Inspired Choice

Make an inspired choice to achieve career joy!

I work with women leaders who feel depleted
by the work they do and
who have lost their career joy.

I help them reclaim work they love and get their joy back!

 Hi! I'm Gail Sussman-Miller of Inspired Choice. I'm an expert at helping women achieve career joy by understanding and leveraging their emotional intelligence; an oft hidden and misunderstood tool. 

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How will YOU achieve CAREER JOY in 2018?

2018 will be different. Why?

 

2018 is the year of women!  

• Momentum is building for social change and increased spiritual Consciousness
• Women are leading the way as more and more women…
  • Speak up, step into leadership roles, run for office
  • Leave restrictive limiting jobs, choose purpose-filled work, start businesses
  • Help create cultures where it is safe to be who you really are!

2018 is the year of life! Life, in Hebrew, is “Chaim” which has the numeric value of 18! This only happens once every 100 years.

 “To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.” Kofi Annan

"2018-- Your Daily Planner for Conscious Living!"

"If you’re like me, you resist the confines of time and space! Marianne Williamson says 'We are all spiritual beings having a human experience.'  How can you best balance your Earthly limitations and responsibilities with your true spirit’s desires?" Gail Sussman-Miller, Chief Obstacle Buster of Inspired Choice

Manage your time, energy and competing responsibilities by purchasing your planner (COMING SOON!) 

How is this planner different? Check out details here. Make the most of your year with:

• Year, month and weekly planning pages to help you break big goals into daily action steps
• Guidance to be more proactive and deliberate with plans so you get the most reward for time spent
• Inspiring quotes to raise your awareness and remind you of what really matters
• Monthly and weekly prompts so you choose doable small action steps and learn what works best for you
• Reduce overwhelm by consciously managing your P.I.E.S. (*Physical Intellectual Emotional Spiritual) energy levels so you chose well among competing priorities and
• Get things done with a new habit of “Power Hours” to take brave action!

 

Purchase your planner here for $18 (Coming SOON!)

 

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I work with women leaders who feel depleted
by the work they do and who have lost their career joy.

I help them reclaim work they love and get their joy back!

 The secret is boosting emotional and social intelligence!

I'm Gail Sussman-Miller. I'm an expert at helping women achieve career joy by understanding and leveraging their emotional intelligence; an oft hidden and misunderstood tool.  We start by improving your mindset, assumptions and thoughts and then we layer on practical, tactical techniques through small steps.

I help you take brave inspired action, turn career and life obstacles into opportunities, and tap into positive perspectives using a holistic, mission-driven approach. YES! You can have more success, less stress and greater career joy in a surprisingly short time!

What step would you take today
if you were brave?

Get a boost of inspiration in a short video from Gail!

 

Sign up for your free worksheet, "How to Create Your Elevator Speech." Learn to confidently describe who you work with and the outcomes you deliver, without using a job title, and why that's important!  Be specific, memorable and referable in one sentence! Name Email

Boost your emotional intelligence with a no-cost eBook to improve your effectiveness in business and personal relationships here.

Gain confidence networking with 10 how to love networking tips here.

Improve your public speaking and find your target audience with an audio here.

In work I do with small companies, I help improve employee engagement, performance and profit by reaching better solutions sooner through clear, clean communication. How? I teach leaders to be mission-driven, authentic and transparent.

• Improving habits of thought, therefore beliefs, emotions, choices, action and results
• Boosting emotional intelligence to reduce conflict, cope with challenges, improve decision-making
• Increase comfort and confidence with tough talks like performance issues/reviews, retirement, exits
• Leveraging strengths instead of trying to fix weaknesses 
• Identifying and applying natural existing success formulas
• Being mission-driven creating meaning and money

 

Peek inside! Inspired Choice 2018 Planner

 

Here's help to manage your time, energy and competing responsibilities!
Get the most of 2018!

 

2018 -- Your Planner for Conscious Living
by Inspired Choice 

  If you’re like most of us, you resist the confines of time and space! Marianne Williamson says “We are all spiritual beings having a human experience.”

How can you best balance your Earthly limitations and responsibilities with your true spirit’s desires? 

 

 Purchase your inspirational 2018 planner for $18 here!

 

 How is this planner different? Let's look at some of the features! 

