Do we need professional advisors? Yes, more than ever. We may need different kinds of specialized advice at different times. And we will have to be thoughtful about what, who, and when we make the selections. Here some important criteria for choosing your professional advisors. You may want and need: A financial advisor. The term makes it sound like they…
My clients often come to me wanting to get away from some sort of stress and pain in their lives – work that isn’t a good fit, a divorce, stress of caretaking elder parents. The pain can come in many forms and from any aspect of our lives that’s not going as well or healthfully as we’d like it to…
Years ago, when my 4 older granddaughters were still young, I lived on the East Coast and they lived on the West. It worked for us, at least temporarily, as a great communication vehicle. Together we tried some pretty creative ways to stay connected. The blog below is actually a magazine column I wrote when my granddaughter, Laura, was about…
Reality checks on Speed Interviewing whether you’re 22 or 62. I recently sat at one of several company/employer-sponsored speed interviewing tables where rotating college students had a very brief time to distribute resumes, let us know who they were and ask questions of us. Sounds stressful but great doesn’t it? Or maybe not. What might make it not so great?…
My new web site is a demonstration of how I am living my professional life, wearing more than one hat and working with more than one client base. Times have changed. I like to think of myself as part of the leading wave. Many of us grew up at a time when one college major, one first job, one employer,…
I have a new book in my gut. Like a lot of “books” today, I don’t know, upon delivery, what it will most closely resemble: a physical or digital book, an online training, a series of booklets, or a course including instructor certification or some other form I haven’t yet heard of. The concept came when a CEO said, “I…
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