Category Archives: Careers Column

a series of essays, commentary, opinions, roasts and research on all matters relevant to careers, career development, job hunting, psychology and all that jazz

Protected: Webinar 5 Coaching with the Chaos Theory of Careers: using stories, narratives and plots

Webinar 5 was first broadcast on 6th/7th September 2012.  Here is the recording of that session. Handout is here Webinar-5-Stories-handout A paper by us on Narrative is here Archetypal naratives inn career counselling- a chaos theory application Pryor Bright IJEVG 2008 Background papers on Narrative by Dave Snowden Snowden on story narrative patterns-perils and possibilities_final Narrative Research Snowden FINAL LINK TO ...

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How to use the Exploring Chaos Reality Checklist – Webinar 2 in Coaching for Change using Chaos

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How to use the Exploring Chaos Reality Checklist - Webinar 2 in Coaching for Change using Chaos is the next webinar in the series. It will be first broadcast live on July 19 (North America, UK, EIRE, Europe) and July 20 in Australia and other Asian/Australasian countries.  However you can always access a recording of ...

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Goals are not enough for success in a Chaotic world

Goals are promoted as the way to success in many coaching, counseling and training situations. Goals are not enough for success in a Chaotic world is the title of my latest youtube video embedded here. The world changes, you change, change is inevitable except from a vending machine.  The point of this video is to overcome ...

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22 effective Coaching Questions: Pixar’s 22 Rules of Story Telling Applied to Coaching

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Coaching can benefit from animation company Pixar and their rules of story telling.  Pixar has 22 rules of story telling, according to David Price, the author of Pixar Touch - see his blog here. He gleaned these rules from the tweets of Emma Coats, a Pixar storyboard artist. I think they can be usefully ...

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