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The Power of Coaching
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By Dr. Linda D. Babcock
- Linda C. Babcock
I’m involved in a program developed by the Women and Girls Foundation called Catapult (www.wgfswpa.org), which offers negotiation coaching services to women in Southwestern Pennsylvania. I worked with a team of talented women to develop the program and train the coaches. While we are still in the pilot phase of the program, it is already producing amazing results. Clients are learning to take charge of their careers and are using negotiation to make positive changes in their lives. Sometimes this involves seeking a promotion or a change in duties at work and sometimes it involves realizing that a change of job is required. The clients are negotiating great things for themselves! But the program has helped the new coaches we trained as much as the clients they are assisting. The coaches are seeing themselves in a whole new light – empowered to help friends, family members, and colleagues understand the power of negotiation. They are becoming “negotiation ambassadors.”
I’ve been a fan of coaching for quite a long time. A number of years ago, I used a coach, Brenda Smith (www.peoplesmithglobal.com), to help me better prioritize my professional goals. She helped me to be more strategic about how I spent my time and helped me to develop a business plan for the organization I later launched that teaches girls and women to negotiate (www.heinz.cmu.edu/progress). I can’t say enough wonderful things about Brenda, the power of the coaching experience, and the substantive changes I was able to make in my life. Read More→
Women Don’t Ask: Negotiation and the Gender Divide
Posted by: | CommentsWomen Don’t Ask: Negotiation and the Gender Divide By Dr. Linda Babcock and Sara Laschever
Note: Linda Babcock and Sara Laschever have written a new book, Ask for It, focusing on practical, hands-on advice on negotiating for women. I highly recommend it. If you have to choose only one book, most people should buy Ask for It. Happy negotiating!
“Women Don’t Ask” is a thorough and fascinating examination of how and why women fear negotiation – e.g., asking for a raise – and how this affects their success and happiness in both their professional and personal lives. This book has its roots in an incident when one of the authors was director of the Ph.D. program at her school. A group of female graduate students pointed out that the male graduate students were getting better teaching assignments and wanted to know why. The person who made the assignments said, simply, “I try to find teaching opportunities for any student who approaches me [...] Read More→
The Successful Career Change Guide
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Visualize Your Goals
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SOFTWARE REVIEW:
By Anna D. Banks
If you are committed to achieving big things in life, this amazing tool could keep you inspired for your goals and in a positive mindset… helping you to manifest the prosperity you deserve!
Review: Vision Board by OrangePeel Ltd
This company OrangePeel Ltd has come up with a way of visualizing your goals and dreams by displaying your dream images, affirmations and power words on your computer screen and other digital devices like your iPod. I though it was an interesting idea and decided to get a copy. Now that I have been using “Vision Board” for a couple of weeks, I thought I should share some of my impressions with you about whether or not it lives up to the promises that OrangePeel Ltd makes about it on their web site.
Is it really that easy to use? Would it really be that flexible and fun to create a personalized Vision Board? And what it comes down to: would it really keep me in a positive mindset and inspired to reach my goals and dreams?
The first thing that impressed me was how easy it was to order the product and get the download. I think I was actually putting pictures into the system after less than 10 minutes of ordering and I straight away received a stack of bonus products as well with my download. So that was a great start. Another thing I thought was really excellent was the simplicity of the system. It is simple to follow, yet powerful.
I played around a little, and got more and more excited as I discovered how easy it was to put my Vision Board together. I am always relieved when things actually work right the first time, and when the system is fool proof for people like me who are no computer geniuses. You can’t go wrong with the three simple steps they take you through. Even a 9 year old could easily create his or her own Vision Board.
So then I really got captivated by it and found myself searching for inspiring images in my own photo gallery to include in the tool. I also checked out the online image library that is included in the software, they had some cool pictures for me to use. I also found a fantastic picture on the Internet of my dream car, my dream house, and dream vacation. Really exciting to see that moving around on my screen all the time, talking about inspiration!
I started to come up with powerful affirmations to add to the pictures. The features that really impressed me were the libraries that come with the software. If you don’t know how to formulate an affirmation or power word, or just need some inspiration just use the library packed with great affirmations and power words.
You even get to choose the font and color of the affirmations that come up and you can decide whether to use colors or an image as your Vision Board background. I chose a picture I made on one of my travels of a beautiful ocean outlook, which inspires me to travel more with my family and friends.
Once I put my Vision Board together with my images, affirmations, power words, favorite music and my chosen background I thought “right, let’s see if this really works..”. So I clicked on “Preview” and pop there was my Vision Board showing on the screen! Wow, I felt as excited as a little child. I decided I wanted to change one of the affirmations, which was so easy to do. I like that a lot, as my dreams change from time to time so I can just adjust my Vision Board accordingly.
The software also includes a Poster Creation Module and their newest edition Vision Board. By focusing on your Vision Board at least twice a day, you are applying The Law of Attraction in a most powerful way. By constantly feeding your subconscious mind with positive affirmations and images of your dreams, feeling as if you have already achieved them, and taking inspired action you will attract your goals into your reality.
OrangePeel has recently released their latest edition Vision Board. Apart from all the powerful existing features, such as the audio module allowing you to incorporate mp3 music and voice recordings into your Vision Board, this “next generation Vision Board includes some very excited extra modules. It includes a set of new presentation themes and a revolutionary MovieRecorder! This fantastic addition allows you to create a movie of your Vision Board and display it on websites, iPod, iPhone, digital photo frames, etc. It also features a fantastic new Poster Creation Program, enabling you to freely copy and paste images and text on a Poster on your screen, which then can be taken to a print shop. So I purchased a copy of this newest edition right away, and I just LOVE it. To be honest, I didn’t think they could do a better job than they already had, but this really is a step up once again from their previous version. I believe these extra features make Vision Board truly the most complete manifestation tool available anywhere!
