Knowing Clients: Learning Who You Serve
Getting to know the client, from the first contact, through intake, and beyond the initial meetings, can generate a variety of thoughts...
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CDA Insights
- Jul 18
- 2 min
Freshen Up: New Job Search Presentations
Writing resumes and cover letters may be basic tasks to an experienced career professional. The repetitiveness of sharing common...
- Jun 19
- 2 min
Do You Hear What I Hear? Teaching Clients to Listen
Active listening skills are one of the fundamental counselor competencies that must be achieved for the work with the client to be...
- May 15
- 2 min
Defining Goals: Setting Intentional Directions
It is easy to identify synonyms for the word goal: ambition, intention, objective, target… It is more difficult to define individual...
- Mar 21
- 3 min
Be Quiet: Quitting and Firing Face Off
In the absence of intentional and mindful decisions regarding employment, many critical conversations are left unspoken. Supporting the...
- Feb 20
- 3 min
Values and Population Served: The Tenth Anniversary of CDA Insights
The 10th anniversary of CDA Insights could generate a desire to look back, however, that topic was already covered in the December 2021...
- Jan 16
- 2 min
Coaching and Performance: A Relationship Centered Approach
Clever sayings can guide a coach's approach to their work. The coach may aim to be a “guide on the side, not a sage on the stage.” Or a...
- Dec 19, 2022
- 3 min
Future Waves: Unlocking Relevant Development
Readers of CDA Insights can look at published issues and see all the topics covered over the years. In fact, the 10th anniversary of this...
- Nov 21, 2022
- 3 min
Hope: A Leadership Strategy
Despite the fact that hope is only four little letters, it is a very big word. The thesaurus lists over 40 synonyms for hope, including...
- Oct 17, 2022
- 3 min
Minds at Work: The Role of Social-Emotional Skills in the World of Work
Can all skills be taught? Who is the better teacher of soft skills: parents, schools, employers, friends? Which jobs require the most...
- Sep 19, 2022
- 3 min
Mid-Career Transitions: Evaluation of Commitment, Advancement and Relationships
With competency and identity issues addressed in earlier stages of adult development, those in mid-life (generally around ages 40-50)...
- Jun 20, 2022
- 3 min
Weighty Decisions: Multiple Factors and Choices
One client shares a worry over when to get a degree while family responsibilities and health care are significant time-drains. Another...
- May 16, 2022
- 2 min
Learning for Life: School's Not Out
While the real estate field focuses on location, location, location, the rest of the world professes education, education, education....
- Apr 19, 2022
- 2 min
Skills: Work in the Trades
Skills pays the bills. During the covid-19 shut-down, home improvement projects surged as people needed spaces to work and play at home....
- Mar 21, 2022
- 2 min
Worldwide Connections: Think Globally, Act Locally
Did you ever consider the fact that someone else is doing the same work as you, but in a different part of the world? When we narrow our...
- Feb 21, 2022
- 3 min
A Hybrid Work Model: Benefits and Challenges When Working Differently
Individuals and companies are benefiting from the massive transition occurring in work models. Study after study in the past two years...
- Jan 17, 2022
- 3 min
Salary, Pay, Wages – Oh, My! Earning in Today's Work World
An internet search on how to negotiate salary quickly pulls up all the usual articles and sources: “Words to Use When Negotiating...
- Dec 20, 2021
- 2 min
Don't Look Back! Letting Go of the Past
December is a good month to review the past year, assess and set goals, and... STOP! Don't look back! Just because all the television...
- Oct 18, 2021
- 2 min
Red Flags: Warnings of Pain and Change
In a matter of seconds, someone could be hurt because a red flag was overlooked. In those same few seconds, 74+M google results covering...
- Sep 20, 2021
- 2 min
Comparisons: Aim to Support Career Confidence
The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. Yet people still believe others have found more satisfaction, rewards, or...
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