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June 2009
You'll Never Walk Alone*Alvah Parker is a Career Coach who works with clients who are ready for a career change either because they are bored in their current job, ready to retire to find more satisfying work, or eager to find their life's calling. She helps her clients find work that is more meaningful and a true reflection of their values and behavioral style. Alvah has developed a unique Value Program designed to uncover the client's strengths, values and style. Another aspect of Alvah's work with clients is finding the client's life purpose. Alvah is an Authorized Life Blueprint® Facilitator and uses Laura Berman Fortgang's Now What? 90 Days to a New Life Direction Program . In addition Alvah offers job search strategy sessions with clients who are changing jobs or have been recently laid off or fired from their jobs. * Title of a song from Carousel by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein Using song titles is just my way of expressing my love of music and musical theater. Each time I come up with a title I rediscover a song I love.
Special Offer for June
"Career Satisfaction doesn't come from what you do. It comes from who you get to be while you're doing it." - Laura Berman Fortgang
Are you working in a job that gives you very little satisfaction? Do you know you need to make a change but something keeps stopping you? The Now What? Program can help you find that new career that will inspire you and motivate you. During the program you will:
Clients who work on this program often find ways to make their current job more interesting and less stressful. As you work on the exercises in this program you learn a lot about yourself and what you want in your work life. Clients use what they learn in the program to enhance their current job. If you are afraid to leave your current job because of the economy, this program will help you to make the best of what you have now and get you ready to move forward when the economy gets better. During the final phase of the Now What? Program you will write a transition plan to go from your current job to a new one. It is up to you to set the time frames. Now is the time to get ready for the turn around that is bound to happen. Be ready! Not sure about the program? Try the Now What? Assessment. This assessment is designed to identify where your blocks are. It will also help to show you where in the Now What? Program you will work on these blocks. The fee for the Now What? Assessment and 45 minutes of coaching time is $99. If after you take this assessment you decide to continue with the Now What? program the whole of your $99 will be deducted from the last month of Now What? coaching. That means the Assessment and 45 minutes of coaching will be free! Get started now! You owe it to yourself to find work that is meaningful, fulfilling and enjoyable. Wake up on Monday morning excited about the prospect of going back to work! Just send an email to asparker@asparker.com with your name, email address and phone number and indicate that you would like to take the Now What? Assessment "When who you are aligns with what you do you'll achieve extraordinary results." - Laura Berman Fortgang Be sure to check other offers for Career Changers.
Table of Contents
1. Welcome
WelcomeRoad to Success is an email newsletter written for those who want to find new ways to approach their work and personal life so that their whole life is more fulfilling and productive. I write this newsletter on topics that I find challenging in my own work-life. As Lily Tomlin says, "The road to success is always under construction." I welcome your ideas and hints too. My vision for this newsletter is that it will be a means for us to learn from each other. While I'd love it if you read every word I write, I know that you are busy, so you skim. To help you do that I plan to keep this paragraph and the one above constant. If you are skimming, just jump to paragraphs three and beyond. This month I started an improv class. Most people who hear I am doing it are surprised. They think I am an unlikely person to be taking improv. It is probably because I have no theatrical aspirations and I am on the quiet nonextroverted side. Over the past 3 or 4 years however I've signed up for 4 different classes. Each time the class was cancelled because not enough people signed up. This time I found an instructor who has a series of classes regularly. The location is about an hour from my home. It is a long drive and the class is 3 hours long but I am committed completing the 5 sessions. My friends call me "gutsy" for doing this. I'm not a huge risk taker so it definitely is a stretch for me. What is the pull? In the Now What? program my clients and I look for interrupted dreams to find the clues for their new career. I was in quite a few plays when I went to camp as a youngster. I loved it! Somehow I never did it after camp - an interrupted dream. I don't remember if I wanted to be an actress but I loved the connection I made with the audience. I feel that same connection when I am coaching. In improv and in coaching there is no script. It's like a verbal dance with the other person. You must always be in the moment, listening carefully to what is being said and then responding in a way that makes it easy for the other person to continue the conversation. It's challenging but fun! Ready for a challenge yourself? I've written an article this month on a possible new model for the workplace of the future. It will challenge you in a new way. I hope you will read it and think about it. Let me know your thoughts on what you believe will be the way we will work in the future. Enjoy the rest of the month of June and for those in the US have a happy 4th of July!
