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Career Development

• Succeed as a Workaholic - An aol.jobs.com interview with Barry Zweibel about what workaholics can teach us about getting ahead, without having to put in as many hours.

• Creating a Portfolio of Mentors - An innovative approach to establishing an entire network of mentors interested in your success.

• Help them Say Yes: Provide a 90-Day Plan - An innovative way to show them you're right for the job.

• Pivot Points -- a New Tool for Job Searchers - How to use those flashes of insight, called Pivot Points™, when we suddenly know what to do because we know it worked in the past -- when we were on the opposite side of the exact same (or strikingly similar) issue. Published in November 6th issue of The Ladders on-line newsletter.

• The Three Phases (and Songs) of Success - A musical look at how we view success at different points in time. Published in September 3rd issue of The Ladders on-line newsletter.

• How Well-Positioned ARE You? - Actively planning for and enabling what's next for you and your career.

• Your Work is a Mission-Critical System - Developing a new strategy for your career. Published in The Ticker Magazine.

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Coaching and Mentoring

• Bridges to Fulfillment - How Life Coaches Help Close Gaps Between Dreams and Reality.

• A Strategic Coach - Having a coach isn't just for executives. Here's how a coach makes sense for you. Published in the April 2005 issue of Training & Development magazine

• How to F.R.A.M.E. the Coaching Conversation - tips for new and aspiring coaches published in OD/Leadership Network News, a newsletter of the American Society of Training & Development.

• On Choosing A Coaching School - an open letter to aspiring coaches.

• Creating a Portfolio of Mentors - An innovative approach to establishing an entire network of mentors interested in your success.

• How to Let Your Coach Go Without Feeling Like a "Jerk" - posted by ACCPOW, the Association of Coaching & Consulting Professionals on the Web. (Previously posted at The Coaching Zone and by the Online Consultancy Network under the title of, "Are You Ready For a New Coach?")

• Testing the Feasibility of Coaching - an article for trainers about coaching published by the American Society for Training and Development.

• The F.O.C.U.S. of Business Coaching - What makes management coaching and mentoring work. Featured by the Online Consultancy Network.

• The Enduring Value of Being Coached - Insights from a management coach for those not yet coached. Posted at LifeTimeInfo.com.

• A 1st Timer's Look at the 6th Annual ICF Conference - Attention all life coaches. Posted by the International Coach Federation.

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Leadership Development

• The Dangerous Allure of Trust - Why manager's should NOT want their direct reports to trust them. << As featured in Building Employee Trust: A New Equation, edited by K. Sangeetha, ICFAI Press. >>

• Promoted? Now What? - The top do's and don'ts when being promoted to supervise your peers.

• Work Bytes! column - "...Our ultimate success - or lack thereof - is usually determined by just how willing others are to be our go-to people."

• Yes, No, Counteroffer - Finding the win/win in typical win/lose scenarios.

• On Building Trust, Rapport, and Respect - As a leader, your trustworthiness is continually put to the test - and it's a complex, heavily layered, test, too. Here's what you need to know to improve your score.

• Making More-Better Mistakes - Learning from our mistakes is key. Here's how to do that better.

• Hindsight is 20/20 - A life coach shows how to really benefit from looking for, and remembering to remember, those Lessons Learned along the way.

• Recognizing Platinum Opportunities - You've heard of the Golden Rule? Well this is based on the Platinum Rule and is imperative for effectively managing employees. Posted at InspirationLine.com.

• Being a Better Boss: Shifting Your Perspectives - Managing employees (read: being a better boss) simplified. Published by the Wall Street Technology Association in The Ticker Magazine. Also posted on the Online Consultancy Network.

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Performance Management

• Working with a Terrible Boss - Developing your abilities to engage in meaningful and relevant conversations with your boss will go long way toward improving relations – a key to making him/her a less-terrible boss for you.

• Helping Bosses Help - How to get your  boss do help you do a better job doing your job.

• Work Bytes! column - "...How often do you do your regular stuff in a 'world class' way'? When was the last time you did? More importantly, when will the next time be?"

• Strength-to-Strength: Improving Your Workplace Performance - The benefits of managing around your weaknesses and capitalizing on your strengths. Published in The Ticker Magazine.

• How's Your Two-Minute Drill? A look at how to get more done as a deadline approaches.

• Is Silence Really Golden? When might you be undermining your own performance by being too quiet?

• Effectively Managing Your Boss - Effectively managing the boss, simplified. Published in The Ticker Magazine.

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