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Having a Written Plan in Achieving Your Goals
A recent study at Dominican University compared different groups from various professions on their success in achieving certain goals. The degree of their success in achieving these goals (e.g., learning a new skill or increasing their income)… Read more
Business Coaching Is the Name of the Game
… IF YOUR EMPLOYER DOES NOT PROVIDE IT, GET IT ANYWAY Interestingly, more organizations are asking us to deliver Business and Leadership Coaching, as well as Employee Development Programs. An article in Workforce magazine says that, according… Read more
Thinking of Having Your Own Business? Start with The Seven Stories Exercise and Lots of Research
Fifteen percent of those who attend the Club start their own businesses. Many become consultants. For example, an actor who attended the Club became a presentation coach for senior executives. Some start growth businesses (such as a… Read more
Job Search, American Style
by Katherine Meeks, Five O’Clock Club Career Coach Americans have a unique approach to job search and career development, and people born abroad sometimes have trouble adjusting to it. So I’m going to offer seven insights into American thinking… Read more
Five O’Clock Club Coaches at Work in the Workplace: Helping Organizations Optimize and Retain Top Talent (Part I)
by David Madison, Ph.D., Director, The National Guild of Five O’Clock Club Career Coaches This is the first in a series of three articles on the broad topic of executive coaching and leadership development, based on interviews with senior Five… Read more
Starting Out on the Right Foot in Your New Job
by Kate Wendleton Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. William Jennings Bryan . . . be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love… Read more
Selling Your Value on the Job: How to Be a Winner
By Stacey Jerrold, Certified Five O’Clock Club Coach Have you ever felt stalled in your job? Perhaps you have been working at your company for a few years, getting good feedback and decent annual reviews…but you’re not getting ahead. You and… Read more
Understanding Organizational Culture
by Anita Attridge Five O’Clock Club Career Coach Joining a new company can be like moving to a foreign country. You will encounter new customs, dress, language, ideas and rules, and you will need to learn about all of these in order to do… Read more
Your Boss and Your Career
by Dwight Clarke, Five O’Clock Club Career Coach, with David Madison What kind of grade will you give to your career on the day you get the gold watch? Of course, nobody actually gets a gold watch anymore—it’s become a metaphor and a cliché… Read more
Promotability Index
When Is It Time to Move On? People say: “I’ve been at my current job six years. I’m killing myself, but I wonder when, if ever, I’ll be promoted.” How can a person tell? And in this job market, employees are sometimes deciding to move out… Read more
How To Stay On The Cutting Edge
The job market has changed considerably in the last five years. As the economy improves more jobs are becoming available, more businesses are hiring and workers can prepare to trade up or change careers for the first time since the millennium. A… Read more
Isn’t It Time You Got Yourself a Career Coach?
by Aurora Brito, certified Five O’Clock Club Career Coach As a career coach in private practice, I am often asked what it is exactly that I do. If you are reading this magazine you probably have a better understanding of the role of a career… Read more
Job-Search Stress
Who has it, and how they control it. -Survey of job hunters reveals surprising reslults W ith last fall’s terrorist attacks, a recession and massive corporate scandals, a common denominator among people facing the challenge of finding a new job… Read more
Working with a Career Coach.
by Kate Wendleton Here’s the lowdown on how these “guidance counselors for the working world” can help you reach professional highs. When I was looking for some professional guidance back in 1978, finding a career coach was like looking… Read more
Working with a Career Coach
by Kate Wendleton The world has changed. When I was looking for a career coach—back in 1978—there were very few. The company I was working for went through five downsizing’s! Even then I couldn’t get career coaching, so I started The Five… Read more
50,000 mile Career Check Up
See a Counselor Once a Year To Guide Your Career Some people, like Tom Lewis featured in our cover story, make propitious moves early in their careers. But many people fall into the wrong career at the outset. Young people think that they’ll find… Read more
Maintaining Focus: how top executives do it.
Successful people commonly work in demanding, highly paced environments. Big budgets, quarterly goals, large staffs, complex projects-all must be handled in an atmosphere of increasing competition and incessant input from phone, fax and email. Many… Read more
How to Handle the Telephone: A Life Skill
During the course of a normal business day, you probably talk by phone to most of the people you talk to at all. And you are probably not conscious of the number of times you have called people you are trying to contact. If they’re not in, you try… Read more
No More Sweaty Palms: You Can Tame Performance Anxiety
by Richard Rabkin, M.D. You’re standing at the podium, about to present the pitch that will determine whether your company gets the client–and may decide whether you keep your job. Your fingers won’t stop drumming and fidgeting, and you feel a… Read more
Coping with Success: Managing Energy Gone Awry
by Marilyn Puder-York, PhD As a clinical psychologist who counsels successful executives, I regularly encounter clients whom I call “high energy.” These people are stars: Exceptionally bright and creative, they are most often leaders, heads of… Read more
Seven Things to Remember When Making a Presentation
by Gary Stine Public Speaking. It’s almost everybody’s No. 1 fear, exceeding the fear of accidental death or dismemberment. Still, there’s probably no better way to establish yourself as an expert or to gain visibility in an organization. You set… Read more
How Society Affects Spirit, Performance and Success: Why Affirmative Action Has Not Outlived Its Usefulness
Why Affirmative Action Has Not Outlived Its Usefulness by Deborah Brown Perhaps the greatest misconception about affirmative action is that it is a preference program. Affirmative action has never meant giving unqualified individuals access to… Read more
Power Dining–and You Are the Guest: Bring Grace and Good Manners to the Business Meal
Bring Grace and Good Manners to the Business Meal by Ronna Archbold The world was my oyster, till I used the wrong fork. Oscar Wilde In today’s competitive business market, using the “right fork”–practicing appropriate table manners and dining… Read more
Planning for Career Success: Those Who Plan Do Better; Here’s How
See, it’s like a game of cards and if you think the game is worthwhile, then you just play the hand you’re dealt. Sometimes you get a lot of face cards, sometimes you don’t. But I think the game’s worthwhile. I really do. Christopher Reeve, former… Read more
Yes, Breaking Up Is Hard to Do. But You Can Fire People in a Humane Manner
By Liz Branstead Picture this: After seven years of loyal service to your company, you arrive at work one Monday morning to find you have been locked out of your office. Your supervisor informs you that you have been let go. A uniformed guard… Read more