by Now What?® Coaching Founder, Laura Berman Fortgang Finding yourself losing your satisfaction with your work or feeling like you just can’t motivate yourself the way you used to? Maybe you are even losing steam on a job search. Whatever the scenario, knowing why you are doing something and having a compelling reason to do…
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JUST SAY ‘YES’ AND BEAT THE ODDS
by Now What?® Coaching Founder, Laura Berman Fortgang Weather, global finance, national recovery: It’s such a time of negative, gloomy news that it’s easy to get dragged down. There is plenty of evidence that the gloom and doom is true and may be apt to set your expectations accordingly. But should you? Absolutely not! As…
BORROW FROM THE PAST TO CATAPULT YOUR FUTURE
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…
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…