“Talent Whisperers” and Other Career Development Trends

Like the guy looking for the perfect country song formula, most of us are looking for a formula for successful career development. In his book the Talent Code, Daniel Coyle claims the formula for a successful career depends on three crucial factors:

Practicing slowly, deeply, and attentively—operating right at the raw edges of your ability, making [...]

Career Development Monty Python Style

So what do a doctor, lawyer, historian, graphic artist, English teacher, and script writer have in common? They are the original professions of the members of Monty Python’s Flying Circus comedy team!
As Monty Python recently celebrated its 40th anniversary, it is interesting to speculate about how these talented individuals might have spent their careers had [...]

Employee Turnover in the IT Industry

Even as companies institute hiring freezes or are downsizing, they would do well to remember that it is more cost effective in the long run to hold on to employees with key skills.
When employees leave, organizations have to attend to the high cost of training and development, burnout of existing staff, and decreased quality [...]

4 Tips for Managing a Mid-Life Career Change

From personal experience I have found that there are only two types of people who change careers in mid life: those who want to and those who have to. And it seems that the “have to” group is in the majority these days.
With this in mind, here are four-tips for people who “have to” [...]

Career Development as a Marketing Challenge

Careers are not what they used to be! Some professions (e.g. medicine, law, and military) still offer a fairly consistent career structure through which people progress over their lifetimes. For most of us, however, the old (and reliable?) career structures are evaporating or are already gone.
This is not such a problem for “Millenials” (born [...]

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