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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.)

• Building Resilience Between Jobs

  • Two methods to improve your habits and your outlook when you need it most - when you’re searching for a job. (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.)

• 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 career development articles written by Barry Zweibel and published by TheLadders.com. 

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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. Republished in Building Employee Trust: A New Equation, 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! post.

• 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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Conflict Management

• AVOIDING Conflict is NOT the Goal

  • Being able to engage naturally, easily, respectfully, and constructively in the midst of a conflict is something we all can learn – and is something that can serve us all well, once learned. That we can then help others improve their own conflict competencies raises everyone’s game, and makes conflict something far less daunting and distressing for everyone, as well.

• 4 Ways to Manage Conflict in the Office

  • Guidelines for resolving conflict when you’re the new guy (or gal) in the office (published by TheLadders.com).

• “What are some ways to deliver effective performance reviews?”

  • A BZ q&a interview

• Dissent and Other Keys to Success

  • Having an official dissent role in your organization might unlock some truly superb ideas. And in these worst of times, superb ideas are exactly what’s needed, are they not?!

• Conflict Trigger Mitigation and Avoidance

  • If you and someone – or someone and someone else you know – are in seemingly constant conflict with each other, there very well might be something we can all do about it to make things better.

• Real v. Inferred Commitments

  • The commitments people make and the ones we only think they make.

• The REAL Reason People Won't Change

  • When people resist change, it’s not necessarily because they’re opposed to it. It’s not even necessarily because they’re lazy or inattentive to it, either. Rather, it’s because they have one or more hidden beliefs that directly conflict with them working toward meaningful change.

• The Botany of Self-Doubt

  • What to do when self-doubt strikes and how to manage it more effectively.

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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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