The most common way of dealing with uncertainty is to close our minds and limit our options and behaviors. The trouble is that the world and the people in it are uncertain, and our typical response to that risks us not exploring that world or ourselves. If you believe the world is flat and that ...
Shiftwork is the work we have to do to manage, thrive and survive in a world where shift happens. I've identified 11 shifts that we have to make (see here), so far I've addressed the first six, and in this post, I address the seventh shift. The earlier ones you can read by following these ...
Here are the slides of a paper given by Robert Pryor and myself at the Career Development Association of Australia International Conference, in Cairns, Qld, Australia, on April 27th 2011. It highlights the strengths, but also the limitations of the narrative approach. Narrative the untold story View more presentations from JimBright Career-Development.
Harmony: Finding Harmony in work: A strategy to re-soul your career In my earlier blog Resouling your career I defined harmony in the following terms: "Harmony is a joyful dance through and with life." Here I want to expand on some practical ideas for finding harmony in your career. In part prompted by Ed Colozzi's excellent ...
Coaching and Leading for the short-term and authenticity The short term gets a bad press. A short-term measure is frequently seen as superficial, a temporary band aid solution that fails to address the deeper underlying problem. This perspective fails to recognise the fact that the short term regularly turns out to be long term. The things ...
Five ways to resoul your career What is the point? Why am I doing this? Who cares? Does it matter? As Poehnell & Amundson (2011) point out "Many have questions about who they are and what they ought to be doing with their lives. Many struggle with personal and external issues that make it difficult for them to ...
Shiftwork is the work we have to do to manage, thrive and survive in a world where shift happens. I've identified 11 shifts that we have to make (see here), so far I've addressed the first five, and in this post, I address the sixth shift. The earlier ones you can read by following these ...
