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By Mary Lee Gannon,Recently published1 topic

Overcoming Adversity is an Every Day Slice of Life

More than 200,000 people lost their jobs last month (August 2009) and unemployment is up to 9.7%. Nearly seven million jobs have been lost since the recession began in December of 2007. Is it just me or are we getting immune to hearing this information because it is repeatedly negative? The shock factor has passed. It is very sad to say that job loss trends are now so common that we expect the trend to continue. I am grateful that I have work and thank God everyday for that blessing.

Primary topic: Career Transition

Career Transition

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By Mary Lee Gannon,Recently published1 topic

The Right Rescue Dog for Me – Overcoming Disappointment

Last night my Shih-tzu and I went for the second night in a row to an animal shelter to visit with a very sweet Irish Setter Collie mix. We waited 45 minutes to visit with this beauty the night before and the shelter was ready to close when we got our turn. So after a brief visit, I was asked to bring Coco back for another visit the next night because there wasn’t time to process an adoption anyway. But, my heart was already captured by this charmer with one blue and one brown eye. She was great on the lead and not at all dominant with Coco.

Primary topic: Career Transition

Career Transition

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By Mary Lee Gannon,Recently published1 topic

Preoccupy Your Gremlin and Get “Unstuck”

Most people have hopes and dreams. Most people understand what it will take to get to those dreams. And most people at some point in their lives accept that they probably won’t get there and give up hope. Why? Because they can’t seem to get the issues that haunt them out of the way. The pain of first uncovering the demons, facing them and then knowing how to tame them seems impossible.

Primary topic: Career Transition

Career Transition

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By Mary Lee Gannon,Recently published1 topic

12 Steps to Lead a Killer Productive Meeting

How many times have you been to a meeting where everyone got their opinions out on the table but nothing was decided? Or how many recurring meetings have you sat through where you wished you could have been excused because even if you were to express an opinion, nothing would change? We’ve all been there. I’ve worked with managers who have planed for their direct reports to page them out of meetings. I’ve seen telephone conferences purposefully scheduled at the same time as a meetings.

Primary topic: Career Transition

Career Transition

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By Mary Lee Gannon,Recently published1 topic

Anxiety is Practicing Failure in Advance

Fear is a useful emotion that is self-preserving. Our intuition tells us to be afraid so that we may arm ourselves from harm. When you see a dog bearing its teeth your fear tells you to stay away. Anxiety is not fear. Anxiety is preparing for a perceived fear that is most likely emotional and not environmental. Anxiety never protected anyone from danger but indeed from doing all the important things that matter in life such as create, take risk, practice, produce, make good judgments and connect with people. Anxiety is practicing failure in advance.

Primary topic: Career Transition

Career Transition

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By Mary Lee Gannon,Recently published1 topic

Replace Head Trash with Positive Affirmations

I am a firm believe in “You are what you attract.” If you find that you continue to attract the same type of negative friends, unfulfilling relationships, drama, bad luck, negative energy, unrewarding career, bad health, poor physical image, etc, then I bet you are spending a lot of time telling yourself that you do. I have seen this over and over in many of my clients.

Primary topic: Career Transition

Career Transition

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By Mary Lee Gannon,Recently published1 topic

Time Versus Money – What Sells? What Empowers a Culture?

People have debated the issue of time versus money for centuries. Which one makes people happier? Knowing the answer as it relates to your employees and customers could make and save you hundreds of thousands of dollars. Of course happier employees make for happier customers. Happier customers will then purchase more of your products or services. The answer to the question of time versus money lies in your company’s culture as well as some proven data.

Primary topic: Career Transition

Career Transition

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By Mary Lee Gannon,Recently published1 topic

Know Which Glass is Yours and Take a Friend to Lunch

As you make changes in your life and grow, you will want to increase your circle of friends. A great way to do that is to take a friend, business associate, or mentor to lunch. You may be invited to a party, Chamber of Commerce or Rotary meeting or other business networking event that includes a meal. Either way you want to make sure you project the professional person that you are. Bad table manners are inexcusable in business and your personal life. They project a person that has not reached a sophisticated level of accomplishment.

