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From TGIF to TGIM11/9/2018  Congratulations it’s Friday. You made it through the workweek. We find that many professionals are excited about Friday, heck there is even a phrase “TGIF” (Thank God It’s Friday) that is used widely around the world. Friday brings a celebration of sorts that your workweek is over, and you have two days to “recharge”.
Yet, what we find is that rarely do people truly spend the weekend recharging and come Sunday, many of us dread the thought of heading into the office Monday morning. We are burned out, tired and honestly, disengaged from the work we are doing. It’s a recipe of disaster. This was the case for me, Tom Perry, a member of the Thinking People Consulting Collective. I spent years in corporate loving my job, until one day I didn’t. My disengagement snuck up on me and yet, looking back there were signs that I missed that were red flags for my engagement turning to disengagement.
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Case Study: Playing the Long Game5/4/2018  Friday Guest Post By: Tom Perry | Founder of Engaged Pursuit
When you know what you want, sometimes getting there takes time. Staying positive, not giving up, and looking for feedback along the way is key to winning this Engaged Pursuit long game. As highlighted in previous Case Studies, the path to professional engagement takes time. Even with the hot job market (especially in tech), the majority of clients are spending 4-6 months finding something great (not the 2-3 months I originally assumed). What I tell current and potential clients who are wanting change – “Employers are looking for greatness and are picky in their approach– it’s now more important than ever to set-yourself-apart with a crisp, clear, and confident Professional Story.” While most clients take 4-6 months to find a more engaging role, this is the story of Kelly who took over 12 months to land a new gig. She knew what we wanted and stopped at nothing to achieve her goal. Kelly was playing the long game.
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 Hello! We are just ONE WEEK away from our book club with Joshua Miller! Hopefully by now you have purchased the book and have read it (or have plans to read it this week). As we prepare for the upcoming book club, Josh has a message for you all:
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Guest Post By: Tom Perry, Founder, Engaged Pursuit The tech market is hot, but finding an engaging gig takes focus, patience, and positivity. But most importantly it takes hustle. Here’s the story of Ryan’s longer-than-anticipated path. Clients are often surprised when I tell them that finding a new, more engaging role takes time. Sometimes a lot of time. Even in Seattle’s hot tech market (with still over 60 cranes across the skyline), clients quickly learn that the competition is insane and organizations are super-picky. “Finding the right match for you is going to take both time and hustle,” I tell clients. “It’s not going to be easy.” Ryan found that advice spot-on.
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The Freedom to Fail4/4/2018  Guest Post By: Jenna Powers, HR Director at Amazon
I am sitting in the café on the second floor of Amazon’s Doppler building, craning my neck, looking for a vantage point where the Seattle sun isn’t glaring so badly against my tablet screen and I can read what I’m typing. My phone is alive next to me, resting on the weather page for Cary, North Carolina. It is 77 degrees in Cary today, but the forecast for Saturday is 43 degrees and snow. I’m running a 100 mile race in Cary on Saturday. Absent lightning or some other real, physical danger to runners, races don’t get canceled. Not even for 43 degrees and snow. But maybe you’re still on the part about running 100 miles. Yes, this is a thing. Yes, I will run and walk for approximately 24 straight hours. No, I won’t sleep in the middle of it. Yes, I will stop and use the bathroom. Yes, I will eat real food, but on my feet while moving. No, I’m not happy about the weather forecast.
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Spring Cleaning Takes on a New Meaning3/30/2018  Guest Post By: Vaishali Jadhav
Facilitator, The Center for Professional Education at The University of Texas at Austin President, Conscious Capitalism, Austin, Texas This week is my birthday! If you know me, you know I LOVE my birthday. I have lived a very blessed life with the most amazing people around me and to spend this time feting them is an honor. Because my birthday is in March, spring cleaning takes on a new meaning as it’s a time for physical cleaning and deep reflection. When cleaning a year ago at this time, I came across a file folder that would change the course of the next year. This file folder was filled with thank you notes from people who had written to me when I was teaching leadership classes at Whole Foods Market. I had recently taken a different job within the organization that didn’t require me to teach, so this folder was buried under a pile papers. I sat down and read a few of them when a feeling of complete dread came over me. While I was working at a company that I loved, I wasn’t doing a job that I loved. That evening, I shared this experience with a good friend. She wisely asked, “If you had a job where a person would write you a thank you note, wouldn’t you do that job every day?”.
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 Guest Post By: Jenna Powers
Director, HR at Amazon What would you do if you knew you would fail? You read that right. What would you do if you knew you would fail? This past weekend was the 22nd running of the Barkley Marathons, a 100 mile race in northeastern Tennessee that likely first reached those outside the ultra running world with the documentaries Where Dreams Go to Die and The Race That Eats Its Young. I won’t detail all the race quirks in this post (you can read more about it here); the most important thing to know is that this race is hard. Far more difficult than a standard 100 mile race, of which there are dozens in the US and globally every year. In 22 years, the Barkley has been completed just 18 times. Given the number of entrants each year (a process which is tightly controlled; the race is extremely difficult to get into), that means there is a 2.5% finishing rate. That means some years there are no finishers. 2018 was one of those years.
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I call bullshit.3/27/2018  Author: Joshua Miller New Book: I Call Bullshit: Live Your Life not Someone Else's Announcing Thinking People Consulting's first book club. Date: Monday, April 30, 2018 from 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM PST Registration Information I hope this note finds you well! Wait, I take that back. I hope this finds you more than well. I hope you’re living a life that’s both fulfilling and full of joy because you’ve shaped it by making choices in tune with who you truly are as your most authentic self. Is that not the case? Are you actually doing things the way you think you should be doing them rather than how you want to be doing them? Guess what? You’re not alone—the bulk of your team is feeling that same nagging feeling of there has to be more than this, and they want answers.
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Design Thinking for Your Life3/23/2018  Guest Post By: Dorothy Mankey
Founder, Coreisma Consulting Recently I came upon a concept I can’t stop thinking about. I had participated in a design thinking workshop called “Designing Your Life” developed by Stanford professors Bill Burnett and Dave Evans. Their goal was to teach participants how to use design thinking to create a life that is both meaningful and fulfilling, regardless of who or where we are, what we do for a living, or how old we are. If you’re not familiar with design thinking, it is a process and a way of thinking about tough-to-solve problems. Design thinking draws upon empathy, logic, imagination, intuition and an iterative approach to explore possibilities of what could be — and to create desired outcomes that benefit the user. Design thinking requires you to leverage the following key elements:
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