Gold Nugget Coaching

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Even as they declare that career as an institution is dead (as described in the last posting), Fernando Flores, John Gray, and Professor Denning also talk about the good news: a more effective concept of career is emerging that involves life “styles.” It’s important and empowering for all CareerBuilders to be aware of these styles.

Why? Because these styles can help you to clarify your goals and to see new possibilities that are open to you. Then you can put search tools like careerbuilders.com and monster.com to work for you in the best possible ways to achieve your goals.

For example, when you take that “perfect job quiz” or look at the “100 top jobs” or the “top jobs in the US” available on those websites, you’ll be able to interpret the results and resources in ways that are truly valuable for you.

So what are these life styles? . . .

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Last time I showed you how to spot your “life-limiting negative self assessments that drag you down.” They are a form of self-sabotage that can get in the way of your career advancement, erode job satisfaction, deepen middlescence doldrums and, in fact, undermine every aspect of your life.

If you’re thinking, “That’s not me, I don’t do that.” Perhaps you don’t. But if that’s the case, you’d be defying the odds and about 3,000 years of evolution!

So let’s look at how you can deal with the potentially devastating effects of negative self assessments.

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Finally! A name for a largely unacknowledged, but very real, issue that many mid-career workers are currently in the throes of.

In fact, tens of millions of workers are “feeling burned-out, bottle-neck, and bored,” according to a breakthrough article in the March 2006 Harvard Business Review entitled “Managing Middlescence” by Robert Morison, Tamara Erickson, and Ken Dyctwald.  They coined the term middlescence (like “adolescence”) to characterize this newly recognized phenomenon. 

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Welcome to the sixth and final part of this series on how to take better control of your life and career through the art of making powerful offers.

With just a bit more work, you can bring forth an offer that makes sense to your listener. Even beyond making sense, you have the opportunity to craft an offer that is productive AND tempting to them.

So now let’s take this through the final steps  . . .

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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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