Start the year well - together

I hope you are starting 2024 well, being your best self to meet your goals. Please share your successes and celebrate!

 

Thank you for your support and feedback in 2023. I am looking forward to another year of building relationships and learning together. Each year, I become more convinced  that we learn best together, in the moment: in the heat of action and cool reflection - when the head and the heart are both engaged. 

 

If learning together with your team, friends or classmates… appeals to you, let's explore how I can help you do that in a mastermind group, peer coaching, reflection group or make your own learning format. 

 

My next free-to-join open space will be after the Chinese New Year break. We'll discuss making authentic human connections when we network, later in February. Details in the next newsletter.

Will you take control of your career in 2024 or leave it to others? 

What will you achieve for yourself before the end of 2024? Are you lacking a career strategy or lacking the tools to realize your strategy? If you know you have to change something but not sure what or how, please talk to me or you can get 50% off my Complete Career Strategy and Job Change Course through 29th February with the coupon code CNY2024 - it bundles together all our courses on Career Strategy, Networking, CV/Cover Letter writing, Interview preparation and lots more.

Always connect!

After almost 10 years of collaborating with Luigi Centenaro and recommending his excellent Personal Branding canvas and process to students and clients, we finally met face-to-face last week. 

We first found each other on LinkedIn thanks to our Personal Brands telling that we shared so many interests & activities. Staying in touch, being curious and helpful has made it a real, enduring connection. Still nothing beats meeting face to face! You can read more on my blog here. 

Toughest interview questions

I'll be sharing some of your questions with model answers this year.

First up “I am often asked, why have you been changing companies every 2-3 years for the past 15 years? How can we be sure that you won’t leave us in 2-3 years?”

This is a version of the job-hopping question. Having momentum and career growth  is something to proud, not ashamed, of. How will you surface the interviewer's concern and address it? One option:

Checkout my new Interview Preparation course for more model answers like: How do I deal with an interviewer who seems to have decided on another candidate? How can I feel more confident? How do I close the interview assertively? How do I tackle an interviewer who is unclear about the terms of success?

 

There's still time to send me your toughest interview questions

Get my feedback on your presentation

Are you getting the feedback and guidance you need to  present more effectively in 2024?

Students on my Executive Presence course asked me to watch them present, give them feedback and guidance how to present more impactfully with prepared slides or speaking ex tempore.

I have packaged this into a standalone presentation review. We do it in a presentation space or by video conference depending on where you need to be more effective. I video your presentation then we critique the video together. You can find all the details below.