Emotional Intelligence has been a hot topic for some time now. To my mind, this focus on emotional intelligence is recognition that it isn’t just what you can do for your employer that is valuable, but rather how you do it. How you show up for your coworkers, your boss, your direct reports, your customers, your vendors. Today we’ll talk about the competencies and how they connect to your work environment with IQ, EI, and technical expertise.

There are enough books, articles, and blogs on resume writing out there to fill the Empire State Building a few times over. I thought I would boil all of this down to the least common denominator in this week’s podcast episode.

Today’s topic is How to Work Around a Debilitating Boss. Notice that I didn’t call it a Toxic Boss. There’s a fair amount of overlap between what we might call toxic and debilitating. Rather than focus on whether your boss’s behavior is toxic or debilitating, let’s instead focus on bad boss behavior and what to do about it.

One of the things I coach my clients on around the job interview is how to answer the question, “Why should I hire you?” In this podcast episode, I’ll be covering useful tips and strategies when answering questions in job interviews.

This week’s podcast features guest life coach, Jane Springer. Here, we’ll be talking about buffering – that is, the things you do when you should be looking for a new job.

I get a lot of questions about what should, and shouldn’t, be included in a resume. I also see a lot of resumes that include information that shouldn’t be there. Keep in mind that your resume should be a marketing document. You are selling a product, and that product is YOU. Today, we will cover what should ALWAYS be on your resume, NEVER should be on your resume, and what MIGHT be on your resume.

I’ve heard about goals till I’m blue in the face. And the focus is often on SETTING goals, rather than how to actually ACHIEVE them. In this podcast episode, I want to approach this topic from a different angle.

Let’s talk about this topic of providing personal information during a job interview. Different so-called “experts” will have differing opinions about this, but here’s my stance: In short, my answer is YES. But with conditions.

Today, I want to zero in on something I have mentioned in other podcasts. I call this my +1 approach to job boards. In my work with clients, I differentiate between active job search strategies and passive job search strategies. Of course I want my clients to focus on active job search strategies but there is a way to make your passive job search a bit more active, using my +1 approach. This is what we’ll be talking about today.

In today’s episode, I want to talk about when to tell your boss you’re looking for a new job. This topic came from one of my clients, who reached out to ask me this question. There’s isn’t a simple answer, so I want to lay out the considerations for you.

This week’s guest is Mac Prichard, speaking with me about How to Hack the Hidden Job Market. 80% of all jobs are never publicly advertised, but there are ways to access this treasure trove of work opportunities. Mac explains these for us today.

I’ve been thinking a lot about my journey lately. Also, with the new year and new decade, it seems like a good time to reflect. I’ve shared bits and pieces of my life with you over the previous 111 episodes, but I decided to dedicate an entire episode to my story — what I’ve learned and how I’ve grown,–in the hopes that it will inspire you. I’m hoping to pull back the curtain in this episode.

Today, I’m focusing on Active Listening. I think we can all agree that it is important to really listen at work, but maybe you haven’t given much thought to why it’s important. That will be just one of the topics we discuss today.

Last week’s episode was on Active Listening, so today I’ll cover Effective Communication. There are four steps to the communication process; at any point in that process something can go wrong: the words you speak, what you meant by those words, the words the listener heard, and what the listener makes those words mean.

This week, I’m talking about the MBTI, and how to leverage personality differences in the workplace. I created this program as a quick overview of personality and how it plays out in the workplace.

This week, I want to talk about one of my favorite subjects, “Managing Your Mind to Advance Your Career.” I created this program because so many trainings focus on the doing part of managing your career, and I wanted to focus on the thinking part.

I’ve talked in previous podcasts about the three numbers you need to know before you enter into salary negotiations. Today, I want to talk about what you should do BEFORE you get to the negotiation phase.

You’ve probably heard the expression that looking for a job IS a full-time job. But what if you already have a full-time job? The biggest issue I see for people in this situation is the tendency to put their job search on the back burner because they have so many priorities going on at work. Today, I wanted to share strategies for those of you who will be conducting a job search this year while working full-time.

Let’s talk about how to develop the perfect elevator pitch. For those of you who aren’t familiar with the concept, an elevator pitch is your 30-second commercial. The idea is that you could say it going from one floor to the next on an elevator. Your elevator pitch can be used as you introduce yourself at networking events, when you meet people by happenstance, and of course when you are on the elevator.

Carissa and I speak about how to become a fearless speaker. This topic is especially important for women, and Carissa tells us why. She talks specifically about becoming a fearless speaker during job interviews, when giving presentations, and when you are having one-on-one, difficult conversations. She explains how to bring down our anxiety, boost our self-confidence, and be extremely prepared for these conversations.