Conflict Management: Addressing the Inevitable
The outcome of any conflict should be a resolution leaning toward satisfaction and effectiveness, rather than distress or hostility. The...
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- Aug 21, 2023
- 3 min
Emotions: Achieving Health with Feelings
Emotions can be, well, an emotionally charged topic. Identifying, managing, engaging emotions may occur at any point in the counseling...
- May 15, 2023
- 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...
- 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...
- 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)...
- Jul 18, 2022
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- Apr 19, 2021
- 2 min
Dreams: Exploring Career Aspirations
As opposed to being fulfilled in sleep, career dreams or aspirations may reveal or influence career decisions or journeys. Practitioners...
- 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...
- Jun 15, 2020
- 2 min
Looking Forward: What is Your Attitude Toward the Future?
Here's another helpful message that showed up in my inbox: “When the light turns green, will you be ready?” It was the wake-up call I...
- Jun 17, 2019
- 2 min
Interviewing: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Truth about Meeting the Employer
While jokes about the craziest interview questions and answers abound, the reality is this meeting between an employer and a job seeker...
- Aug 20, 2018
- 2 min
Building Trust: The Bond that Must Be Earned
I was shocked to pull five of my counseling training books off the shelf and not find the word “trust” in the index. Happily, I found...
- May 21, 2018
- 2 min
The Career Summary: Living and Writing Roles
In the career development world, it is not enough to have lived a role successfully. It must be written about it if more successful roles...
- Nov 20, 2017
- 2 min
E-Coaching: Electronically Upping Your Skills and Services
Being online is easy – working online is a whole different story. It is definitely not as easy as putting up a webpage. Taking time for...
- Aug 21, 2017
- 3 min
Metaphorically Speaking: Using Language Tools to Convey Career-life Meaning
Does your client walk away from your sessions nonplussed? Do the vets you assist realize your compliment of “passing with flying colors”...
- Jul 18, 2016
- 2 min
Soft Skills and Leadership: Developing and Implementing Traits that Go Beyond the Task
Effective leaders do not take for granted soft skills. New workers may ignore discipline, empathy, and motivation as hardly more than a...
- Jun 20, 2016
- 2 min
Change Happens: Aim for a Blend of Introspect, Retrospect and Prospect
Some people prefer to perceive change with their own eyes, ears or other senses. Yet other people prefer to follow their intuition or gut...
- Mar 16, 2015
- 2 min
Ask Quality Questions
Whether you are a counselor, career development facilitator, employer, or job-seeker, if you are not asking quality questions, you are...
- Nov 17, 2014
- 2 min
Work and Mental Health
“Work” and “mental health” are connected, somewhat contradictory or polar opposites in some people’s minds. Any given day or hour that...
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