It’s subtle and sneaky. It creeps up on you slowly so that you don’t even notice it’s happening. Somehow over the years, you’ve gone from having a plan for your career, to just turning up to work and ticking the boxes.
It’s undeniable there can be seasons in life where other things need to take priority, and career goals need to tread water for a bit. However when there’s choice, why not make one?
By Jane Lowder, Max Coaching
So goes a quote by Diane Ackerman, prize winning author and poet. A lot of people tell me they feel that they are passengers in their own career.
are comments I frequently hear.
Intelligent Career Management, the theme of this blog, is about being the pilot of your career rather than a passenger. In this Part II of the “This is not my Beautiful Job” post we explore the core and crucial step of making the shift from passenger to pilot. [Read more →]
Part I, by Jane Lowder, Max Coaching
The band Talking Heads wrote a song about that Alice-in-Wonderland-like feeling of waking up in a reality and wondering “How did I get here?” How many of us have had that very same thought in relation to our career?
“I’m 36 and I’m still doing [insert job].”
“I’ve been in [insert industry] for 10 years, and I don’t even enjoy it.”
“I’ve just done whatever came along without thinking about what I really want.”
Does this sound familiar? [Read more →]
Is Emotional Intelligence just hype, or another self-help fad? Are we talking about soft outcomes, or actual bottom line impact? A number of studies have been conducted to investigate this, and the results are startling!
In a recent article Cary Cherniss, Ph.D. lists a sample of 19 cases wherein high Emotional Intelligence has contributed to significant bottom line impact. [Read more →]
Made popular in 1996 by Daniel Goleman, the notion of emotional, or non–cognitive intelligence had been recognised as early as 1940 by psychologist David Weschler.
In 1990 Salovey and Mayer coined the term “Emotional Intelligence” and described it as “a form of social intelligence that involves the ability to monitor one’s own and others’ feelings and emotions, to discriminate among them, and to use this information to guide one’s thinking and action” (Salovey and Mayer, 1990). [Read more →]
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