by Now What?® Coaching Founder, Laura Berman Fortgang For at least two years, I have been seeing a pattern in career transition clients that has confirmed a theory that I have relied on for a long time. It seemed that every time a client was really at a standstill in the progress of their career…
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What Language Do You Speak?
by Now What?® Coaching Founder, Laura Berman Fortgang Spanish? French? Arabic? German? Those are not the languages I am looking for when I ask what language do you speak? I am wondering if you up-language or down-language when you write or speak about yourself. By that, I mean do you undersell, oversell or get it…
What “I Don’t Know” Really Means
by Now What?® Coaching Founder, Laura Berman Fortgang “But I don’t know what I want to do!” “I don’t know, I don’t know, I don’t know!” “If only I knew what ‘IT’ was that I was supposed to do!” I’ve heard all of these statements and more from seminar participants and clients. That overwhelming, anxiety-producing,…
CUT OUT THE MIDDLE STEP
by Now What?® Coaching Founder, Laura Berman Fortgang Four years ago, at a bookstore event, a woman asked a question about a career strategy she was hatching. Her goal was to become a global director for the multinational company she worked for. Her question was about her next move to attain an interim position that…
REINVENTION: LESS ABOUT ADDITION AND MORE ABOUT SUBTRACTION
by Now What?® Coaching Founder, Laura Berman Fortgang We are clearly in the Age of Reinvention. So many industries are doing complete makeovers of themselves and some are even disappearing. The result: Those wanting to stay or become employed have to reinvent right alongside this trend or be closed out or left behind. Publishing, automotive,…
STRETCH TO REACH YOUR DREAMS
by Now What?® Coaching Founder, Laura Berman Fortgang It’s that time of year, resolutions and new goals being set to make a leap into a new annum. A time of reflection and renewed hope. Nothing new to the person in career transition . Renewing hope is a daily, if not weekly occurrence in that case. As…