Dear Readers, I just have to share this current scenario with you. Last week one of my career coaching clients, in search of new and better employment, received a good job offer. It was good, but not great. But he didn't want to risk losing the offer and was afraid that [...]
Dear Coach Joan, I've just accepted my first role as a manager after years of being an individual contributor . Any tips on how to do a great job? How do I best on-board my new employees for a great working relationship? Are there best practices in bringing out the [...]
Marge Margulies in her Guernville studio (top) Marge's exhibit at The American Craft Council Show, Baltimore (middle) and Marge out standing in her field (bottom image) Local Career Story #3 MARGE MARGULIES: A Nationally Recognized Ceramic Artist, Here in Sonoma County Little did I know when I received a fruit bowl [...]
Dear Coach Joan, I'm afraid I'm going to lose my job. It's not working out with my new manager. I didn't choose him and he didn't choose me. When my former manager left, the company decided to bring in someone from the outside, presumably to inject new ideas. But all he seems to [...]
Local Career Story #2: Jenna Cook From Tortes to Torts Cake Caterer to Paralegal Jenna Cook has always been a problem solver. Growing up in Southern California, loving the surf and sand, she was captured by the importance of the environmental movement. She wanted to study to be an [...]
1. Breathe life into your interview: Strategically delve into your past successes and develop stories and interesting anecdotes, with details, to make your capabilities come alive and become memorable. Practice delivering these stories and highlight the skills they demonstrate that relate to the position you are applying to. 2. Use props: Bring something [...]
Sonoma County through the lens of Silicon Valley Profile #1: Will Bucquoy, photographer “Photography is not a job. I’m telling stories in a single image and I love it.” – Will Bucquoy. The photographer doesn’t realize it but I’m seeing him through a lens of my own -- a Silicon [...]
Hi Joan, I am 50-something and have always been interested in farm life. I am currently enrolled at Sierra College for a degree in sustainable agriculture. I have been a secretary since I graduated secretarial school in 1978 . I have been a legal secretary for the past 27 [...]
Yes, Joan, you're not in Silicon Valley anymore. What if I showed you Sonoma County through Silicon Valley eyes? I realize in starting this third year as a Santa Rosan that I'm choosing to stay close to home to enjoy my “Sonoma County lifestyle.” I am crazy about the [...]
Yes, this is an awfully large image, isn't it? And it really gets your attention. Good. That's my intention. Because the two magic words in career success have a lot to do with attention-getting. And I don't mean the kind of attention you get by wearing bright colors. I mean the [...]
Joan Tabb is founder of Greatin8Coaching.com and brings a corporate leadership background to her work. She is author of Great in 8: Job Seeking Skills and Building Blocks for the NEW Retirement. An expert in managing life transitions, she is a sought-after career and executive coach, trainer and speaker. Her new program, Revitalment! is reinvigorating boomers’ retirement paradigm. Formerly she served in training, marketing and communication leadership roles in Silicon Valley, including Apple, 3Com ,Intel, Memorex and several start-ups..
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