Lies, Truth, and Extraordinary Results — The ONE Thing Book Review
With a title that sounds like marketing jargon, I was unsure what to expect from The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple […]
2020 Year in Review
2020 was a year for the history books for Close Cohen Career Consulting, just like for each of you. We
An Incredible Journey
Announcing: Rebrand to Close Cohen Career Consulting Interesting pandemic isn’t it? I recently surveyed a group of middle-aged professionals (sometimes
The Outcome
This past month a wonderful client of ours –a senior female software engineer, sent an email to us titled “The Outcome.” As you can imagine, we opened it immediately. Below you’ll find this really lovely reflection she sent over letting us know how she landed in her job search after graduating from our practice.
2019 Year in Review
2019 was an exciting year, we nearly doubled the number of clients served from 2018. Two dedicated staff were hired to uplevel the customer experience. Our brilliant career coaches Olivia Kidd & Rich Luby have increased engagement, training and coaching for the duration of the client’s stay in the practice. Further, in 2019 two resume writers were hired to attend to client demand.
Pick a Fight
The key to a great, successful fight that moves your strategy forward is to pick the overlooked, undervalued or forgotten aspect in your landscape that aligns with core business or core leadership goals.
We are For People who Love to Work
We are for people who love to work. People who always need a mountain to climb, for people who know
The Book We Love To Hate
The book Pitch Anything by Oren Klaff is a secret weapon in our arsenal of senior and executive level career coaching. But
“Measure What Matters” –Align your teams or die trying
Measure What Matters will make you want to go disrupt something nearby –like inefficiencies and broken team alignment at work. Riot like a middle manager. Is this why our startup clients love it the hardest?
Book Review: Radical Candor. Great for managers and directors
After noticing an uptick in inquiries from managers wanting to lock in their growth trajectory, I started hunting for a great, fresh book we could read together. It had to capture the human complexity of managing, directing and leading. I found Kim Scott’s Radical Candor– it was love at first read.