coaching for clarity and courage
Did I have any personal career victories I should record for my annual review or to mention in future job interviews? Did anyone on my team have a problem or a success this week? Does anyone need coaching or congratulations? […]
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Read the call for proposals and take note of the scoring. Spend your time accordingly. If the management plan is worth five points, don’t spend two days of meetings sorting it out. Pick something good enough and move on to […]
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How to read a scientific paper. via Chris Blattman. How to tell when a data visualization is lying to you. Also from Chris Blattman. The Data Journalism handbook is an excellent resource for anyone who wants to work with numbers. […]
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Be clear, kind, and concise. Apologize briefly if you want, but it is fine to refuse a request, and you don’t need to feel guilty about it. If you know you need to refuse, do it quickly. Pretending to think […]
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Start with a 1-2 sentence explanation of why you are writing to this particular person. “I am writing to you because of your background in vermiculture for smallholder farms. Your unique approach to worm composting has long influenced my […]
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I’ve spent the last two weeks as part of a multinational health sector assessment effort, and we’ve worked through interpreters the whole time. I’ve obviously worked with translators before, but never every day all day for two weeks. It’s really […]
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How to write a book review, a really excellent guide from Paul Mason at Culture Matters How to diversify your income, from Lauren Holliday at Medium. A little too heavy on things she hasn’t personally tried, but a useful list […]
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Training to be a coach is a weird thing. It’s a mixture of neuroscience and pop psychology and, frankly, cultural appropriation. It’s got complicated spiritual metaphors and evidence-based research on how the brain responds to stress. It’s a big information download, […]
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Career consulting isn’t like coaching. When I coach, I ask you big questions to help you figure out what you already know and believe. When I mentor, I share the stuff I know and believe. It’s a very different dynamic. […]
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I’ve written about questions to ask at a job interview before. An interview is not an audition. You’re not doing a little dance and trying to get the employer to like you. It’s a fact-finding mission, for both sides. You […]
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