Free Webinar: Identifying High Potentials Using Assessments – Sept. 1st

Free Webinar (Sept. 1st): Identifying High Potentials Using Assessments

During this one hour program, you will:

1. Become aware of the difference between leadership potential and performance.
2. Understand the relationship between cognitive ability and work styles in identifying high potentials.
3. Be aware of which Work Styles are essential for being a high potential.
4. Know how to assess high-potential characteristics in individuals through assessments that provide 360º feedback, measure cognitive ability, and show work style preferences.
5. Learn about Workplace Coach Institute’s online 360 assessment certification program to use the AAI 360 tool!

Register for this free webinar here!

Free Webinar: 5 Mistakes Coaches and Consultants Make With Their Personal Brand Strategy and How To Avoid Them – Sept. 20th

Free Webinar Sep. 20th: 5 Mistakes Coaches and Consultants Make With Their Personal Brand Strategy and How To Avoid Them

During this one hour program, you will:

1. You will learn exactly what 5 steps you must take to create the most dynamic branding strategy for you.
2. Know what you need to avoid and how to overcome common obstacles to market yourself using the most current trends.
3. PLUS learn the 10 questions you should ask yourself about your current personal brand.
4. Learn how to register for the upcoming Personal Branding for Coaches program at the introductory price!

Personal branding is a powerful and “must have” marketing strategy for coaches and consultants to distinguish themselves in a growing industry.

• Building your credibility and visibility.
• Attracting a regular stream of leads into your business.
• Converting prospects into paying clients

But, if you’re like many other entrepreneurs and small business owners, the idea of sitting down and mapping out an actual strategy about your “remarkable difference” stresses you out.  For one thing – who has the time?  Not to mention the fact that you may not even know what makes your business unique.

Register for this free webinar here!

How Smart People Lose Their MOJO… and How To Get it Back!

Part One: Losing Your Career MOJO

If you’ve been progressing in your career, or a college student studying hard to maintain that “GPA”, chances are you’ve experienced at least one career “hiccup” or setback. These career hiccups can suck the air out of one’s spirit, making it hard to carry on with dignity and drive. Often, our mental energy is hijacked, our self esteem bruised, and we limit our social connections out of shame or embarrassment. Some of the “hiccups” that can happen to hardworking, well-meaning, capable, and very smart people include:

• Not going for that big opportunity
• Getting passed up for a promotion
• Losing money
• Getting fired
• Not getting into graduate school

Career-altering events can happen to anyone — and they do. But when they happen to very smart people, they may seem incomprehensible, largely because smart people have worked so hard , have rarely experienced failure, may have few experiences of “bouncing back” and have dedicated their life to the task or company more than their well being or relationships.

But even when we can partially blame external events, there comes a time when we must take a hard look at what we could have done differently. Despite faltering companies, imperfect leaders, coworkers who don’t like us and other external variables, we must eventually engage in private, honest reflection to get our MOJO back. This honest reflection gives the human spirit space and time to breathe. Reflection also allows one to tap into the intelligence of emotions to acknowledge, accept, and appreciate the event, and the wisdom that was gained. What part did I play in the events leading up to the career crossroads?

What is Career MOJO?

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Brand Advice For Coaches: 3 Essential Support Systems You Can’t Do Without

Every solo business owner has a set of processes or systems that either promote their business very well or contribute to the business’ demise. There are really 3 essential systems that any successful business owner needs in place in order to automate the things they repetitively do over and over again, while adequately supporting the brand. These systems form the structure of success because they are the ways in which you continuously reinvigorate your business for expansion and growth.

What is a system? For purposes of this article, we’re going to define a system as follows: a set of integrated, interdependent processes that can be replicated over and over again to produce similar results.

This article is designed to explain the 3 critical brand support systems for real breakthrough in your business. These essential systems are key to ensuring your success and creating a structure on which your brand can thrive.
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Dr. Lynn Joseph – A Career Practitioner for our Time

Millicent N. Simmerlink (founder/president, Career Links Counseling, Rocky River, Ohio) stated the following in support of her choice for a top idol.

“This Career Development Idol nominee is a Psychologist, Career and Life Transition Specialist, Private Practitioner, Entrepreneur, and Leading Authority on the use of guided visualization techniques in helping people recover from job loss. Formerly, a Senior Vice President of Career & Life Transition Programs at Parachute, Inc. and an Executive Search Consultant, this individual understands the personal struggles associated with job loss and career transition. Her landmark study on the use of guided visualization as an added value to outplacement was published in the esteemed Consulting Psychology Journal. Her Development of The Job Loss Recovery Program as an innovative tool for helping people in transition reduce their stress and achieve their goals, despite obstacles and setbacks, has been endorsed by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. If you are wondering who this champion of career practicioners is her name is Dr. Lynn Joseph!”
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