24 Aug

ZOOM S2 Session 21 – Are We Chasing the Wind?

As I have always maintained, ambition is truly a virtue. We did a Saturday ZOOM session, back in early June, to explore the difference between building a successful Christian career foundation or just chasing fantasies.    What we didn't cover, however, was knowing how to prevent becoming a wind-chaser.  What steps...
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18 Jun

ZOOM S2 Session 11 – Are You a Career Zombie? There is a Cure

Have you become a career zombie? Not quite sure? Science shows that we unconsciously pursue the goals of others when our own are not clearly defined. No, this is not a session on goal-setting. It is a discussion about our WHY. As the prolific holocaust survivor Victor Frankly...
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02 Sep

ZOOM Session 022 – How Activity-Stacking Saves Time by Doubling Output

This is not a coaching session on multi-tasking.  REPEAT: This is not about multi-tasking.  Multi-tasking is impossible and worst and horribly inefficient at best.  This is about training your brain to use the same time period to accomplish two tasks with no extra effort.  When we start looking for how...
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30 Aug

ZOOM Session 016 – The Top 10 Things That Ruin Careers

It's really easy to think of catastrophic blunders that bring an immediate end to a job.  I imagine punching a boss or embezzling money or drug use at work. That's not what this top-10 list covers.  In this video we review those subtle things we do, mostly without even realizing...
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30 Aug

ZOOM Session 013 – Unconscious Incompetence in Emotionally Intelligent Leaders

In Deuteronomy 29:29 it says "the secret things belong to the Lord." There is a profound wisdom in acknowledging how little we actually know.  As a famous theologian named Thomas Watson once said, "The greatest part of our knowledge is not as much as the least part of our...
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16 Aug

ZOOM Session 014 – H.A.L.T. – Overcoming Negative Emotion at Work

We all experience negative emotion in the workplace.  I think it fair to say we all realize negative emotions don't serve our career very well.  In this group executive coaching session I explore a new way to consider the possible causes of the negative emotion and some really fantastic...
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16 Aug

ZOOM Session 017 – Your Next Move…Make It Strategic

Few professionals, let alone Christian professionals, take the time to plan out a career path.  It takes strategic thinking, like you might find in a chess match.  In this video I take examples from three chess grand-masters to parallel with career aspirations.  As it says in Proverbs 21:5, the...
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19 Jul

ZOOM Session 019 – Is it Right to Suppress Our Emotions at Work?

There's a part of us that wants to vent at work when things aren't right. Something inside, however, holds us back.  We choose, instead, to suppress how we're feeling instead of expressing it.  Is this the right thing to do?  The truth is, other factors are at work when...
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