Top notch career managers and networkers have a giving nature. Below are some quotes showing what generally everyone longs for and how you as a career manager and networker can give.

There are high spots in all of our lives
and most of them have come about through
encouragement from someone else.
I don’t care how great, how famous or
successful a man or woman may be,
each hungers for applause. ~George M. Adams

People are not motivated by failure; they are motivated by achievement and recognition. ~F. Fournies

Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying: Make me feel important. ~Mary Kay Ash

I can live for two months on one good compliment. ~Mark Twain

These quotes come from Leadership Lessons by Eric Harvey & Steve Ventura. As I was reading some of the quotes, I thought they were great for those seeking to ‘up’ their career management and networking.

I would like to hear your thoughts. If you’d like to share them, email me.

Enjoy Monday morning as much as Friday afternoon!

I know that vacation or time off is so good for all of us, including myself. I really enjoy my work as a Career Coach. I find that working with so many interesting people motivates me to continue working with them and not take a week day off. Now, Sundays are a different story. Each Sunday is a day of rest for me. Even though I have this pattern of rest ingrained in me for years, there are Sundays I would like to throw out my ‘day of rest’ conviction since I’d like to work with my clients.

In order to have balance in life, I know I need to take days off. So, the next two days I will be not going in my office and writing blogs. I’ve been told my blogs are helpful. They’re not only helpful to others, they’re a motivation to me to keep learning.

Revive in Mirriam’s Dictionary is defined as:

: to return to consciousness or life : become active or flourishing again transitive verb 1 : to restore to consciousness or life 2 : to restore from a depressed, inactive, or unused state : bring back 3 : to renew in the mind or memory

I would say for me I am looking forward to this vacation as reviving me (#3) in my mind and memory although I’m not feeling a great need to be revived-just a little. I’ll probably find out how much I really needed to be revived after 4 days of rest. Next week some of you may be bold enough to share how clearer you see the working of my mind and memory.

After I get back, I’ll let you know how I was renewed in mind and memory (at least from my perspective)! Email me how you find time off or vacations to renew your mind and memory!

Enjoy Monday morning as much as Friday afternoon!

We can get so caught up in moving up the ladder, pleasing our boss or peers, etc. that we reach a point where we know we don’t enjoy what we do anymore. Robert S. Kaplan wrote for the Harvard Business Review an article that resonates with my passions titled, “Reaching Your Potential.”

Robert has a terrific, I think, quote from himself at the top of the article, “Fulfillment doesn’t come from clearing hurdles others set for you; it comes from clearing those you set for yourself.” In reflection and ‘in writing’ what I am thinking, he is saying that satisfaction and energy doesn’t come from meeting expectations other set for us. Rather, fulfillment, energy and pleasure comes from meeting goals I have set for myself. I love contemplating on this thought.

Definitely there are times at work my boss sets goals for me, but really they become my goals because I enjoy what I do at work and want to offer the most I can for the organization.

So, the question comes to my mind. What is it that I really enjoy and what kinds of goals do I want to set for myself? I want to set some time to journal on this question. The other question Robert brings up that I want to think on is, ‘What goals have others set for me that I am spending time trying to reach?’ I’ve been taking a minute to think of the answer while I type this and I really can’t think of any goals I am trying to meet just because someone else has set a goal for me. Rather, the goals I am trying to meet are there because I’ve set them there.

I do think, though, that I need to take the time again (actually I enjoy doing this frequently) what it is I really enjoy doing and what kinds of goals are already in place and what kinds of new goals do I want to set in place for myself to reach? I really believe we are all uniquely gifted with passions and core strengths and the more we can use those for benefiting others, the more full of joy I will be.

So, I am curious. What kinds of goals are you trying to meet? Are they goals others have set for you or are they goals you have set and that you are enjoying the process of meeting? I’d love to hear from you! Please email me-I won’t share your questions or answers unless you post it yourself on this blog.

Enjoy Monday morning as much as Friday afternoon!

If you’re not yet on LinkedIn, you need to be. Whatever the reason is for not being on LinkedIn, there is a 99% chance there is a better reason for using it!

