Inspired Choice

Breakthrough to Career Joy

Are you a woman leader who feels depleted by your work, especially in these uncertain times?
Do you worry about your employees' mental health and well-being? 

Do you tolerate and sacrifice for the sake of others?
Perhaps you put others first ahead of your health, spirituality and desires!

 

Breakthrough to Career Joy!
Sign up for your complimentary 50-minute phone session here!

In this call you will:

• Identify your true desires for your career in the next 1-3 years,
• Assess your current situation and get clear on the top 2 or 3 obstacles standing in your way,
• Identify the most powerful actions that will move you towards being more deeply satisfied,
• Determine if you need help taking action and how I might help, and
• Complete our call knowing what to do next to reclaim or reshape work you love and get your career joy back!

 

If you are ready to create lasting change and feel fulfilled by your work...

If you are truly ready to commit to yourself and prioritize your needs...

And you are willing to invest physically, emotionally and financially in YOUR career and life joy, email me for this private phone session. 

 

Gail Sussman-Miller

Chief Obstacle Buster, Owner and Founder of Inspired Choice

Emergency "Roadside Career Assistance"

Wherever you are in the process, Gail can help and will meet you where you are!  

Whether you are new to job search after 20+ years or re-evaluating your career direction, feel stuck, unmotivated or can't stay on track, Gail can provide guidance, training, support, accountability and inspiration to take brave action and stay on course til you land.

Sometimes you need a lot of help in your job search or finding career direction. Sometimes you only need a little.  

• You may need to take your career into the shop for diagnostics and a complete overhaul (SEE BELOW). 
• Maybe you just have a flat tire and need roadside assistance.

• Is new to job search after 20+ years or using old methods that aren't working?
• Feels stuck, stalled, unmotivated or you can’t stay on track?
• Wishes you had guidance, inspiration, support and accountability to stay in action?
• Is uncomfortable selling yourself and not sure what to say? 
• Doesn't like or feel comfortable networking (which should be 70% of your efforts!)

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For laser focused short-term help, discover the "Emergency Roadside Assistance" sessions Gail offers for specific help in one skill area to get your job search or career change engine back on the road. These sessions offer immediate, ready-to-go mindset shifts and practical, tactical steps you can take to be more effective at taking brave career action!

Choose one or more 1-hour sessions to get laser-focused training and coaching. RECOMMENDATION: "bookend" 2 sessions so you can go out and apply your new skills after Session 1, then in Session 2, debrief your results, lock in your successes, address remaining challenges, and fine tune your approach.

Get 10% off when you sign up for 2 sessions! 
Change the quantity in the shopping cart to 2 or more and enter coupon code "10% saving" and then click "APPLY!"

Need a general overview on your career direction?
Is this your first job search or your first search in this new social media tight market?
Need a road map? Gail can be your career mechanic!

Emergency Roadside Assistance - Career
Have you been thinking about making a change in industries or functional areas and don't know where to start?
Are you looking to get off the career ladder and return to a sole contributor role?
Do you feel restless and unmotivated to do the work you've always done?

One 1-Hour Career Session - $250    

 

Would welcome encouragement, a plan, tools, techniques and structure to find a better job sooner? - See more at: http://www.inspiredchoice.com/#sthash.3oCThlk2.dpuf

Emergency Roadside Assistance - Networking
Do you feel uncomfortable and don't like networking? Just having a lot of nice coffees but no results?
Want to be more effective online and off connecting with others and asking for what you need?

One 1-Hour Networking Session - $250  

 

Emergency Roadside Assistance - Interviewing

Looking for help to make you more effective in telling your story, feeling confident?
Would you like to create an engaging conversation vs. being interrogated and be consultative during interviews?

One 1-Hour Interviewing Session - $250  

Emergency Roadside Assistance - How to Ask for Help
Want to reduce the "yuck factor" most job seekers feel about asking for introductions
and assistance with your job search? Want to learn how to ask for help with ease?

One 1-Hour Asking for Help Session - $250  
 

 

For deeper guidance, you may be interested in Gail's "starter coaching program" for executives in job search or seeking career changes who have these needs:

• How to decide what you WANT to do in your next role vs. what you CAN do in your career. Follow your passion! You will show up differently while networking and in interviews and you will be more motivated.
  
• You don't like and don't do enough networking, are shy, or are not sure how to make it productive and more comfortable. Lots of job seekers have nice conversations and gallons of coffee without results.
• How to ask for help and introductions without feeling needy, greedy, imposing or looking helpless. This one critical job search and career change investigation technique can lead to uncovering hidden opportunities.
• You lack confidence and motivation after a layoff, a bad experience, or a prolonged period of unemployment or underemployment. You need to rebuild, regroup and get grounded in how wonderful you and your talent is so you interview well.

 

What step would you take TODAY if you were brave?

Find out how to reduce the "yuck factor" all job seekers feel about asking for introductions and assistance with their search.  Overcome feeling needy, greedy, or selfish! - See more at: http://www.inspiredchoice.com/#sthash.3oCThlk2.dpuf

Boost career success! Ask for help with ease!

What if you could learn to ask for help with greater ease and
boost your comfort by 1-5 points in one hour?!

The good news is people want to help you!
When you ask, you usually receive!

 

"Ask for Help with Ease...  by Taking Your Self Out of the Formula"

How comfortable and confident are you with asking for help in your career? On a 1-10 scale, where 10 is highest, where would you rank your comfort level? Do you often feel needy, greedy, helpless or selfish? What if you could learn to ask for help with greater ease and boost your comfort by 1-5 points in an hour?! Well, you can! 