My Best,
The Name of the Game*The New Way of WorkThere are many who are predicting that after this downturn in the economy the workplace will look different from the one we've known. Peter Weddle, a job board expert and writer on career topics sees a workplace with fewer permanent workers. Weddle says that employers are hit with a depressed bottom line as well as rapid changes in customer tastes and needs. To respond to both in a cost effective way these employers see that they will need only a core of full time employees. He says that only the most talented workers will have those full time jobs. Other workers will have short term project assignments and will be hired with the full understanding that the job ends on a particular date or at a specific occurrence. These too will be highly qualified and talented workers but they will have no guarantee from the company of long term employment. If you would like to read the full article entitled Micro Careers you can read it on his website. Use your current job search as a model for the futureThose of you who are unemployed right now are probably groaning at this prediction. Actually however some of the necessary steps in your current job search will help you in the future. The whole job search process is something you will need to get good at. Now is the time to:
What changes will you have to make?How will this change impact you in the future? The majority of workers will have to do many job searches. This may mean having 10-15 job changes over the course of your work life. What will that mean for you in terms of:
While the Weddle article puts these ideas into the present economy, I wrote an article similar to Peter's in 2001 entitled Your Career Is Your Business. You will find it here. We have been moving slowly in this direction for the past 8 or 9 years. The economic downturn and the failure of many large well established companies makes this kind of change even more likely now. The time is right for this new way to work. Will you be ready? * Song from the musical Mama Mia with music and lyrics by Benny Andersson, Bjorn Ulvaeus, Stig Anderson
Some Say*Quotes
Peter F. Drucker
Charles Darwin
Alvin Toffler
Anatole France
William James
Bertrand Russell
W. Edwards Deming
Carl Rogers *Title of a song from Once on This Island by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty
Good News*What's New?1. Interview Confidently - An article I wrote earlier this year was published on the website Business and Job Info. You can read it here. 2. How to Handle a Bad Boss - If you've got one, this Business Week article offers some good advice about working with, around and through the problem. Worth reading even if you have a great boss. Everyone at one time or another gets a boss that is not good for them. Be prepared. You will find the article here. 3. How to Revise Email So People Will Read It - If you are like most of us, you whip off and email in a few seconds never taking the time to reread for tone and proof read. This article gives you tips on how to revise. This is useful if you depend on people to read your email. You will find the article here. 4. Simple ways to donate - No Money involved! - The Hunger Site and the Breast Cancer Site are two websites that allow you to make a donation with the click of your mouse. The hunger site donates a cup of food to the hungry each time you click. The breast cancer site donates one mammogram for each click. No money is involved here. The advertisers pay everything. All it takes is a minute to click. You are allowed to make the donation to each site once every day. 5. Change of Address - Many subscribers change email addresses during the year. I am always delighted when someone requests that I add the new address to my list. Just an additional request - since I like to keep my email list as current as I can, please send me both your old and new address so I can also remove your old address from my list as well. Send changes to asparker@asparker.com 6. Not receiving your newsletter regularly? - Many subscribers have a limited amount of email space provided to them (Yahoo, Juno etc). When you reach the limit you can no longer receive email. Another problem may be sp*m filters. Make sure that asparker@asparker.com appears in your address book to insure delivery. If you do not receive your copy of Road to Success or Parker's Points one month one of these may be the reason why. I never resend the newsletter. I now publish the most current issue on my website http://www.asparker.com/rtscareernew.html * Song title from the musical Good News by Ray Henderson, B.G. Deserve, Lew Brown, Ann Morrison, Linda Michele, Michael Gruber, Wayne Bryan
About Alvah ParkerAlvah Parker is the Career Changers Coach. An award winning Account Executive and Sales Manager for AT&T for 15 years, Alvah has successfully coached others to define and achieve their career goals. At AT&T and now as a coach Alvah uses her knowledge of the work world to help her clients. Alvah is committed to helping her current clients find their life purpose. Once her clients know that purpose they are better able to select a career and job function that expresses that purpose. This leads to more satisfying and meaningful work experience. Alvah specializes in working with people in transition who are interested in exploring new career options. Her coaching helps her clients to get clear about their vision and then design a plan and strategy for the future based on that vision. Alvah coaches her clients over the telephone. This means she can be reached from anywhere in the world. You can reach Alvah at 781-598-0388 or asparker@asparker.com. You can find Alvah on the web at www.careerchangerscoach.com
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