Practicing Active Listening Skills Have you been practicing your active listening skills? My wife and I are back in Austin for a week to get some “stuff” done like getting the car registration renewed. I am very specifically working on practicing my active listening skills. When we were back in Austin in May to get […]
Reconnect and Awaken Dormant Ties to Revive Your Job Search
Awaken Dormant Ties to Revive Your Job Search My good friend Thom Singer recently recorded a video, Awaken Dormant Ties (the future of business relationships) where he stated that: There is so much value in reaching out to people with who you used to be connected and rebuilding those relationships. The term format dormant ties […]
Are you Nervous about Networking After COVID-19? Here are some Tips
Nervous about Networking After COVID-19? Are you nervous about networking again? If you listened to my podcast episode, Getting Back to Normal – My Observations from 26 Coffee Meetings, you will understand why I am asking this question. So many of the people I met were being very careful about returning to any form of […]
Suffering from Pandemic Fatigue & Wondering How to Deal with It
Suffering from Pandemic Fatigue I am suffering from pandemic fatigue and I wanted to share in this post what I am doing to deal with it. It does not help that we are in the middle of an extremely contentious election cycle which has many on edge. I have spent a lot of time this […]
2020 Career Pivot Readers Survey
2020 Career Pivot Readers Survey This year’s reader survey is kicking off early this year as I want to get the pulse of our community after 7 months of a pandemic that has been devastating for some, an uncomfortable experience for others, and a non-event for others. This year I will not ask you a […]
Community – What Is The Value Of Belonging To One?
Community Do you belong to a community? I am sure you do but what kind of community? There are all kinds of communities: Spiritual Professional Exercise Social Business I am sure there are others that I cannot think of, but we all belong to different kinds of communities. I cannot speak for everyone but for […]
7 Best Practices that Empower Your Career and Business
Best Practices that Empower Your Career and Business Have you developed some best practices that empower others to help you in your career and business? I was on a Zoom call run by a Meetup group called, LinkedIn Local Austin Networking. I have been involved with this group for years when I lived in Austin […]
Watching the Response to the Pandemic from Mexico
Watching the Response to the Pandemic I want to take a moment and contrast the response to the pandemic by the state of Jalisco Mexico to my home state of Texas. Our planned trip back to Austin, Texas, which was originally planned for April was put on hold by the lockdown. Our next plan was […]
What is the Pandemic Changing in the World? Everything!
What is the Pandemic Changing in the World? The COVID-19 pandemic is changing just about everything. It is getting us to re-evaluate our lives, businesses, relationships, how we spend our money and time, and what is important in life. To me, that feels like just about everything. This post was largely inspired by Josh Bersin’s […]
