Gold Nugget Coaching

You can super-charge your career like magic. Are you skeptical about that?

OK. Imagine that we’re together in your kitchen. What would you say if I told you I can make a glass of water rise up from the table, travel through the air, move across room, and be deposited into my hand, without spilling a drop, and without me budging an inch?

What do you have to say about that, really?

• “Impossible!”
• “Dr. Steve is incredible; he can do anything.” (only kidding)
• “Yeah sure! I can’t wait to see it happen.”

What is your reaction?

Take 10 to 20 seconds to think about it and then continue on.

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I was browsing the blogosphere tonight and came across a post on CareerHub that got me thinking about some things. I’d like to share some valuable coaching with you that can make an enormous difference in your career and in your life.

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Recently, almost simultaneously, two of my coaching clients had a similar kind of challenge arise. Both of them came up against middlesence career issues—where to go next in their well-established and successful careers. When you’re “stuck” in the middle of an issue like this, the way out often just looks like a nebulous blur. But with some work, the nebulous blur begins to take shape and a solution begins to form. Of course, in retrospect—after the problem is solved, we often realize that the answer was staring us in the face but we couldn’t see it. So how do you go from a “nebulous blur” to seeing a solid solution? One of the primary keys is by creating “distinctions.” Since distinctions are such a critical component to getting “unstuck,” I thought it would be valuable to spend some time here talking about them.

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Welcome to Part 5 of this six–part series on how to take better control of your life and career through the art of making powerful offers.

The previous parts of this series laid the groundwork for what we’re going to examine this week and then complete next week: designing real-world powerful offers that you can make, and optimizing your chances that the offers are accepted. 

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Welcome to Part 4 of this six–part series on how to take better control of your life and career through the art of making powerful offers.

In the previous parts, I showed how you can construct offers that connect to the needs and concerns of the people to whom you make your offers—the “listener.” Then I showed you how to practice beforehand so that you don’t shoot yourself in the foot.

This week, I want to talk about something that’s easy to overlook, but is a cornerstone of every successful professional’s career: trust. It’s easy to take this for granted. But there is a subtlety to trust and, if you don’t pay attention to it, you may find your career stalled, while you sit at your desk confused about why things aren’t going your way.

My point is simple: For your career to thrive, you have to be someone in whom others are willing to invest their trust. For your offers to be consistently accepted, you must have a reputation for being trustworthy. You might be thinking, Well that’s easy. I don’t rob banks, I pay my taxes on time, I don’t “borrow” supplies from the office. But are these the kinds of things people use to make assessments about whether or not you’re trustworthy? I say, not entirely.

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