Do you want to show up more creatively for your clients and your colleagues, your family, and your friends?
Do you want to default to thinking about opportunity versus focusing just on problems?
Discovering Hope is full of proactive steps you can take right now, to achieve a more positive mindset or to help maintain the positivity you already have
Getting Positive reveals that more optimism is close at hand
Better Q’s = Better Answers
Basic facts are must haves, but better questions demand thought, from interviewor and interviewee alike and ‘often’ lead to better understanding. Try:
Don’t ask her how much she wants to make, ask her how she wants to grow
Don’t ask him where he wants to work, ask him what he wants to experience
Don’t ask them about a typical day, clarify which skills they want to focus on using
Don’t ask me what I’m looking for. Ask me what a dream scenario might be.
#Betterquestions + #BasicFacts = #Cleardirection
The Strategist I’m Told to Identify
The ‘ideal’ strategist I’m typically asked to identify:
A true empath – so is equipped to understand/connect with colleagues, consumers and clients alike
A sense maker/connector of disparate ideas – culturally savvy
Openness – To all people and ways of thinking – is genuinely open-minded and so able to understand and incorporate the spectrum of perspectives.
#jobsearch #corestrength #employable
Where to Focus..
‘If you are depressed you are living in the past; If you’re anxious you’re living in the future; If you are at peace, you are living in the present.’ (Lao Tzu)
Or, there are times to reflect and to plan and the ‘present’ might not feel the best, but really, the present is the only time to live. #Live #Love #Inspire
Open Mind=Quantum Leap?
‘What we see depends mainly on what we look for.’ (Sir John Lubbock)
Or, this is a perfect time to clarify what you want and don’t want and to refocus. But, if you want to be informed and/or surprised, always have an open mind so that iterative progression may instead be a quantum leap.
Freelancing – Almost Fall, 2020
As we gallop toward the final third of 2020, there are more job opportunities for strategy planners but increasingly the work is freelance/flexi’/permalance. Where full time hiring is happening it’s more in healthcare, packaged goods, technology and online entertainment.
If you’ve lost your job, is immediately jumping in to freelance the right next step for you?
Freelance – Yes if:
Money – You need money to keep rolling in.
Sanity – You need to keep your mind engaged
Assessment – Because it provides the best way to assess your fit as part of a new potential full time employer.
Variety – You like a variety of work
Connections – You want to broaden industry exposure.
Flexibility – You want to work selectively.
Freelance – No if:
Security – Freelance work is by definition temporary and when an agency needs to cut back, freelancers lose out first.
Constant Hustle – Temporary work requires constant focus on ‘next.’
Loneliness – Freelance work is often in isolation.
Team Involvement – As a freelancer you don’t have the same level of team engagement.
Career Paralysis – Freelance can be a diversion from time needed to reflect or retool.
What To do Next ? –Â If you need cash you will default to freelance. If cash is not critical, take the time to reflect and evaluate how you want to grow/what you wish to experience next/whether your development best comes from paid work or non-vocational education. Happy to discuss with you.
Talk soon,Stuart
A few links of newsletters that your peers have enjoyed:
Career Adaptability – bit.ly/2QQGzLp
Impostor Syndrome – bit.ly/3k6P1D2
- A comprehensive guide to starting your freelance career
- Freelance v Permanent. What’s better for your career?
- Five things it pays to consider before going freelance.
- How to overcome the most common challengers as a freelancer.
- Nine work challenges only freelancers will understand.
- Pros and cons of working as a freelancer
- The ulimate guide to getting paid as a freelancer