Step Out. Step Up.
Lose your job and you’re in a sea of choices – find a new one, take a sabbatical, go back to school. At some point, you’ll have to incorporate this time into your resume. What will you say?
11/08-11/09 Wanderer
11/08-11/09 Professional Period of Tumultuous Change
11.08-11/09 Manager of My Own Personal Loss
Say this transition time is a [...]
The sabbatical trend keeps growing. We know that because at yourSABBATICAL our list of organizations offering sabbaticals (see Companies on a Quest) keeps growing.
But if you don’t work for one of those companies, you may be on your own with the work-life balance problem. Perhaps you can make it happen by participating every year [...]
Underneath everything – the daily headlines of massive layoffs and bank failures, the squawking of bad news, and your unopened 40l(k) statements – there’s an internal dialogue of worry.
Not the worry that this Plan A you are living will be over. You’re pretty sure it will be.
The static in your head is because you screwed up.
See, [...]
“Indeed, as I look back at the adventurous young woman who left banking to pursue a life focused on a more global, connected vision, I see someone with guts, education, and skills, but also someone who had to learn time and again that those factors alone don’t always lead to success.” – Jacqueline Novogratz, author [...]
Here’s the sabbatical mindset – you live the life you want AND work during every phase of it. Rather than swapping a career for a personal life, both co-exist year in and year out until St. Peter blows his bugle.
The idea that people dispose of their careers after 40 years of plugging away to go play [...]
In the last two blogs we set the stage for two big ideas, pursuing a sabbatical strategy and establishing the Connected Leader in yourself through life’s learnings – and how these two ideas pair up nicely – like Dancing with the Stars. Sorry. I couldn’t resist. This is the TV show swirling and glittering on [...]
The new feeling is s-l-o-w. It’s certainly not positive when it comes to the economy, but other than that, perhaps your work life and life in general are not currently moving as fast as they once were.
Do you like slow? Or do you miss fast? How comfortable are you with slow? Is too much slow [...]
In one of my recent coaching sessions, I had the opportunity to facilitate one of those “breakthrough” moments where my client pulled together a cohesive Career Brand Statement: a specific milestone I establish for my coaching clients for career navigation work. The shift in thinking is this – moving from identifying yourself from resume bullets [...]
While some organizations excitedly complete the final design of their first Sabbatical Program, McDonald’s could literally yawn. Their sabbatical program is more than 40 years old.
While there is nothing quite like debriefing with a person who’s just returned from their first career break imagine how intrigued we are to interview employees of two other firms [...]
Picture a hamster on a wheel, running in place as fast as she can. That’s exactly how I felt before I made the decision to take a sabbatical. I am a small business owner and had been the project manager for building a new house, packing and moving from the old house, and moving into the [...]