Reduce overwhelm.  Manage your P.I.E.S.* energy so you choose well among competing priorities (*Physical Intellectual Emotional Spiritual)	Get things done with a new habit of undistracted, well-planned, highly-effective “Power Hours” to take brave action!
	Year, month and weekly planning pages to help you break big goals into daily action steps
	Guidance to be more proactive and deliberate with plans so you get the most reward for time spent
	Inspiring quotes to raise your awareness and remind you of what really matters Weekly prompts so you choose doable small action steps
	Week-ending probing questions to celebrate wins and learn how you can improve

   Purchase your copy today for $18 by clicking here!

Career Desire on Fire; Look, Land, Launch!

Are you a woman who...

• Feels stuck coasting and doing work that no longer satisfies you, waiting to be inspired to make a change?
• Is not clear on what you really WANT to do vs. settling for what you CAN do?
• Hasn't been in a job search in years and isn't sure how to search in this tighter new market?
• Hates networking even though it's an integral part of job search?
• Lacks confidence, comfort and effective messages to promote your skills and the outcomes you can deliver?
• Relies on online job openings and wants to leverage advocates and find hidden opportunities?

 You've come to the right place!

This program is customized to match your needs for inspired thinking,
clarify what you truly WANT, and includes repeatable successful strategies and systems.

The result is you shorten your job search and do it with more ease!

Gail Sussman-Miller, of Inspired Choice, specializes in helping you choose positive empowering mindsets first
THEN layer on practical, tactical techniques and take brave action

 

The Inspired Choice "Career Desire on Fire" Program
LOOK, LAND, LAUNCH!
Receive perspectives, techniques and a plan of action for a successful approach

• SEARCH FOUNDATION. Clarity on who you really are, what you really want, your direction, mission, motivation, mindset, and what you have to offer.
  • Job search is a huge opportunity to reassess and tweak your career direction and to be deliberate in your choices.
  • If you've been laid off or doubt your value to an employer, build or re-build confidence and build emotional strength and resilience to weather external influences.
    
  • Establish supportive search habits: commitment and management of job search time, getting organized, follow-up, tracking, and systems to make search steps repeatable. "Homework" to put learning into action, create accountability, fine-tune your approach, and integrate new ways of thinking and behavior.
    
• LOOK! Marketing YOU using a targeted search strategy based not only on probabilities but also possibilities. We will identify target markets, design your reputation (brand), articulate the value you bring, ways to promote YOU, leverage LinkedIn, learn to sell without selling so self-promotion and networking is easier without the "ick factor" and develop interviewing mindsets that are so strong you show up more powerfully and naturally.
  
• LAND! Learn to find inside advocates to help open doors and learn to use a consultative approach to interviews and have powerful conversations that show hiring managers what it will be like to work with you
• LAUNCH! Transition into your new role by setting expectations and pacing for successful first 100 days, without losing your Self or new habits. Maintain all the leadership, strategic, networking, conversation and empowerment skills you learned during your search and apply them in your new role (and other areas of your life for the rest of your life!).

Identify work you really WANT to do
vs. settling for what you CAN do

Reduce your search time,
stay on track with a mission-driven plan,
create clear marketing messages, and
initiate easier more effective conversations in networking,
asking for introductions and interviews

Work only on the mindsets and practical skills you need!

 

Ask Gail for your complimentary "Job Search Wake-up Call"
Email Gail at gail @ inspiredchoice dot com for your confidential call 

Inspired Choice "Career Desire on Fire" for Women includes:

• 2 program choices:
  • a 3-month program with the option to add on more time as needed OR
  • month-to-month ongoing coaching to take you from "looking to landing to launch" for your on-boarding transition
• 3 scheduled phone calls per month of 40-45 minutes to create structure, accountability and momentum
• 15-question Career Desire Questionnaire for both of us to learn what drives and demotivates you, your goals, and big picture desires and roadblocks
• in-person first session for 1.5 hours (or via Zoom) to debrief your Career Desire Questionnaire, establish rapport and see how you present yourself
• a signed agreement to include confidentiality, mutual responsibilities, and to commit to your desire
• celebrations of wins to start all our calls so you learn to measure progress at a granular level and lock in your new success habits
• mutually agreed upon homework at the end of every call so you practice and integrate new habits
• unlimited email contact so you can ask questions, ask for review of your writing, etc.
• BONUS: two 10-minute call per month for emergencies or to prep or debrief interviews, networking meetings, etc.
• BONUS: review and feedback on marketing materials like requests for introductions, cover letters, resume, LinkedIn profile
• BONUS: templates and outlines for networking emails and conversations to save you time
• INVESTMENT in your future is $3,000 for the 3-month program or a 5% savings if 3 months are paid for in advance! Ongoing month-to-month coaching is $1,000 per month with other payment options available.

