Useful Articles, Readings, and Such!

Career Development

• 3 Steps to Rate Every Job Offer - Apply the R.I.G.H.T. Job method to analyze and rate every job offer. (Published by TheLadders.com.)

• What Job Would Make You Happy? A visualization exercise to help you figure out where you should go next with your career (published by TheLadders.com.)

• 4 Ways to Manage Conflict in the Office - Some pretty good guidelines for resolving conflict when you’re the new guy (or gal) in the office (published by TheLadders.com).

• Job-Search Coping Strategies - In the event you're not making as much progress on your job-search as you'd like, this, from the Ask the Coach section of the GGCI Newsletter.

• 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 (published by TheLadders.com).

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

• 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 by The Ladders.com).

• The Three Phases (and Songs) of Success - A musical look at how we view success at different points in time (published by The Ladders.com).

• 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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• All articles written by Barry Zweibel for TheLadders - Must have a user account with TheLadders.com and be logged on.

• Other career resources at the GGCI E-Store.

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Coaching and Mentoring

• Management Excellence, Johnny Appleseed Style - Motivational Growth Seeds are what help employees learn and grow. But they likely won't germinate without the proper cultivation, as well.

• 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

• An Introduction to Life Coaching - An interview with Barry Zweibel about Life Coaching with Geoffrey Litwack.

• 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 ABCs of Good Employees…and Bad Bosses - Why "A-players hire A-players. B-players hire C-players" is misguided, at best, and downright inflammatory, at worst.

• 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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Networking

• Situational Shyness - On battling bashfulness.

• Career Strategist: How to Network Effectively - An interview with Barry Zweibel.

• On Becoming a Better Conversationalist - Annotated excerpts from Susan Roane's book, "How to Work a Room."

• Key Networking Skill: Saying Goodbye - Starting a networking conversation is one thing; ending one is something entirely different.

• 15 Networking Do's - a GottaGettaBlog entry.

• Smarter Networking: More Effective Follow-up - It's one thing to network; it's something entirely different to network effectively.

• How to Improve Your Networking Skills - Essential networking tips. Posted in The Technology Executives Review and again at QuestCareer.com.

• What's Your Membership Strategy? - How to maximize your networking by having a membership strategy for the organizations you belong to. Printed in the Northbrook Chamber of Commerce and Industry Business Perspective newsletter.

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Performance Management

• It’s “Nuts” Trying to Get Your Unmet Needs Met at Work - It really is. So here's how to get those unmet needs met elsewhere.

• 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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Life Skills

• The Botany of Self-Doubt - What to do when self-doubt strikes and how to manage it more effectively.

• In Search of More Skillful Living - How does one live a life where we *naturally* strive to align more closely to our core values, routinely seek continued personal and professional development, and more consistently aspire toward transcendence? Here are some ideas.

• Courageously Courageous -- A review of several presentations from the first ever Positive Psychology World Congress, including courage and sport, courage aided goal-directed action, and ways the military creates greater courage.

• New Years' Resolutions: They're Corny, but So What?! - Help this year, be THE year.

• The BIG THREE Limiters - Getting Past Getting Stuck.

• A Whiter Shade of Pale - How can 'black and white' thinkers inject a little color and creativity into their personal growth and development efforts without sacrificing their beliefs about how they think.

• Authentically Munch - A piece about Richard Belzer's SVU character and consider how we might better embrace who we already more readily to show up more completely in the world around us.

• More Better Creativity - How to F-R-E-E your mind to get those great ideas of yours a-flowin'.

• 119 Small Steps - Advice from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services for creating a healthier you.

• Burdened by Bad Habits - Ten Top Tips for getting over bad habits, and more.

• Long-Term Life Planning - The key ingredients needed to effectively P-L-A-N your long-term life plan.

• Is 2006 Getting off to a Good Start? - An easy and informative way to better align yourself with your key Life Factors.

• Real v. Inferred Commitments - The commitments people make and the ones we only think they make.

• Fixing the Broken Windows - Little changes make BIG differences,  especially with New Years resolutions. Published in The Ticker Magazine.

• New Year's Again? Re-Framing Resolutions So They Work. Posted as feature article in CoachVille's Coaching Scoop.

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