Primary topic: Career Transition

Career Transition

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By Mary Lee Gannon,Recently published1 topic

Productive Culture = “No” to Short-Term Profits and “Yes” to Employees

The Wall Street journal CEO Council recently created a task force on what would restore confidence in business. The CEOs of Eastman Kodak, Verizon Communications, WPP Group and the Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School all agreed that the leading recommendation is for companies to focus less on shareholders benefits and short-term profits and more on the professional development of its workforce, its customers needs, and sustainability.

Primary topic: Career Transition

Career Transition

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By Mary Lee Gannon,Recently published1 topic

Transform Corporate Culture for an Increased Bottom Line

Corporate Culture is a harmony of people coming together for a common purpose – their communication with each other, how they manage their time and energy, the way they organize their work, and the way they are led. Leaders communicate values – the things that really matter to us, ideas and beliefs we hold special so that we may gain clarity and focus for consistent decision making.

Primary topic: Career Transition

Career Transition

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By Mary Lee Gannon,Recently published1 topic

Six Steps to Launch Your Project Over the Horizon

In business most ideas that never make it to completion die in the execution phase. Often this is because a simple plan was not in place from the beginning to insure that the pace of the project stays on track with the projected purpose and milestones. Below are six concrete steps that will help you define a project, evaluate if it is in alignment with your purpose and viable to succeed, define who needs to be involved and the risk at play, and what the measurable outcome will be. Six Steps to Project Management Success

Primary topic: Career Transition

Career Transition

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By Mary Lee Gannon,Recently published1 topic

Change - Here's How!

Nobody said change was easy. That's why most people don't do it. But there is a deeper reason as to why it is hard that if understood, will lead you to action that will bring you new habits and sustainable results. When you evolve and grow as a person you start with: 1) VALUES which create 2) ATTITUDES which create 3) BEHAVIORS. For example, when you were a young child you valued having friends, trusted all people and behaved openly.

Primary topic: Career Transition

Career Transition

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By Mary Lee Gannon,Recently published1 topic

Don’t Blow Your Cool - Make Better Decisions in Real Time

Leaders transform vision into reality by rallying their team around more than just a well articulated idea – by truly engaging them in the strategy to get there. Execution of the strategy is where most leaders and businesses fail because the variables that affect strategy are not static but dynamic – constantly fluctuating: barriers to entry, competition, personalities, scarcity of resources and more.

Primary topic: Career Transition

Career Transition

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By Mary Lee Gannon,Recently published1 topic

Are You Leading Your Life or an Actor in Your own Drama?

Well, the economy is getting worse. Every night when you turn on the news the lead story is about how bad the economy was today. Viewers could use information on how to make things better for themselves or examples of others who are triumphing during these hard times. But our brains are not wired to show the same level of interest in warm stories as they do in things that frighten us.

Primary topic: Career Transition

Career Transition

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By Mary Lee Gannon,Recently published1 topic

Seven Killer Ground Rules for Effective Meeting Facilitation

We’ve all been in meetings that are engaging and we’ve all been in meetings that were a dreadful waste of time. Most of the time the success of a meeting depends on the meeting facilitator. So if you are facilitating a meeting, be sure to do the behind the scenes work ahead of time so that the meetings will produce the outcomes that you want. Good facilitation of a meeting involves three key components: 1.) Analysis – Sometimes meeting facilitators jump to create a debate over issues of content before an appropriate process is in place.

Primary topic: Career Transition

Career Transition

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By Mary Lee Gannon,Recently published1 topic

Begin With The End In Mind And Sketch That Vision On Paper

Human nature tells you to plan from the beginning. I say start with the end in mind, draw what that will look like on paper and post your “Success Sketch” where you can see it every day. Stick men are acceptable! If you are changing jobs, don’t blindly answer classified ads and send out resumes. Begin by making sure you want to stay in the same profession. If not, then read up on career choices that interest you and in which you have transferable skills.

