Purpose: Everyday Living Made Clear
Do you help your clients reflect on the purpose of their career? Do you reflect on your own sense of purpose in your daily work? The...
CDA Insights
- Jul 18
- 3 min
Creative Tools: Interventions that Aid Goal Attainment
After acknowledging the value of tradition, the 21st century career counselor focuses attention on creativity so as to serve clients...
- Jun 20
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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...
- Nov 15, 2021
- 2 min
Executive Challenges Today: Help is Needed at the “Hire” Levels
It is easy to generate questions surrounding the challenges faced by executives today. For example, are “teamwork” and “executives” an...
- 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...
- Jul 19, 2021
- 2 min
Beneficial Reviews: Learning by Looking at Self
Whether a review is about personal performance or the quality of a product, its only as good as the time put into creating it. The...
- Jun 21, 2021
- 2 min
Set Up for Success: Strong Attributes for the Future
While “be prepared” may be known as a boy scout motto, it also fits some personality types (e.g. SJ's in Myers-Briggs type language)....
- May 17, 2021
- 3 min
A Day in the Life: What is the Real World?
“Welcome to the real world” is an often used phrase shared with new graduates. It is somewhat false because it implies that students were...
- Mar 15, 2021
- 2 min
Team Work: Factors that Lead to a Better World
The more distanced the world became in 2020, the more the desire for connectedness increased. Workers knew intuitively that they needed...
- Feb 15, 2021
- 3 min
“Her-Storical” Perspective: Gender Issues in the Work World Today
The need to broaden and deepen our understanding of visionary women, gender bias, and career development cannot be limited to one month,...
- Jan 18, 2021
- 2 min
Growth and Opportunity: Which Comes First?
What do people think of when they hear the word “opportunity”? Maybe they wonder how to create... or take advantage of... or seek... or...
- Dec 21, 2020
- 2 min
The Present: Focusing on What Is Needed Right Now
No one wants to spend the last few days of 2020 looking back at a year that was fraught with fear, change and challenges. Looking to 2021...
- Nov 16, 2020
- 2 min
Optimism: Being an Intentionally Positive and Unconventional Leader
While no one would argue that 2020 made it difficult for even optimists to feel positive, one role of the career professional is to...