The Career Mentoring Project

My son thinks my new blog is sexist. Well, not the content, but the website title. Think so? Her - Career - Story…. I am a storyteller, and here’s the reason why: Stories set the inner life into motion… Story greases the hoists and pulleys, it causes adrenaline to surge, shows us the way out, [...]

Many of the assignments I have tackled in my career have been ones no one else wanted, and they were assigned to me. I didn’t ask for them. Inwardly I’d think “Wow, that’s tough”. Sometimes I almost wondered if it was a “Let’s see if she can do THAT!” The thing many of these assignments had [...]

Last night the local PBS station aired a remarkable documentary: MAKERS: Women Who Make America tells the remarkable story of the most sweeping social revolution in American history, as women have asserted their rights to a full and fair share of political power, economic opportunity, and personal autonomy. It’s a revolution that has unfolded in public and [...]

Ever on a team that started off politely, and then all hell broke loose? If you were on a new team and that did NOT happen, I’d say you weren’t paying attention. Every project, every team, requires one or more Team-Building activities. One model of team development, proposed by Bruce Tuckman in 1965, proposes that the following [...]

  Some years back I attended at “High Performing Systems” workshop in California, right on the beach, at the lovely Seascape Resort. It was a 4.5 day workshop designed to teach us about creating Learning Organizations. Teams were formed from the participants and each team was given the same increasingly difficult assignments which were competitively rated at [...]

You are creative. Inventive ways of getting results occur to you easily, your mind solves puzzles quickly, and you can quickly generate three or four options to solve any problem. Does this describe you? What has your experience been with getting traction for your “good ideas” inside your company? Have your ideas been pushed aside or worse [...]

What if you had all the money you needed, what would you love to do with your life http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siu6JYqOZ0g

Yesterday I was visiting with a young woman, let’s call her Rita, who admitted to me that she “hates her job”. Rita is a single mother of a preschool age son. She’s the Breadwinner for her family. Rita works in a Call Center for an insurance company and has been at that job for about 4 years. Recently Rita’s management spent nine [...]

Have you ever felt that way at work? Where you seem to be just about the only one “like you”? At my first engineering job I was the first women that company had ever hired that wasn’t a secretary. There was only one other woman, the company President’s secretary. I’m not sure they knew quite [...]

It’s your first day at the new job and everyone is so nice and things appear to be going along well. You may think to yourself “This is going to be great!”. Sometimes it turns out to be a great place to work, and sometimes there is a surprise waiting for you. I like to call [...]