I recommend conducting informational interviews at every stage of one’s career. Let me rephrase: “Talk to people whose job you find interesting”. One may not want to work in that role right away, but mapping a job’s requirements in terms of skill set and professional stage is helpful.

Creativity has many facets, including mini-c and little-c creativity - ingredients for learning and transformative experiences. At times, a boring corporate setting can make you feel your creativity is dormant. But you can revitalize it!

“Know thyself” is attributed to various Greek philosophers and poets, including to Socrates, the Phemonoe, or Chilon and Thales. Role analysis helps you accelerate this process. You ask yourself which roles you held at age 6, 16, 26, 36 and so on to identify patterns.

A Forbes profile isn’t that complex. By writing a feature about your future professional self, you use your imagination skills to make a career change a reality.

Coach and author Jen Sincero is right: “You have to get good at sales”. I concluded to make this process as enjoyable as possible and use one of my strenghts — networking. It paves the way for creating connections with potential clients before you actually “have to” sell to them. It creates a degree of sympathy and mutuality that makes it easier for them to react positively to your sales pitch.

As part of their research on the psychological reasons of employees’ resistance to change, Harvard professors Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey define “competing commitments” as psychological forces undermining an individual’s efforts to achieve an objective.

My new marketing performance consultant and I had a conversation last week. We both agreed: We have more than one professional identity. Yet, we don’t know how to consolidate these online. How to best achieve this?

An individual who suffers from impostor syndrome is not able to acknowledge his / her hard work and aptitude for a task. Luckily, there are self-coaching tools to overcome this phenomenon.