092 Pursuing Meaningful Work – Your Career Change Action Plan
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Pursuing Meaningful Work Episode 092 – Your Career Change Action Plan
When planning a career change, people have to deal with their fears. The best way to face your fear, is to make a plan by answering these questions:
What have you got to lose?
What have you got to gain?
What’s stopping you from making the change?
If you want to change your career or shift to a vocation that’s a better fit, put together an action plan.
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091 Pursuing Meaningful Work – Quit Your Job
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Pursuing Meaningful Work Episode 091 – Quit Your Job
Our career coaching client wrapped up the process with us. He did a good job going through the entire process. After 24 years with a company, he decided to leave because the company has changed so much, that it no longer fit his passions.
Are you thinking about quitting your job? Put a plan together with it. Don’t stay locked up in your current situation.
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089 Pursuing Meaningful Work – Find a New Career Soon
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Pursuing Meaningful Work Episode 089 – Find a New Career Soon
Our Online Career Coach will be available on Sep 1, 2010. We’re releasing a Gold and a Platinum version. You can purchase these online at https://leadershipequip.com/?store&catid=1.
Understand yourself better and find a new career that’s a better fit.
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090 Pursuing Meaningful Work – Interview with Ben Robinson
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Pursuing Meaningful Work Episode 090 – Meaningful Work Interview: Ben Robinson
Ben Robinson is from Kyiv, Ukraine. He’s a friend from several years back, when I worked in Ukraine, teaching English for a Christian group. Ben is also a partner and will be working with us with some coaching clients as well.
Ben has lived in Ukraine for almost 15 years. He grew up in the United Kingdom. But he was born in Spain when his parents went on a holiday. He is now married to a Ukrainian, Tanya. They have 3 children, two with a UK passport, and one with a Ukraine passport.
He initially came to Ukraine as a volunteer staff to teach English. After 2 years, he joined an organization called the Center for Leadership Development. It was an organization that works with young university graduates.
Currently, he works as a co-pastor of a Church in Kyiv which works with a lot of graduates, from creative backgrounds. He also continues to teach as a freelance trainer and coach. Finally, he does a little bit of photography work.
He says, “Life, in its fullness and the dynamics of life, and the questions people face, are similar, wherever we are in the world, People want to have a way to make a difference. People need to know what their talents are, people need to find a place to use their talents.”
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088 Pursuing Meaningful Work – Taking Risks In Your Career
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Pursuing Meaningful Work Episode 088 – Taking Risks In Your Career
I posted a blog post on 48Days.net. Dan Miller, the owner of 48Days.net highlighted this post and it generated some discussion.
Have you taken a big risk in your career? As you’re reading this, I’m in Ukraine. A couple of years back I made a risk of going to Ukraine. It was a big risk that has resulted in huge dividends.
What risks have you taken today? Are you on the edge of making a change in your career?
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086 Pursuing Meaningful Work – Have You Lost Your Job Recently?
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Pursuing Meaningful Work Episode 086 – Have You Lost Your Job Recently?
Unemployment is an issue that has become very real to a lot of people around the world. Current unemployment numbers is at its highest for many years. Currently 10% of Americans are unemployed.
On Sat, Aug 21, you’ll hear my interview with Daniel Johnson, Jr., who’s a personal friend of mine. He too has become unemployed a few weeks back. You’ll learn how he has bounced back from being unemployed.
Have you found yourself in a place where you’ve been unemployed. Stay sane and keep a positive outlook.
1. Use it as a time to keep your skills current. Volunteer to tutor kids at a local school district. Volunteer to do a little computer work at a local library or somewhere.
2. Take some time to develop some new skills. Do the things you’ve been wanting to do for a while. If you go online, there’s all kinds of tutorials to do things.
3. Use your time off to find work that would be a better fit. Go to ONet.org. Do a thorough search there on the types of jobs that might fit your personality.
If you’re currently unemployed, hang in there. If we can do anything for you, give us a call on the feedback line at 888-499-3689 or drop me an email at Brent@LeadershipEquip.com
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085 Pursuing Meaningful Work – Helping Others In Your Career
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Pursuing Meaningful Work Episode 085 – Helping Others In Your Career
When I lived in Eastern Europe a couple of years ago, I would go to Poland from time to time. A Polish woman asked for my help. But I felt somewhat helpless because I only knew a couple of words in Polish since I was studying Russian.
Armed with basic Russian, we were able to communicate in Russian. To make a long story short, she wanted to make sure she doesn’t miss her bus stop because she had poor eyesight.
As it turned out, we were getting off at the same bus stop.
Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you can help somebody but passed it by? Have you had the opportunity to help somebody in their career, in their vocation.
For me, the big benefit in running this business is helping people in practical ways. We’ve been coaching folks for two years now.
This is the reason we’re coming out with the Online Career Coach. We’ve had more clients than we could handle one on one, so we came up with this combination approach of online resources and individual interaction with us. This is a practical way to help people and provide something that’s more economical.
Go out there in faith and go help somebody today, with something practical.
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084 Pursuing Meaningful Work – Interview with Davy George
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Pursuing Meaningful Work Episode 084 – Meaningful Work Interview: Davy George
Davy George is the World’s Greatest Handyman.
We’ve had him do small jobs around our house. Then slightly bigger jobs. Now…we are planning to have him finish our basement in 2011.
Why do we like him so well?
He’s passionate. He’s good at what he does. And…he’s got the best relational skills of any handyman we’ve ever met.
Tune in to hear about the World’s Greatest Handyman…and learn why is business is exploding.
Contact Davy George at:
E-mail – niketodoit@yahoo.com
Phone 913-530-2554
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083 Pursuing Meaningful Work – Thanks for your feedback…
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Pursuing Meaningful Work Episode 083 – Feedback From Folks
This is another feedback episode. We’ve received some feedback from folks on our voicemail feedback line at 888-499-3689. This line runs 24/7 directly to voicemail.
We also highlight and thank folks who left feedback on our Facebook Fan Page at www.facebook.com/pursuingmeaningfulwork.
We also received feedback from our Pursuing Your Calling group at RansomedHeart.net and from twitter.com/meaningfulwork.
We encourage you to join our Pursuing Your Calling group, on RansomedHeart.net. There are some good discussions going on here.
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082 Pursuing Meaningful Work – Values at Work
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Pursuing Meaningful Work Episode 082 – Values
In this podcast we explore the meaning of Values in our lives.
I had a job where my value of honesty and integrity was violated by what my boss asked me to do. I really felt then, as I do now, that my values are God-given, so if I am violating those, I’m going against how God has wired me. In the end, there was nowhere to go with that company. Although I loved the job and I absolutely loved travelling, it was a dealbreaker because one of my core values – honesty and integrity was being violated.
Have you ever been in a situation like that or are you in a situation like that now? Are you looking for something different than what you have? Are you afraid to leave that situation because you may find yourself unemployed longer than you can afford or want to?
We may not talk about spirituality on this feed, but there is a spiritual component to how we are wired, how we are made and how that plays out in the workplace.
If you are doing things that honor God and honor how you are wired and how he’s made you, then that’s going to bring good fruit in the end. Those are hard situations to be in but those are situations that I love because when you put yourself in a situation where there’s nothing to do but to trust God, that’s where he loves to come through for you.
