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Building Resilience to Navigate Change with Dr. Steve Yacovelli

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He’s worked internally for folks like the Walt Disney Company, IBM, Tupperware brands and several universities before starting his own consulting firm, TopDog Learning Group in 2008. We focus on leadership and organizational development, which kinda makes sense, a leadership dude. So I’ve been in this space for quite a bit of time.

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Five tips for asking better questions | Penelope Trunk's Brazen.

Penelope Trunk

It’s the best way to have a meaningful conversation and it’s the best way to rope in a mentor or look like a star performer. As my career shifts, I find that the key to keeping the shift moving in a productive way is to ask good questions. Anyway, I wouldn’t say redecorating is a career change, but maybe just a vocation vacation.

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How to do damage control | Penelope Trunk's Brazen Careerist

Penelope Trunk

Also, I've written a lot about how career change goes better when you can create a story of your life that shows the upcoming change is the next logical step. Also no chance to develop coping skills and/or resilience. This research comes from INSEAD.) " I couldn't agree more P! Enjoy your stick.

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My birthday post | Penelope Trunk's Brazen Careerist

Penelope Trunk

Try to be funny, even if you're not, March 2008 It took me so long to realize that I have Asperger Syndrome. P.S. One of my mentors used to say "anything worth doing is worth doing 'badly'!" That's how I know that history will mark gen -X as the real revolutionaries of this era.

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Frugality is a career tool | Penelope Trunk's Brazen Careerist

Penelope Trunk

I was interested in starting a fitness blog, a technical software blog, a personal development blog and a general personal blog 2 years ago. Lots of job and career changes. One could say that your endless pursuit of career flexibility has paradoxically had the opposite effect in your life. Not to dis you, though.

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BNET Column: Forget the job hunt. Have a baby instead. | Penelope.

Penelope Trunk

And they want to continue developing skills even though they are not employed. Second-choice escape from reality: Travel, which is not as valuable to your personal development as holding down a job. There is a huge uptick in the number of grad school applications during a recession, but grad school is a lame way to dodge a recession.

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