Spark
Welcome to Spark, our ThoughtLaunch.
We don't want to call it a newsletter. Newsletters tend to be kind of dull and not very newsy at all. We want our words to launch some creative thinking, maybe an "aha!" or two, and perhaps even some chuckles. Welcome. We're glad you're here.
The overall theme of most of our work here will be career management. This is a big topic that includes such subjects as:
- Leadership development
- Career transition and development
- Entrepreneurship
- Selling and marketing
- Intrapreneurship
Within these areas there are tons of sub-topics like personal branding, work/life balance, leadership with heart, and many, many more.
So sit back and enjoy and, we hope, get inspired.
Elizabeth McAloon, CPCC
Etch A Sketch to Oil Painting
Getting beyond "maybe"
 Maybe can be a great place. It's full of possibility, it can feel like there's an escape hatch available at all times. Maybe can also be what holds us back the most.
Take the Etch A Sketch, for example. One of my favorite childhood toys. Full of temporary satisfaction, and a great place to play with maybe. Sometimes we get stuck in the Etch A Sketch place in our lives, carefully keeping one eye on the exit. Etch A Sketch life is a great place to try things on: dating without commitment; temping at a job; renting instead of buying; testing a business instead of truly owning it; dabbling at being leader without claiming it. It can be a valuable place--a testing ground on which to get a sense of what it might be like.
There are deeper Etch A Sketch places, too.
Words to Consider
A ship in port is safe, but that is not what ships are
built for. --Benazir Bhutto
Career Challenge
Do you know that that most sucessful people consciously develop their careers? Curious as to how savvy you are about career development issues?
Take our free Career Challenge assessment to find out just how much you know about career development--and how much you need to learn.
Just for Coaches
Upcoming events
Starting June 13, Elizabeth will be offering a new series of brown-bag teleclasses: "Marketing How-to's for Coaches." Brush up on your promotion skills, learn about new marketing techniques, and find out what will work for you--and what won't.
The one-hour classes will meet at 4:15 pm on six Mondays this summer: June 13 and 27; July 11 and 25; and August 15 and 29. Hope you can join us for this fun and rewarding experience!
For further information on signing up and topics to be discussed, email Elizabeth at information@themcaloongroup.com.
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