CAReer Mechanics: Finding that Spark Again

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When your career is stalling and your performance is losing power, it’s time to change your spark plugs. The ceramic inserts in your career spark plugs have worn out and are no longer allowing that energy to arc across the gap between “who you currently are” and “who you want to be”.

 

 

Corporate Exiting Strategies for blooming entrepreneurs.

Helping others to easily transition into their next chapter whether it’s the next ladder of success within their corporate environment or into the entrepreneurial playground.

10 Career Boosting New Year’s Resolutions: Part 1

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This is the time of year that many people explore New Year Resolutions.  But I’m not here to talk about just any New Year Resolution.  In this 3 part article, I want to discuss changes that will boost your career to the next level.  These career boosting resolutions will assure that you have a happy and prosperous 2012.  You can view part 1 below:

 

 

 

Leave a comment in the space below to share some of your specific career-boosting resolutions for 2012.

 

Laura Lee Rose has been in the software and testing industry for over 20 years. She’s worked with such companies as IBM, Ericsson, Staples, Fidelity Investments and Sogeti in various client advocacy and project management roles. The techniques she used in her business coaching and client advocacy work saved these companies both time and money, which resulted in on-time, quality product delivery with higher client satisfaction.

 

Assuring you a prosperous 2012

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Many people will be wishing you a “Happy New Year”. You deserve more that just a wish. I want to assure you a happy new year. Take the following 4 steps to assure yourself an exciting and prosperous 2012.

The 11 Most Influentials in 2011
designed to assure a prosperous 2012

As the year comes to a close, please take time to reflect on the people, places, and events that have made you who you are today. This would include both affirmative and challenging entities; for those items that most frustrated us in 2011 helped us clarify what we actually prefer. Use those most trying people or periods to create your 2012 goals.

4 Steps to a prosperous 2012:

  1. Create a list of the top 11 most influential people, places or things in your 2011 (TO YOU).
  2. Consider people, books, movies, event, and anything that made you think or expand.
  3. Write them (even if it’s an inanimate object) a thank you note describing how you changed because of your interaction with them.
  4. For those letters you will be sending out, include
    a. your 2012 plans and goals (This allows them to keep their eyes out for those opportunities.)
    b. a request or plan to ‘kick’ your interaction with them to the next level.

Let me know how you feel when you have completed this assignment.

If you would like see some letter templates, please let me know.

Surrounding yourself with success

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Professional development series

This is Laura Lee Rose, Corporate Exit Strategist for the blooming entrepreneur, and I am a business and life coach that specializes in professional development, time management, project management and work-life balance strategies. This is a segment from my Corporate Exit Strategy Leadership series

I’m driving back from a lovely weekend with a close friend. My friend’s son is twenty-one and living in her home rent-free. While I was there, my friend’s son had a series of good friends drop in throughout the weekend. Some spent the night and others had full access to the refrigerator, video games, etc. While my friend was happy that her son was safe, happy and had good friends, she was disappointed that he had quit his fast-food job. And he didn’t seem to be seriously looking for another position. He was taking some college classes but was currently taking a break. When his mom nags, he makes minimum motion toward filling out a job application at game/video retail shops. But it doesn’t seem to be self-initiated.

I certainly understood her frustration, so I asked, “He seems very popular. His friends seem very much at home here. Tell me more about them. Where do they live? What are they studying? Are they students in college? Do they have jobs? What are they passionate about?”

She shook her head and said, “Oh, they are very nice. They have known each other from high school. Matt shares an apartment with his brother. He doesn’t have a job. Joe lives with his grandmother. I don’t think he works. And Chris lives with his parents; he doesn’t go to school or work either…. “ Continue reading →

What is coaching?

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Coaching is a professional service providing clients with feedback, insights, and guidance from an outside vantage point. Coaching is a collaborative process that offers clarity, focus and support for your dreams and goals.  The profession of coaching is similar to the practice of a physician, attorney, or psychologist. Coaching can help you get organized and manage your life to have, be or do whatever you want with joy and ease.  The major difference is that coaching is an on-going collaborative partnership built on taking action. In this powerful alliance, clients find themselves:

  • Doing more than they would on their own
  • Taking themselves more seriously
  • Creating momentum and consistency
  • Taking more effective and focused actions
  • Becoming more balanced and fulfilled
  • People hire a coach when they are making a career transition, starting a new business, feeling dissatisfied, re-evaluating life choices, or simply looking for personal and professional breakthroughs.

Quarterback Playbook

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Are YOU having the best year ever?

Quarterback Play Program
Make Magic Your Norm

Transforming the life you have into the life you want.

We accomplish our goals more easily when we share our commitments with external people or accountability partner. This new Quarterback program provides you with this additional assistance.  At the first session, you define a well-balanced picture of what is truly important to you. Using this wish list, we will create a definition of “Your Best Year Ever”, along with the list of your team mates and milestone goal lines.

We then schedule an iterative review of your playbook (which could include your family, your career, your community, your relationship, your health, your creativity and artistic side, your inner self-development and growth). We will discuss your many accomplishments in those areas and future ways to keep you on target.  As you change, you will discover that your desires will also change. We will continue to tweak and add to your playbook as you evolve, to keep it vital and relevant to you. These reviews will be scheduled in advance, in 3 month cycles independent on what part of the calendar year you start.

Introductory offer

The Quarterback package is currently $200 ($50 a session). The quarterly review sessions are normally done via phone and are 30 minutes in length, with unlimited email consultation included.  You are guaranteed to be uplifted, and energized with renewed commitment after every review. As you continue to focus on your goals, you will continue to achieve them faster and be inspired to greater heights.
Isn’t it time to transform the life you have into the life you really want?

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Upsizing Your Life

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Given the world is our playground, could you be playing a bigger game????

“The coaching helped me get motivated,” Karen Underhill says. “My coach made me think forward and visualize what I want.”

The Business of Busyness
The Art of Time Management

Newsweek Jan 26, 2010

Are you caught up in the Business of Busyness:

  • Are you drowning in “should dos” and “ought to dos”?
  • Do you having so much to do that you can’t decide what to do?
  • Are you adding two more action items for every one you cross off?
  • Are you meant for so much more, but feel trapped in the mundane?

Laura Rose specializes in helping driven individuals with their time management skills, project management training and work/life balance strategies. With this partnership, they transform the life they have into the life they want.

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Enterprising Women Group

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Join the Enterprising Women meetup group

Started April 9, 2011, we meet 2nd and 4th Saturdays (9:00am-11:00 am)

This group was started to support, encourage and appreciate the enterprising women in the Raleigh area. The purpose of this group is to invite high profile speaker guests to share their expertise, experience and strengths to other leading thinking ladies. It’s also to allow enterprising women to meet, interact and network in a positive and comfortable environment. This group is intended for successful women who are inspired toward even greater success.

For more information go to Enterprising Women Meetup Group

Your Issues, Our Programs

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Our programs covers the following topics:

  • Family time issues
  • Teen time issues
  • Couples time issues
  • Managing time to eliminate stress
  • Finding play time
  • Increasing effective performance thru efficiency
  • Increasing effective leadership with time and project management skills
  • Creating a time savings account
  • Managing clutter and disorder to save time
  • Effective communication techniques to save time
  • Efficient meeting management to save time
  • Proper ground rules and expectations to avoid difficult conversations