Day: October 11, 2016

Where Fear Lives

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Too often, people keep yielding ground to their fears until their universe becomes tiny. What we do you to give into fear?

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What’s scaring you? What’s keeping you from having the life that you want?

How did you find yourself in your current circumstances where you know you could be doing things differently, know you could be more effective and know you could have a happier career/relationship/life … Whatever it is. What’s keeping you playing smaller. Let’s see where your fear is?

Fear often shows up in very subtle ways. I was in class last night and we were talking about fear. I kept feeling this knot in my body as I was consciously thinking about being afraid.

I could see how, at times, it is kept me from being effective. At times, it has kept me from being successful and encouraged me to play safe, like staying in the comfort zone.

The comfort zone is OK but, frankly, in my mind, I want to be expanding mine.  Don’t you? Don’t you want to start moving up against your fear and moving outward so you not as confined in a small place as you might currently be?

There was a story I heard many years ago in my early involvement with the mankind project that involves lions hunting gazelle. The story starts off with the fact that Giselle are much faster than lions have created a system to hunt them. Even old lions are involved in the hunt.

As the story goes, old lions hide in the place where they cannot be seen and the young lions chase the gazelle in the direction of the old lions. Just at the point that the gazelle are right up on top of the old lions, they stand up and roar powerfully. The gazelle are terrified and turn around and run right back into the teeth of the young lions who kill them and eat them. If the gazelle and run in the direction of the roar, they would easily outrun the old lions and lived. Instead their fear because there death.

Where are you turning around and running away from your fear and into the teeth of mediocrity, being ordinary and settling for less in your life?

Often the best way to get through this is with coaching. I’d love to coaching but if you prefer, there are wonderful people out there who, I’m sure, can help you as well.

If you’re interested in my coaching you, Reach out to me by email at TheBigGameHunter@gmail.com

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Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter has been coaching people to play their professional and personal games BIG for what seems like 100 years.

For more No BS Coaching Advice and encouragement, visit my website.

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Originally recorded as a Facebook Livestream

What Is Your Management Style?

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Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter. explains how to answer this deceptively difficult question “What is your management style?”

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I’m back today with another one of those tough interview questions that’s designed to make you sweat bullets–today is question is, “Oooooooooooh! Today’s question is, “What is your management style?”

In the US, this has a very simple answer to it. Sometimes people get nervous, though, because it’s an interview, it’s important, it’s their career and they have to get it right. They can’t mess up. They get serious and thus don’t show their personality.

Here’s the correct answer. Let’s work with the premise that you have an idea of the management style of the organization that you’re interviewing with. If you don’t, this generic answer that I’m going to give you will be very effective because, in the US, this is generally what firms look for. The first thing you say is that you are results-oriented. You’re good at solving problems. You can take on the task and figure out what needs to be done. Results-oriented indicates that you are used to getting bottom-line results. You’re very good at getting results from the team. You’re good at getting results from the organization, giving service to people, so that in this way they are able to get what they expect of you.

Finally, in the US, they like to see that you have a participative style. It’s like, “I have an open door policy in my organization.” Talk about a participative management style but also talk about limitations. Every good manager sets limits to the degree to which they are willing to have an open door style.

Recognize that each of these is going to involve the story. For example, results-oriented requires that you tell a story about how you got bottom-line results. If you say that your task oriented, talk about problems that you solve. For participative style you talk about how having an open door policy at your organization allows you to head off problems, help solve them or teach people to solve their own problems so that, in this way, your group got results.

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Do you think employers are trying to help you? You already know you can’t trust recruiters—they tell you as much as they think you need to know to take the job they after representing so they collect their payday.

The skills needed to find a job are different yet complement the skills needed to do a job.

Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter has been a career coach and recruiter for what seems like one hundred years.

JobSearchCoachingHQ.com changes that with great advice for job hunters—videos, my books and guides to job hunting, podcasts, articles, PLUS a community for you to ask questions of PLUS the ability to ask me questions where I function as your ally with no conflict of interest answering your questions.

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When NOT to Submit Your Resume – Job Search Radio

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Too often, people do dumb unthinking things in their job search. They call Monday morning at 7:30 AM expecting to reach someone and ask, “So what’s going on?” Probably not much different than Friday afternoon when you last called.

On this podcast, I discuss a mistake they job hunters make – – submitting their resume at the wrong time. I hope you aren’t making this mistake, but if you are STOP IT!

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Do you think employers are trying to help you? You already know you can’t trust recruiters—they tell as they think you need to know to take the job they after representing so they collect their payday.

The skills needed to find a job are different yet complement the skills needed to do a job.

Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter has been a career coach and recruiter for what seems like one hundred years.

JobSearchCoachingHQ.com is there to change that with great advice for job hunters—videos, my books and guides to job hunting, podcasts, articles, PLUS a community for you to ask questions of PLUS the ability to ask me questions where I function as your ally with no conflict of interest answering your questions.

Connect with me on LinkedIn