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Chris Makell - EzineArticles.com Expert Author
Chris Makell is the Career Transitions/Transformation Specialist and founder of Career Crossing, a company devoted to inspiring career professionals around the world, who are facing a crossing point in their careers and struggle with identifying the many directions available, choosing the best solution and achieving the greatest results from their actions.
Highly regarded as the career transitions expert, Chris has the personal and professional expertise for helping clients identify options and opportunities and the ... [More]
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- How to Achieve a Better Career Decision
[Business] Sometimes being easily irritated and cranky is just what the doctor ordered. Use these signs as an indication that a decision is being called from you and use this example to help you make it a good one!
- Career Tip - How to Avoid Meeting Boredom
[Business:Productivity] At various points during a recent workshop I attended, I began to get a little bored. And what happens when we get bored? We tune out, play games or start to "pick apart" the speaker/presenter.
- Career Tip - A Return to Basics
[Business:Career-Advice] It's tough today to focus on doing a good job when there is are so many "other" challenges pulling at your attention. In these times it's helpful to just return to the basics to see us through.
- Career Tip - "Push Pause and Receive"
[Business:Career-Advice] Accepting the generosity of others can be uncomfortable, but these tips will help you open your both hands to both give and receive. This will create a richer and more fulfilling career.
- How to "Freshen Up" Your Career
[Business:Career-Advice] Breathing new life into your career can be as simple as the heartwarming exercise of donating old clothes. Find out how to make it a satisfying ritual.
- When the Going Gets Tough, Where Do You Go?
[Self-Improvement:Success] Tough times can also call for soft measures and deliver better results. Learn the decades old secret to getting through the tough times with greater success.
- How to Network For Fun and Find Success!
[Business:Networking] I think when people tell you that you "should network" it adds a mandatory and stressful component to it. It's as if it's a "must do" and a "must do well".
- Who Have YOU Laid Off?
[Self-Improvement:Success] Recently there was a question on one of the social networking sites about mentors and the benefits of mentoring. It was easily answered (repeatedly) by lots of professionals with what we all know to be true. Mentors and mentoring are extremely beneficial to one's career.
- Discover the Keys to Transform Your Career
[Business:Career-Advice] Not quite ready to make a career change? What if you just want to improve your hand? The keys to enhance the career you are in are within reach and ready to unlock your success.
- How to Lead Yourself Out of Career Frustration
[Business:Careers-Employment] The current swirl of activity in the workplace is giving you clues or breadcrumbs; that should help you decide and take action. Many career professionals are frustrated by this. Now is the time to use that frustration to your benefit.
- Is it Ever Too Late?
[Business] It's never too late if you know the secret to getting started - fast! Discover what you may be missing that brings you closer to living your dreams!
- Four Easy Career Strategies to Banish the Workplace Blues
[Business:Career-Advice] While everyone is heads down and working hard to maintain their positions, there are ways or strategies to keep your spirits up and banish the blues that may be swirling around you. Using just one of these strategies will create a more powerful future for your career!
- How You Can Use Today's Headlines For Tomorrow's Success
[Business] Companies are getting all sorts of advice as to how to help employees manage through the change they are experiencing at work. This same advice can and should be used by employees / career professionals to create more job and life satisfaction for themselves!
- Step by Step - Get Moving on Your Successful Career Change
[Business:Career-Advice] Successful people have a secret to keep going when they just don't feel like it. Uncover their secret and make it your own.
- Give Way to Your Possibilities - They Are a Preview to Greatness
[Self-Improvement:Empowerment] If you stand on formality or in fear, you bar yourself from the possibilities that bring you greatness. There is a way to move forward and embrace the unknown.
- Top 5 Ways to Get Clear About What You Want and Bring it to You Faster
[Self-Improvement:Attraction] You undoubtedly think that it's easy to be clear about what you want. Heck, what you want is what you want. No big surprise, right?
- Discover the Secret to Accomplish What You Want, Faster!
[Business:Productivity] How would you like to accomplish anything you want, faster? There is a secret that is available to any and everyone who wants just that! It's a secret that is really powerful but sometimes hard to understand and take action around. It's simple, yet difficult at the same time. But when you get it, you've got the key to unlock the achievement of your goals.
- The Top 3 Ways to Gain Control in This Unstable Environment
[Self-Improvement:Empowerment] ow about a dose of control to go with today's reality? Yes, you can take control of your future using these practical steps that help you to do so, immediately!