Gail believes thought is the basis for all results so we start with your thoughts!

Thoughts, become beliefs which influence your feelings which impacts your choices, actions and ultimately, your outcomes!

The Inspired Choice Approach.

Gail customizes her coaching approach to meet you where you are. This is not a cookie cutter step-by-step approach, yet Gail will teach you a way to systematize your activities tailored to your personality and work style.

Whether you have been in your search a long time with disappointing results or you are just starting out and want to maximize your time in this "different" economy and market, working with Gail may be the answer to being more clear on your desires, more brave and more effective. 

Leverage this life-changing opportunity, learn expert methods, gain a sense of purpose and direction, and learn new habits of thinking and acting that last a life time, beyond job search!  Learn how to show up authentically, speak up more powerfully, and move up as a unique, inspired, confident candidate.

Gail's 4-step coaching process helps you:

1. get really clear about what you truly want,
2. break through “yes, but” obstacle thinking to identify options,
3. make an inspired choice, and
4. take brave action..... then, like the shampoo bottle says, we "rinse and repeat!"

 

Ask Gail for your complimentary "Job Search Wake-up Call"
Email Gail at gail @ inspiredchoice dot com for your confidential call

 

Senior Executives in Career Transition - Expert Help is Here!

Wherever you are in your job search process, Gail can help and will meet you where you are!

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

• You may need to take your career into the shop for diagnostics and a complete overhaul.  Get details below!
  
• Maybe you just have a flat tire and need short-term, immediate help. Read about "emergency roadside assistance" here!

 

Are you a senior executive going through career transition and...

• it's your first job search or first-time in this changed market?
• you don't know where to start or how to stay on track?
• you don't know where or how to best network online and off?
• you are not sure you are effective at interviewing?
  
• you are uncomfortable promoting and selling yourself? 
• you are recovering from a layoff, feel resentment or lack confidence

You've come to the right place. Expert help, inspiration, lovingly firm accountability, empowering mindset shifts, concrete practical steps and the bravery to take them, and professional and emotional fitness growth during a time of uncertainty, challenge AND opportunity!

Gail Sussman-Miller, of Inspired Choice, has the answers to the questions above. She teaches you methods for being more effective, confident, authentic and unique, more visible and memorable, and a targeted approach so you shorten your search. Experience more ease, confidence and success.  Your one goal during job search is ALL about having meaningful, productive conversations while networking, asking for introductions, and interviewing.

 

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!)

- See more at: http://www.inspiredchoice.com/#sthash.3oCThlk2.dpuf

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

What is a handbill? Your job search marketing tool

When I first heard the term I thought of the early printed documents that announced a show was in town or the circus!  Well, you are the next best thing to a bearded lady or double-headed tiger… so promote yourself!
 
The use of handbills is not required at ExecuNet or other networking meetings.  Use your judgment on it’s usefulness as a leave-behind after a networking meeting that gives a high-level summary of your work, not your resume… something more functional.  Handbills are as varied as the people who create them. 
 
Continue reading to see and download two very different templates offered by generous ExecuNet attendees!
 

Farewell ExecuNet AND continued career support!

Gail's Farewell to ExecuNet

October 5th was Gail's last meeting as facilitator for Chicago ExecuNet after 7.5 years. Learn more about this decision here.

Gail will continue to support executives on career transition, advancement and direction issues.

She also specializes in helping women at all career levels go after their true desires by making an inspired choice and taking brave action. Gail empowers women to be more assertive, be stronger leaders, ask for help, say "no" by saying "yes, and..." and co-create their next career or business-building move by boosting their emotional intelligence.

Please connect with ExecuNet at http://www.execunet.com for questions about their offerings.