When you google your name, what comes up? Can you imagine googling a company and not finding anything on it?

If you’d like a hiring manager to see others’ untampered recommendation of your services, LinkedIn is a tool you must use!

What are reasons people use for not being on LinkedIn?

• I don’t want to be contacted. The day is most likely coming when you will want to be googled and contacted by a hiring manager interested in offering you a position.

• I don’t want to ask others for recommendations of my services. Actually, what I have found for my clients and myself is that most people are glad to recommend our services if they see we have given them value.

Imagine being googled and people being impressed with you because of what others have said about you on your LinkedIn profile. People have actually been contacted and eventually hired because of LinkedIn!

• I’m too busy. The time to build your network is when you are busy since that is a time when you have the most opportunity to find people to recommend your service!

I offer a session on how to set up LinkedIn. If you’re interested, contact me at Terri@SummitViewCareerCoaching.com. Or, if you would like to see other career coaching services, go to Summit View Career Coaching. I’d be glad to meet with you for a complimentary, confidential 20-minute coaching session.

Enjoy Monday morning as much as Friday afternoon!

Career coach Randy Block shared an interesting tip in NETSHARE’s call this week. Randy believes every job seeker should create a Master Résumé. This document is not for distribution to anyone but it is an organizational tool and source for when you do need to create a résumé. Randy receives the credit for a lot of the bulleted items below.

What could be included in your Master Résumé?

• Core strengths & how you’re using them (how to write success stories)
• Name of company
• Position
• Promotions (if to management, how many are direct reports)
• Awards
• Certificates
• Conventions
• Seminars
• Volunteer roles

Include dates. One of the comments I receive from my clients is that they wish they had kept up their résumé. I really like Randy’s idea of keeping up a Master Résumé.

Packages are offered on résumé & cover letter expertise, career exploration, job search strategy, effective communication, strengths identification, career branding, networking, interview preparation and jump-starting a new position.

To schedule a 20-minute complimentary, confidential session, contact me at Terri@SummitViewCareerCoaching.com. No pressure given to sign up for coaching. For information on my services, go to Summit View Career Coaching.

Enjoy Monday morning as much as Friday afternoon!

Jason Alba of JibberJobber warned all of hose who read his blog the importance of backing up their LinkedIn profile and database. It took me 2 minutes at the most to follow Jason’s instructions. Read in Jason’s blog about Susan Ireland’s true story of how her LinkedIn information was apparently deleted on mistake.

As my clients know, I am a huge proponent of using LinkedIn for social networking! It is an incredibly valuable tool for the career transitioner and career manager. So, I encourage all of you to take a couple minutes right now to go to Jason’s blog and follow the instructions he gives!

I would enjoy hearing your questions, thoughts or suggestions for further blogs! You can reach me at Terri@SummitViewCareerCoaching.com.

I am passionate about you enjoying Monday morning as much as Friday afternoon.

Every one of my clients so far has shared some fear when moving towards a goal. Fears block us from going forward. The opposite of fear is faith, hope, confidence… All of us have the potential to move from fear to a confident and positive perspective.

Read the following quotes from Dan Miller (48 Days):

Fear is the highest fence. – Dudley Nichols

The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety. — Henry Louise Menken

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly. – Coleridge

You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith. – Mary Manin Morrissey

Fear is faith that it won’t work out. – Sister Mary Tricky

If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality and makes him a landlord to a ghost. – Lloyd Douglas

Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right. – Henry Ford

You can’t discover new oceans unless you have the courage to leave the shore. – Anonymous

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses courage loses all. – Cervantes

Don’t fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have. – Louis E. Boone

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be. – Lactantius

The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears. – A. C. Benson

I’d enjoy reading your thoughts after you’ve read these quotes. You can contact me at Terri@SummitViewCareerCoaching.com.

I’m passionate about you enjoying Monday morning as much as Friday morning! Contact me for a 20-minute complimentary coaching session. To read more about my services, go to Summit View Career Coaching.