Podcast #323 – My Observations of Post-Pandemic Mental Health for Those 55+ in Age Description: In this episode, I want to discuss mental health issues that I have seen around me. We just spent 3 weeks back in the United States and I had many meetings with friends, past clients, and professional colleagues. I heard […]
Are You Playing the Blame Game in These Uncertain Times?
Playing the Blame Game? Are you playing the blame game? Trying to find someone to blame for the problems that you have no control over. Believe me, there are a lot of problems in the world that neither you nor I have any control over. Whether it is other people’s behavior, government or company mandates, […]
Career and Industry Disruption – You Just Can’t Make this Stuff Up!
Career and Industry Disruption I have been writing and speaking on career and industry disruption for most of 2021. The more I dig into the industry disruption I keep seeing a correlation to career disruption. Some of this is people experiencing the industry disruption being caused by a variety of calamities and therefore, causing them […]
Own Your Life, Career, and Future in the Post COVID-19 World
Own Your Life, Career, and Future Are you ready to Own Your Career, Life, and Future? I have been speaking with many job clubs and other organization leaders about what they are seeing with their constituents. Many have told me that as we hit the 18-month mark of the COVID-19 pandemic fatigue has set in. […]
A Discussion about Older Workers and ‘The Big Quit’ with Chris Farrell [Podcast]
Podcast #235 – A Discussion about Older Workers and ‘The Big Quit’ Description: This week I am speaking with Chris Farrell. I have had Chris on the podcast three other times. I had him on in episodes 2, 177, and 201. So you can tell he is one of my favorite guests. Chris is currently […]
Nurturing Relationships is Key to Recovering from the COVID-19 Pandemic
Nurturing Relationships I have come to the conclusion that if we want to recover from this pandemic, both professionally and personally, we need to focus on nurturing relationships. After I had 26 coffee meetings while I was in Austin for the month of May, I was quite taken aback by how much difficulty some of […]
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 […]
Record Retirements, Quitting & New Businesses Starts in 2021 – What the Heck?
Record Retirements, Quitting & New Business Starts in 2021 There have been a record number of retirements, quitting and new business starts in 2021. 2021 employment market looks nothing like the employment market prior to when the pandemic started. We are living in unprecedented times and I wanted to unpack this and get your feedback. […]
Have a “Dealing with Disruption” Superpower and not Know It?
Dealing with Disruption Superpower Everyone these days is dealing with disruption due to the pandemic. Please listen to my podcast episode with Glenn Zweig called How to Switch Industries from Executive Search Consultants Perspective [Podcast]. You will hear him say the way to switch industries is to focus on how we dealt with disruption in […]