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Leverage Your Built-In GPS to Boost Your Job Search: Emotional Intelligence - See more at: http://gailsussmanmiller.blogs.com/execunet/2013/06/december-19th-execunet-gathering-oakbrook.html#sthash.hSwemRw2.dpuf

WORKSHOP Title: Leverage Your Built-In GPS to Boost Your Job Search: Emotional Intelligence - See more at: http://gailsussmanmiller.blogs.com/execunet/2013/06/december-19th-execunet-gathering-oakbrook.html#sthash.hSwemRw2.dpuf

WORKSHOP Title: Leverage Your Built-In GPS to Boost Your Job Search: Emotional Intelligence - See more at: http://gailsussmanmiller.blogs.com/execunet/2013/06/december-19th-execunet-gathering-oakbrook.html#sthash.hSwemRw2.dpuf

WORKSHOP Title: Leverage Your Built-In GPS to Boost Your Job Search: Emotional Intelligence - See more at: http://gailsussmanmiller.blogs.com/execunet/2013/06/december-19th-execunet-gathering-oakbrook.html#sthash.hSwemRw2.dpuf

WORKSHOP Title: Leverage Your Built-In GPS to Boost Your Job Search: Emotional Intelligence - See more at: http://gailsussmanmiller.blogs.com/execunet/2013/06/december-19th-execunet-gathering-oakbrook.html#sthash.hSwemRw2.dpuf

WORKSHOP Title: Leverage Your Built-In GPS to Boost Your Job Search: Emotional Intelligence - See more at: http://gailsussmanmiller.blogs.com/execunet/2013/06/december-19th-execunet-gathering-oakbrook.html#sthash.hSwemRw2.dpuf

WORKSHOP Title: Leverage Your Built-In GPS to Boost Your Job Search: Emotional Intelligence - See more at: http://gailsussmanmiller.blogs.com/execunet/2013/06/december-19th-execunet-gathering-oakbrook.html#sthash.hSwemRw2.dpuf

WORKSHOP Title: Leverage Your Built-In GPS to Boost Your Job Search: Emotional Intelligence - See more at: http://gailsussmanmiller.blogs.com/execunet/2013/06/december-19th-execunet-gathering-oakbrook.html#sthash.hSwemRw2.dpuf

WORKSHOP Title: Leverage Your Built-In GPS to Boost Your Job Search: Emotional Intelligence - See more at: http://gailsussmanmiller.blogs.com/execunet/2013/06/december-19th-execunet-gathering-oakbrook.html#sthash.hSwemRw2.dpuf

What is your biggest career transition or direction question?!

 

Get inspired and hired with support and tools here!

Emergency Roadside Networking Assistance. If you need a quick shot in the arm to learn how to love networking, be confident in interviews, fine tune your marketing messages, or improve your search results, these laser immediate result one-hour sessions are for you!

Leverage LinkedIn with a high impact private 1-hour virtual training at special rate. Get found! Boost profile, marketing messages and keywords, get inside companies. Make virtual connections more real and more effective.

How to Love Networking CD. Hear 20 tips and mindset shifts to increase your confidence and comfort as you create connection, 1-line elevator speech training, and a reframing process to transfer skills and success from something you love to networking.

Boost Your Emotional Intelligence and Career. Complimentary eBook to help you build more effective relationships while networking, interviewing, and living your life. Ask Gail about a 30-minutes online EQi-2.0 assessment to start boosting your emotional fitness and be more effective. 

Elevator Speech Worksheet. No-cost tool to help you succinctly tell your WHO and WHAT in as little as one sentence!

How to Love Selling Your Skills Teleclass Recordings. Designed especially for career transition, career or business building, learn 4 mindset shifts from 2 teleclass recordings to help you take action and sell your skills with greater comfort and ease. (Read newsletter article on this). Recordings available here.

Email Gail your biggest career transition or direction challenge!

“Can I just say you are such an inspiration!!  What you do is amazing - you bring people together in a simple way that is effective and fulfilling.  I really appreciate you facilitating the [Chicago ExecuNet] networking meetings.  Never thought I would say this but.... networking is fun!!!” Cathy Liebrock

“I appreciate your focus & direction to keep us on a positive and meaningful track as well as providing words of wisdom and encouragement! This was the most energetic and supportive meeting I have attended in my four months of networking events.” Terri Hines