Posts Tagged ‘job’

Asking For Help

Tuesday, March 19th, 2019

If your volition is simply to get acquainted or catch up with someone, when your real intent is to elicit their help to improve your condition (find a job, raise money, obtain an introduction), you better change your mindset. Listen with obvious interest. Pose brief, intelligent questions that invite the other party to reveal themselves. Spot opportunities for reciprocal benefit. Be clear and precise about the help you seek. Agree time and date for follow up. Be memorable and someone they’d be keen to meet again.

Sounds simple? Most people don’t do this well and in return, receive little or no commitment from most of those individuals they ask.

Trapped

Monday, October 22nd, 2018

There are two forms of “entrapment”, physical and virtual. “Physical”, in the sense of the car being caught up in a traffic jam with nowhere to turn on a highway or motorway. “Virtual”, in the sense of being “stuck” in a lousy investment, business or job. Too often with the latter, I meet individuals where their mind has a vice-like grip on their ability to figure out how to adapt to the prevailing conditions (de-risk, effect change, change accountabilities) or escape entirely to a safer, more positive position. The good news is they can and very often will “escape” but their refusal to seek expert help dramatically prolongs the suffering. Move on!