keep, while espousing values he violated on a regular basis.

Primary topic: Executive Coach and Executive Coaching

Executive Coach and Executive Coaching

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By Jane CranstonRecently published1 topic

Hire for Skill, Retain for Results, Fire for Chemistry

When working with managers and executives in a coaching relationship, I’m often struck as to how naïve some are to the realities of the day-to-day operating on the job and the politics of the workplace.

Primary topic: Executive Coach and Executive Coaching

Executive Coach and Executive Coaching

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By Jane CranstonRecently published1 topic

Love My Work Hate My Job

“Love my work, hate my job” is the lament of too many people. Since layoffs appear to have reduced in numbers and the workplace seems to be settling into the new normal, people have the luxury of contemplating whether they're happy in the workplace.

Primary topic: Executive Coach and Executive Coaching

Executive Coach and Executive Coaching

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By Jane CranstonRecently published1 topic

Are You the Boss to Work For?

First let me correct my title — I would prefer the phrasing, “Are you the boss people want to work with?” because “with” sends a message of partnership and collaboration rather the servitude. Let’s hope we’re past the later. I’ve spent most of my career(s), be it in a corporate environment, the not-for-profit arena, and as an entrepreneur, observing and aspiring to the behavior of people I saw as excellent leaders, managers, and supervisors, aka bosses. While they may have been different in their styles and skills, they had a number of things in common. They all were...

Primary topic: Executive Coach and Executive Coaching

Executive Coach and Executive Coaching

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By Jane CranstonRecently published1 topic

Are You Tone Deaf in Your Workplace?

Are you tone-deaf in your place of work? Do you miss cues when people make a snide remark? Or, are you dismissive, insensitive, or judgmental in tone with your verbal comments that would seem benign on paper but have real bite when said? Do you say things to people in a tone that would make them take offence, become defensive, or do you side step difficult conversations with remarks that are heavy in tone?

Primary topic: Executive Coach and Executive Coaching

Executive Coach and Executive Coaching

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By Jane CranstonRecently published1 topic

The Sorry State of Apologies

All of us make mistakes, say things we didn’t mean, forget, or are rude when we may not have intended to be. Experience has taught me most people don’t intentionally harm others but once they do, they’re reluctant, or find it difficult, to take responsibility for the damage.

Primary topic: Executive Coach and Executive Coaching

Executive Coach and Executive Coaching

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By Jane CranstonRecently published1 topic

The Sorry State of Apologies

All of us make mistakes, say things we didn’t mean, forget, or are rude when we may not have intended to be. Experience has taught me most people don’t intentionally harm others but once they do, they’re reluctant, or find it difficult, to take responsibility for the damage.

Primary topic: Executive Coach and Executive Coaching

Executive Coach and Executive Coaching

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By Jane CranstonRecently published1 topic

Finding Abundance in Tough Times

Times are tough. It is hard to avoid the challenges of the day whether it is your job, wallet, optimism or health that has been impacted. Earlier in the year I was redoing my kitchen. Clearing out twenty years of accumulation was a bigger task tha I expected. I was shocked at how much food I had amassed. I decided to take the challenge announcing we were “eating from the cupboard” for the next two weeks. It was truly amazing how many wonderful things we found and the new dishes created. Rather than feeling deprived or restricted it became a creative and delicious process.

Primary topic: Executive Coach and Executive Coaching

Executive Coach and Executive Coaching

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By Jane CranstonRecently published1 topic

Watch, Wait, and Imitate: What I Learned from a Person with Asperger’s

Diseases, disorders, and conditions seem to go in and out of public favor. Not so long ago everyone seemed to have dyslexia, and then it was ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity disorder). Charlie Sheehan put mania back on the radar. With the widespread success of the movie “Social Media,” “Does he have Asperger’s or doesn’t he” became a popular debate. Speculation by specialist in the field (true gamesmen) has thrown names like Gates, Einstein, Beethoven, Jefferson, Mozart, and yes, Mark Zuckerberg onto the “yes” list. Not bad company.

Primary topic: Executive Coach and Executive Coaching

Executive Coach and Executive Coaching

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By Jane CranstonRecently published1 topic

Must I Leave My Company to Advance My Career?

Too quickly, and too often the answer given to this question is “yes.” “Of course you have to move to get to the next level, make more money.” “Everyone knows home-growns are paid less.” True? Not necessarily, according to Monika Hamori, professor of Human Resource Management at the IE Business School in Madrid, Spain. In her July-August 2010 article for the Harvard Business Review, she discusses the myths and facts she deciphered in her eight years researching the global financial industry’s employment records using the data of a large international executive search firm.

Primary topic: Executive Coach and Executive Coaching

Executive Coach and Executive Coaching

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By Jane CranstonRecently published1 topic

Difficult Conversations – 3 Essential Steps to a Positive Outcome

No one likes having the difficult conversation whether it is in his or her personal life or at work. Unfortunately they often are essential. What makes the interaction scary is the unpredictability of the response and reaction of the receiver as well as your issues about the topic at hand.

Primary topic: Executive Coach and Executive Coaching

Executive Coach and Executive Coaching

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By Jane CranstonRecently published1 topic

Passed Over For A Job Promotion - 4 Career Management Steps Before You Quit Or Stay At A Job

You just heard the news - you were passed over for the big promotion. Now what should you do? Here are some simple steps that might ease the frustration, give you some insight and help you plan your next career move. Step 1 – Take a deep breath, assess the situation and ask yourself this dozen questions. 1) Did I really want the job or did I just think I should want it? 2) Were the decision makers aware of my aspirations? If not, why not? 3) What are their factors, within and beyond my control, which influenced the choice?r

Primary topic: Executive Coach and Executive Coaching

Executive Coach and Executive Coaching

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By Jane CranstonRecently published1 topic

Taking a Part-Time Vacation

Are you envious of people who can go on vacation and not give work, home, or other obligations a thought? I use to be but then decided it really wasn’t the right mindset for me.

Primary topic: Executive Coach and Executive Coaching

Executive Coach and Executive Coaching

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By Jane CranstonRecently published1 topic

Civility in the Workplace -- Four Ways to Achieve It

The word civility is surely not new to the language, yet it is not a term you hear spoken every day. It took a “shellacking,” a tea party, and a deadly shooting for a few people to step back and ask “is this really the way ‘we’ want to treat one another?” Of course, most of us, myself included, are quick to blame others before we monitor our own boorishness, but there is something that rings true, at this time, in this world, which says maybe there is a lesson to be learned. Since the workplace is often an arena for change, a microcosm of the bigger community, I would start there.

Primary topic: Executive Coach and Executive Coaching

Executive Coach and Executive Coaching

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By Jane CranstonRecently published1 topic

How to Get the Offer

I see it over and over again, a client goes on an interview, makes it past HR (in my book the highest hurdle), is sent up to meet the department head, onto the hiring manager with a stop by the top person, and then no offer. What happened? Ruling out the circumstances beyond your control, such as they were going to hire from within from the get go, a hiring freeze was put in place, or they chose not to fill the position, what can you do to make sure you get the offer, promotion, or key project?

Primary topic: Executive Coach and Executive Coaching

Executive Coach and Executive Coaching

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