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Informational Interviews: Not Just For Rookies

Let's Grow Leaders

A common misconception is that “Informational Interviews” are only for folks starting out in their career. Sure informational interviews are a great idea for the new college grad, but they can be game-changing later in your career as well. Tips For Conducting a Great Informational Interview. Both were worth the effort.

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Talent Identification and Management

Career Advancement

For instance, if one of their goals is to expand their understanding of the daily responsibilities of your company’s executive team, create an opportunity for them to shadow you or another company leader so they can gain insight into whether an executive career path could be a good fit for them.

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Expecting the Worst vs. Preparing for the Best

International Coach Academy

This proclivity to ‘attend to, learn from and use negative information far more than positive information [2] is referred to as Negativity Bias and explains the human tendency to focus on and respond more to undesirable events and stimuli.

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Sticky vs. Step

International Coach Academy

Our thinking, beliefs, and past experience inform but do not fully describe us, as we are beings capable of learning, stretching, and becoming. Unlike information, knowledge involves us and our deeper motivations and dynamics as human beings. In this way, through our construction, information becomes knowledge. Reflection.

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Trust and Employee Engagement: Building the Foundation for Organizational Success

Vantage Circle

– Seth Godin I’m sure many of you have witnessed this scenario or experienced it themselves: When team members trust each other, their communication enhances, as they become more transparent with the information, believing that everyone has the right to know.

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Approach Differently vs. Avoid Again

International Coach Academy

Over the long term though, we know that what we avoid, doesn’t really disappear, but sits like a shadow beside us, causing suffering – “avoidance in facing our emotional experience can negatively impact our mental health and behaviours” [iii]. problem-solving or seeking information)” [xii].

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Put Your C.A.P On: Heroes and Villains vs. Being Humain

International Coach Academy

It allows us to make sense of a situation and decode it to inform our behaviors and our perspective of ourselves. Pick the perspective : He shifted from “I am the villain” to “I am somewhat of a newbie,” and he decided to ask for more shadowing and help from his colleagues.

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