I am equally amazed how inspired I actually am by this Vision Board. Sometimes I just bring it up on my screen to have a look and get focused again. I lean back and look at the dream images on my screen, listen to my favorite song and really feel what it would be like to have that car, or to go on those travels. This truly inspires me to take massive action and I know by feeling as if I have already achieved it, I will attract it to my reality. This is what I have learned about The Law of Attraction: the more positive energy you give to your goals, the faster you will manifest it. When I turn on my computer in the morning my Vision Board shows as the wall paper. When I come back into my office after lunch or a meeting, my Vision Board is right there showing as the screensaver, so it makes me get right back to business. Vision Board even features a little pop up balloon displaying your affirmations and power words, which increases the exposure to these affirmations and power words and helps adjusting your belief system.
Oh, I almost forgot another amazing feature. After a while I discovered the “export” function in the software. Wow, I realized I could actually send my own Vision Board to my family and business partners! What a cool way to inspire them as well. So I sent one to my partner who called me after half an hour saying “wow, what a cool way of keeping focused, where did you get this? I want to create my own”. Oh, did I mention that you can also print your Vision Board. I have printed a couple of copies and hung them everywhere around the house. It drives some people, but hey I know it works! I even have been able to display my Vision Board on my PDA, thanks to this amazing “export to mobile devices feature”.
I guess you know by now how impressed I am with this tool. I could go on and on about it…. But here’s the bottom line: this software does absolutely everything it claims to and is a MUST for anyone serious about attracting huge success and abundance and wanting to keep inspired. It is just so complete and it makes so much sense to own one. I give this product my absolute highest recommendation.
Oh, I almost forgot: this is a very good time to check out this product as they offer an amazing set of free bonuses. So make sure to not miss out on their mind blowing bonus package valued at over $1000, including bonuses from Eva Gregory, Ruben Gonzalez, Jim Driscoll, Vic Johnson, Lee Brower and Jim Bunch, to name a few. I actually think this bonus package in itself already more than worth the investment!
CLICK HERE to read more about this powerful visualization tool, and how it can help YOU to attract the prosperity you deserve!
Live Fearlessly,
Anna
SBI! makes online business success do-able
Posted by: | CommentsSBI! makes online business success do-able. Anyone can succeed with an all-in-one process, tools, and guidance.
Yes, there are easier ways to build a Web site. However, online profits require more than just having a collection of Web pages. SBI! includes all the tools and a proven process required to build a long-term, profitable e-business.
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SBI! is the only product that takes the time to prepare you to build a profitable business, before you jump into building your site. For the beginner, your learning curve will be shorter and you’ll bypass any show-stopping errors. For those experienced in site-building, SBI! deepens your level of understanding. No matter who you are, you are guided all the way until you succeed.
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When it’s time to create your site’s Look & Feel, SBI! provides fully customizable, easy-to-use templates. You can choose and create a professional-looking presentation, even if you have no design skills. And if you’re a designer, you can create and upload your own. This page shows a range of styles.
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Baby Boomers: How to Make Interviewers See a More Youthful You
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By Anna D. Banks, GCDF
Getting old should not harm your chances of getting a job and just playing it right can help your employment prospects in a number of ways. An example of this is Edward R. Mills who was 61 at the time of the interview. When asked what he did in his spare time all he said he competed in tennis tournaments and did “a little bit of hiking”, taking out a recent photo of him hiking at 14000 foot, Mount Whitney. He was offered the job immediately by WNET-TV and today still works at the same job that is as demanding as ever. His success story gives motivation to other old job seeker even the baby boomers, who face bias at their work because of their age. ExecuNet, a career-networking organization in Norwalk, Connecticut conducted a survey, which reported that after the age of 50 or at it, age plays a major role in organizations that hire.
In order to get over this hurdle, a few tips are listed that can boost your chances to get a job and help an interviewer see a more youthful you.
• The first way is when preparing your resume; it is best to not include the work done once you graduated from college and the date of graduation as well. A better plan would be to list the work done in the past ten to fifteen years. An instance of such method working was when Mr. Sanders was looking for a job in 1999 at the age of 63. He used this technique of resume writing in order to just sell himself to his potential employers and got the job as well. Even the CEO, David Levitt of OpenOrders said, “He probably would not have gotten in the door” with a full disclosure of his job history. ” A disadvantage of this would also be that people wouldn’t have an idea of your age but would see you as a very good candidate and offer entry level positions. Like when Rodney Struhs went for an interview and was given this line by the interviewers. “We’re not really looking for someone with as much experience as you have.” And they were quite surprised to see a balding and stock person.
• Another change would be in the sense of dressing, try and dress young. It is best to look fresh and not old. So you could buy new shoes, update the wardrobe, dye the gray hair, and get medical attention for the baggy eyes, etc and a lot more other changes in order to look young.
• Though there maybe a bias since the interviewee is old, this bias can be changed and Dave Opton, CEO of ExecuNet has also been witness to this. Mark Rigor, a 49 year old rises at five in the morning and rides his bike around ten to thirty miles a day and his tactic was that he radiated youthful zeal by always asking interviewers: “Is there an opportunity in your area to bike? I’m a serious biker.” He was hired as a sales representative for Sure Alloy Steel.
• The best thing to do during the interview is to show and sound eager in mentoring young employees. Even updating your skills will be witness to your skill of adapting to changing technology. It will show that you are capable of working under a younger boss, a team player, and take multiple roles in the work place.
© 2008 Anna D. Banks, GCDF
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Author’s Note:
Do you have any questions about career development or lifestyle changes for Baby Boomers, which you think others, like you, would want to know the answers? Email your questions to me at Anna@AnnaBanks.com.