Asking for introductions and advocacy from your contacts and people you don't know (yet) is a critical step in networking and in support of your career.

Learn how to help to the 3^rd power --- Help³
Help your supporters so they help you so you can help others!

 

Email Gail to learn more  

Learn how to create a perspective shift that will bring you the results and CAREER JOY you seek!

Gail Sussman-Miller is the Chief Obstacle Buster at Inspired Choice. She is a master at creating mindset shifts that are inspiring as well as practical. Gail will help you:

• reframe your thinking and assumptions about asking for help
• more bravely ask and act for the greater good
• receive immediate practical, tactical steps 
• reduce the "yuck factor" and take brave action with one of your ideal contacts
• shift from feeling needy and greedy to feeling helpful and generous!

 

Change your perspective as easily as you change your socks!

Experience a powerful process that will immediately
increase your confidence and comfort with asking for help 

 

What step would you take TODAY
if you were brave?

 

How to Love Networking for Executives in Career Transition

Step into this picture for a moment… you are about to walk into a networking event, in a room filled mostly with strangers, to get a lead to that elusive ideal job you want.  You are nervous. You are worried about saying the wrong thing.  You hope your breath smells good enough. You hope that you are good enough! Will you do it “right” and finally stop forcing yourself to attend these events to find a job?

 

Does this sound like you?  Notice how this picture makes you feel -- all the pressure and all the rules. Well, relief is in sight.

 

On a scale of 1-10, how much do you love networking?  Yes, love! A ranking of 1 means you’d rather volunteer for a free root canal from a dental intern.  A 10 means you love connecting with people everywhere; standing in line at Starbucks, in an elevator or while sitting in your dentist’s chair!  Write your ranking down now, before you read the rest of this article.  Now, read on.  

 

Raise emotional intelligence for career & business success!

• What if you could reduce or even avoid conflicts at work?
• What if you could elicit more volunteerism, cooperation and collaboration on your team? 
• What might happen if you could better manage emotional "hijacking" due to incidents and respond vs. react?
• Imagine leading tough conversations with employees with less worry, fear and projection.

That is a sampling of the power of emotional intelligence.  Boost your emotional fitness and improve employee relations and performance, career advancement, job search and business development results with help from Inspired Choice and the tools below.

The good news is emotional intelligence can be improved and has a 2:1 success ratio over IQ and technical skills!

 

The following materials are from a workshop on how to leverage and boost emotional intelligence at work delivered to groups and executives by Inspired Choice.  See how Inspired Choice can help you! Contact Gail for ways to tailor this to you or your team.

1. What is emotional intelligence? Learn how to boost your success at work
2. The Inspired Choice Emotional Intelligence Model - Your 5 GPS Career Success Tools
   
3. Discover 4 tools to improve work relationships and self-regulation:
   • Tool #1:  Write your Owner's Manual to discover how you operate best
   • Tool #2:  Me vs. Them 
   • Tool #3:  Conflict Management Worksheet
   • Tool #4:  Designing Alliances
4. Learn 10 secrets to boost your emotional intelligence you can put into action today
5. Get the expanded 10 secrets now in a 44-page eBook. Get your copy below. 
6. Evidence that emotional intelligence makes a difference-- participant learning!
7. Fear-driven behaviors listed by Marshall Goldsmith as 20 bad habits impeding success.

 

Feedback on workshops and training on emotional intelligence:

One fan said of Gail's workshops and exercises says, "Gail, you are so good at making intellectual connections, recognizing patterns and seeing and being open to possibilities. I'm always struck by the apparent ease with which you create simple and powerful exercises - elegant, strength-based solutions that help people address their challenges.  I'm certified to administer and interpret two EI instruments, and though I like the insights they offer, the support material addressing the "so now what?" question has, in my opinion, been lacking. Your exercises move the issue from an intellectual concept to real life examples that people can grab onto and do something with." Candace Thompson, PCC

These materials were shared at a workshop on how to leverage and boost emotional intelligence at work for the Association Forum.  In just one hour, the 45 association professionals in the room experienced first-hand a before-and-after review of one of their own challenging, conflict situations. They learned new approaches by using emotional intelligence tools and skills. Now you can learn to make your work relationships better and even more fun, too.

As one participant said about this training and knowledge, "Gail shares herself with the group in a very clear manner.  Great vibe!" "I will incorporate into my daily life, personal and professional [the practical tips].  I will listen better, not take things personally, not act in fear.  I'll be clear about what I want, take responsibility, and discuss issues using EQ (emotional intelligence)."  Mary T. Markovich

Secret tool for career and business success -- FREE offer!

Mindfulness and self-awareness are age-old practices that can change your career or business.  As an executive, you have so many competing priorities, work and life decisions and choices... at times is seems like a lot of noise.

I'm here to share a habit I began in the summer of 2012 that has made a big impact in my life and that of my clients... MEDITATION!  Now if you are thinking, "I can barely sit still for 5 minutes much less have a calm, quiet mind" you are speaking my language!  I had the same thoughts and resistance for years.

THEN... I found Headspace.

FINALLY!  An answer even for overactive minds like mine and yours! 

Read on for a free offer for a 15-minute call to get a dose of bravery and awareness from Gail, your Chief Obstacle Buster and executive career coach!