3 Career & Life Strategies from George Bailey

It’s a Wonderful Life is one of the most popular holiday movies and my #1 favorite movie. I’ve not missed watching it over the holiday season in the last 25 years. For me, it’s cathartic, as I’ve always seen it as indicative of the ebbs and flows, highs and lows of life, and probably you, like…

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Learning Agility: The Leadership Key to Navigating Permanent Whitewater

By Dr. Carl Fowles, SPHR, PCC
In our current VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous) world many organizations struggle to find the right combination of capabilities to manage change and continue to thrive. The intentional and unintentional disruptions in organizations become, as Peter Vaill introduced, the metaphorical “permanent whitewater.”

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Growing Your Career with The Help of a Sponsor: Part 2

Jeanne Schulze, MA, Senior Executive Coach As the summer heats up, so do the challenges facing organizations on local, country, and global levels. The uncertainty of a possible recession, staffing up or down, and employee decisions to stay or go make navigating career growth challenging. While we cannot control the future, we can control our…

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Growing Your Career with The Help of a Sponsor

Jeanne Schulze, MA, Senior Executive Coach For the past 18 months, job seekers have experienced a world filled with multiple opportunities to leave their employers and sign on to something bigger and better. The ratio of offers to job seeker is 3:1. We know this as the Great Resignation. However, this phenomenon is beginning to…

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What Kind of “Stonecutter” Are You?

In these sometimes crazy — and far too often, disturbing — times the meaning and purpose of our work (and life) has become more important than ever before. Businesses are reinventing themselves. For many, individual and family priorities, goals and aspirations have shifted. It all begs us to look within and question our purpose, mission…

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True Tales From The Recchion & Associates Files

Are you baffled by executive coaching? Is it like therapy? How is it different from mentoring? How do I know if I need a coach? How long does coaching take? And of course… Does it work? These are some of the questions prospective clients often ask us. To help answer these questions, we invite you to…

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A Mantra For Job Seekers During This Unprecedented Time – TRUST

It’s in times like these, as we search to navigate through unprecedented work/life changes, uncertainty and fear, that I’m prompted to look back and reflect on those past challenges I’ve overcome. There’s power in our own story, knowing that we’ve done it before and can do it again. Digging deep, persevering, overcoming and beating the…

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A Mantra For Job Seekers During This Unprecedented Time – BELIEVE

Last time, we discussed TRUST, the first part of the TRUST, BELIEVE, DO mantra. To review… Even in the most difficult of times, like now when you may be scared and feel like retreating and hiding, these words can take your career and job search campaign to the next level and to success. Now, let’s…

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A Mantra For Job Seekers During This Unprecedented Time – DO

In our last two posts, we reviewed TRUST and BELIEVE, two elements of the TRUST, BELIEVE, DO mantra that is so critical to position yourself for success in your job search. Now it’s time to act. To DO. DO As with anything in our work and life, we have to act, DO. All of the…

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Honestly, Do You Know What Truly Drives You?

When was the last time you asked yourself what propels you to do the things you do? If you’re like most people, you probably haven’t thought about it much, or perhaps ever. It’s a scary, daunting question that demands deep self-analysis. But guess what? We have something of a ‘hack’ to guide you towards the…

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We’re wired for change so why does it freak us out so much?

Change… dealing with it, managing it, being more aware of everything that’s changing around us and then recognizing how we’re reacting and responding to the changes in our work and life.  Seems like a lot to ask of ourselves, especially now. It’s a lot of work! And it’s exhausting. But (and you knew the ‘but’…

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Embrace Change and Transform Loss into Opportunity

This article is a follow-up to “We’re Wired for Change So Why Does it Freak Us Out So Much?” We recommend you read that article first which delves into our different responses to change. Essentially, for some of us, our cup is half full, and for others it’s half empty. Why is that? Why do…

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Five Steps to Building Your Personal Brand

I’m sitting here writing this in my Nike jogging pants and Nike t-shirt, socks and tennis shoes. I’ve got that Nike “swoosh” all over me. It’s crazy how we consciously and subconsciously surround ourselves with trusted brands. Social media has catapulted celebrity brands (hello, Gwyneth and the Kardashians!). But branding is not just for the…

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Inspiration in Times of Adversity

Much of my coaching and training work over the years can be summarized in a couple of words: “psychology” and “relationships.” I’m over simplifying it, but I’ve seen lives change and careers skyrocket based on one’s predominant thoughts; i.e., psychology, confidence and inspiration, and the strength of one’s relationships — how we relate to others…

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