- There's No Way I Can Manage to Do What I Want To
[Self-Improvement:Stress-Management] More often what contributes to the stress in our lives and careers is having so much to do and worrying about whether we can get it all done. Let me help you out, right this very minute. You won't get it all done! Phew! Now that we've gotten that out of the way - trust me, just the awareness of this fact reduces 80% of your stress! Let's talk about the other 20%. We can address that small percentage through a "management system".
- Layoff Survivors - Outwit, Outplay, Outsmart
[Business:Careers-Employment] Often overlooked are those who are "left behind" during a layoff. You too deserve to have the skills to survive in this environment. And you're in the best position to face the challenge and win!
- What Can You Believe In?
[Self-Improvement:Success] With all the drama in the news today, you have to ask what is real and what isn't. Learn a simple tool that will keep you real, when there is no other sane choice.
- Have You Lost Your Mind?
[Self-Improvement:Personal-Growth] Losing your mind can be a great thing if the search for it brings you closer to your truth. Or it can be a momentary distraction like watching an episode of American Idol or CSI... whichever brings relief from the news.
- How to Fearlessly Face a Transition
[Self-Improvement:Motivation] How do you face your fear and move forward when all around you is a swirling mess? There is always a way forward, it just takes a little bit of you to get it started.
- Do You Know the Secret to Being Unstoppable?
[Self-Improvement:Motivation] The truth of the matter is that not everyone can be "unstoppable". It's not for the weak, lazy or untalented...but that's not you, is it?
- How One Single Step Can Dramatically Change Your Results
[Business:Management] This year over ½ million managers will enter new positions in Fortune 500 companies alone. And certainly with the challenges this economy presents, that number could be larger! This shift may include taking on new leadership roles or starting your own business.
- Lead Or Be Led
[Self-Improvement:Leadership] As a leader, do you want to be led or misled? Read on for some ways to recognize the difference and take action accordingly.
- Leadership and the Desire to Be Loved
[Self-Improvement:Leadership] Love as a key motivator to leadership success? Sometimes the two don't always lead to a happy marriage!New leaders and executives take notice.
- Will You See the Opportunities?
[Business:Career-Advice] In every downturn, recession, depression - whatever you call or feel it to be, there are those who capture the opportunities that are always present. Are you the next to see it?
- Celebrate Your Gifts
[Business:Career-Advice] Tis' the season... Are you celebrating your gifts as a high caliber leader? Certainly each day has been a gift, right? OK, so now let's get real.
- Why Leadership That Counts is Needed Now, More Than Ever
[Business:Careers-Employment] Lehman Brothers, AIG, Bank of America buys Merrill Lynch, the housing crisis, mortgage mess, fuel and food costs, on and on...While it looks dire, the times are creating opportunities for more people to become true leaders - not just in business, but in their lives. Let's examine leadership from the two perspectives, personally and professionally to see where you can gain the most from these changing times.
- Greed is Good, Greed Works - For Your Career Development
[Business:Careers-Employment] Do you know how to use greed to your advantage when focused on your career development? It's time you did.
- Your Year, Your Time, Your Career
[Business:Careers-Employment] At this fabulous point in the year, when all is fresh and new, take the time to focus on and set an intention to make this your year, your time, your career! Here are some ideas to get you started...
- Can You Live and Work With Less Security?
[Business:Careers-Employment] Using this time of challenge and change is the RIGHT time to examine your career choices! I dare you to do something about it -- today!
- Enhancing Your Brand Through Mentoring
[Business:Careers-Employment] Mentoring has proven to help build skills, networks and professions. Discover how mentoring can also help you enhance your personal "brand"!
- Career Building - There is Meaning in All of It - Right?
[Business:Careers-Employment] Is there a reason to focus on career building? Can it bring some semblance of meaning to your life?
- Have You Lost Control of Your Career?
[Business:Careers-Employment] Have you lost it? Your career I mean... Well it's time to find it and take control to create the excitement, fulfillment and success that is meant for you!
- Are You Prepared For the Coming Knowledge Based Careers
[Business:Careers-Employment] A seismic shift to more knowledge based vs skills based workers is underway. Are you positioned to compete effectively?
- Who Has Influence Over Your Career?
[Business:Careers-Employment] Often when one thinks of using influence it's to create a win in a negotiation. I've said in many times, that you are responsible for your career. That point is non-negotiable in today's business environment.
- Does Your Career Passion Scare You?
[Business:Careers-Employment] For some, passion can be scary. It can feel like losing control, at the whim of a new trend or at the mercy of the prevailing winds. For others, passion brings energy, excitement and possibility! It's all in how you use it - for ultimately you own and control your passion.
- Are You a Career Mover and Shaker?
[Business:Careers-Employment] No one else can sell you the way you can! Therefore, how do move your career ahead and shake things up? It's time to take it on!
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