I’ve been upgrading the logged-in experience here on the site to: better showcase the free resources available Set the stage for the now launching career development program upgrade client onboarding upgrade client experience when they’re accessing program materials and prepare the way for soon to arrive course and program products Here are the first changes. […]
In Tribute to my Dad; Four Career & Life Themes from an Old-School Banker
My Dad, David Christie, passed away peacefully on Sunday after a long but dignified journey with Alzheimer’s. Reflecting on his life and career, four themes occur to me that I think serve as valuable reminders for our professional and personal lives. My Dad started his career with the Royal Bank 3 days after completing high […]
The Three Components to Building Professional Reputation
Is your professional reputation something you can build or accidental and mostly out of your control? A key pillar of career development is reputation management. I thought I would try and de-construct professional reputation as a way of shedding light onto something we’re all aware of but don’t necessarily try and intentionally influence. Who Comes […]
Map Your Industry to Build Market Reputation
One of the valuable skills I learned during my years in the executive search industry was industry mapping. How Well Do You Know Your Industry? I would receive an assignment for let’s say a VP Logistics in a 3rd party supply chain company and over the course of a couple of weeks I would create […]
Career Development Goals? Take my Survey
When it comes to executives, managers and other senior professionals making proactive career development progress, what I see over and over is that work and life gets in the way of making consistent, intentional and proactive progress. So, the default becomes responding to the crisis. With that in mind, I’m shaping an annual program to […]
How to Ride a Career Wave – with 1 page PDF worksheet
Many professionals and executives have made a significant step in their career or even changed the trajectory of their career thanks to riding a wave. While it can happen accidentally, paying attention to your environment can significantly increase the likelihood of catching your next industry wave. Learn how to ride a career wave. What is […]
Resume Bullet Points – How Bullet-Point Worthy is Your Job?
Your professional value is communicated through your conversations, word-of-mouth, your work, and through what you write on your resume, cover letter, LinkedIn profile and other branding materials. For your written branding materials, resume bullet points are the sound bites, the encapsulation of what you’ve done. In one to three lines per bullet, your professional contributions […]
The question to ask when you’re not fully engaged at work
There’s a pattern to how we feel at the end of our workdays. It wasn’t too long ago when frustration consumed me. In that job, I was missing key ingredients important to me. How I felt impacted my marriage, my kids and my overall well-being. I worked on bringing some of these into my job, […]
Targeted Career Change Strategies
The prospect of making some form of career change is both exhilarating — and daunting. If you’ve decided to change careers — and you know exactly the new career you want to pursue — it’s important not to be stymied by the enormity of the challenges associated with the career-change process. So, how do you […]
Professional Strengths: What do you see that others don’t?
I can’t sing. I’d like to, but I am hopelessly off key. In the company of more musically gifted friends, it is glaringly obvious to them, and the more musical they are, the more uncomfortable it is for them to listen to me. They hear, or see something that I don’t. What do I mean […]
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