Primary topic: Career Transition

Career Transition

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By Mary Lee Gannon,Recently published1 topic

Best Careers for 2010 and How to Transfer to Them

U.S. News and World Report has released its list of the Best Careers for 2010. While unemployment hovers at around 10% and 16 million unemployed people face a paltry 2.5 million job openings each month the good news is that productivity is increasing. Productivity is measured by dividing output by hours worked. Does this mean that employers will not replace the jobs that were eliminated? Productivity allows more to be produced with less capital.

Primary topic: Career Transition

Career Transition

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By Mary Lee Gannon,Recently published1 topic

Millionaire Women Look Ahead

You might be surprised to learn the general profile of a millionaire woman. In the book “Millionaire Women Next Door,” Thomas J.

Primary topic: Career Transition

Career Transition

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By Mary Lee Gannon,Recently published1 topic

How to Kill Procrastination

Procrastination feeds a common human desire – Drama! Indeed procrastinating brings on undue stress and anxiety. But the thrill that comes from completing the task at the last minute brings a greater high than simply completing an otherwise mundane task on time. Anticipate the payoff first – then translate that feeling into the present instead of the future. Below are three ways to tame the procrastinator gremlin. Three Steps to Kill Procrastination 1) Where in my life am I bored and long for drama or excitement?r

Primary topic: Career Transition

Career Transition

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By Mary Lee Gannon,Recently published1 topic

Create Your Life Purpose from the “End of the List”

If you want to change some things in your life you have to change some things in your life. Start by changing the way you look at your challenges. Use creative thinking to make a long list of possible solutions to your challenges and then critical thinking to narrow down the most effective ideas. You can apply this to problem solving in business, defining your life purpose, finding love, team building around an issue and much more. The Life Purpose List that Rocks! Creative Thinking:r

Primary topic: Career Transition

Career Transition

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By Mary Lee Gannon,Recently published1 topic

Who Do I Get Motivated?

Recently I spoke to a group of wonderful women at Dress for Success in downtow Pittsburgh. They asked some very intelligent questions with a similar theme that I hear often from people going through a transition. “How do you get motivated when you just can’t seem to get going?” First understand that if you are going through any life transition whether it be death of a loved one, divorce, children moving away, or any number of challenges it is very difficult to expect great fulfillment in anything until you ground yourself with a sound foundation of beliefs.

Primary topic: Career Transition

Career Transition

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By Mary Lee Gannon,Recently published1 topic

Six Ways to Know if This is the Right Company for Me

In the book First Break All the Rules, authors Buckingham and Coffman summarized 80,000 interviews done by the Gallop Organization into what successful leaders and managers do differently. They understand that any organization’s best asset is its talent. What I see as a critical facet of this book is how you can translate this information into success for yourself as a potential employee or business owner. Gallop concluded that if an organization’s employees can answer “yes” to 12 key questions, the organization would attract, focus and keep the most talented people.

Primary topic: Career Transition

Career Transition

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By Mary Lee Gannon,Recently published1 topic

Killer Problem Solving for You or Your Team

Problem solving is often difficult whether the problem is yours alone or one that requires group consideration. If the problem is personal in nature, you may feel ‘stuck’ in moving forward. In working with groups of people either at work, in volunteer activities or in your own family it may seem impossible to generate fresh ideas or for a group to come to a consensus. Resources may be thin. Strong personalities may weigh with heavy influence. Personal agendas may come into play. Different constituents may have different goals.

Primary topic: Career Transition

Career Transition

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By Mary Lee Gannon,Recently published1 topic

Feel the Fear – How to Build Confidence

“Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.” ~ Dale Carnegie Self-confidence is a mindset whereby you are certain that you can tackle any challenge for a better outcome because you know how to go about it strategically. Notice this does not suggest that you will always get it right – nor that you will get their without consequence. But you know that you can handle the situation because you have the tools. So what are the tools? Simple.

Primary topic: Career Transition

Career Transition

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