University of Chicago Alumni Career Webinar

University of Chicago Alumni Career Webinar

by | Communication, Conversation, & Confrontation, For Business Owners, For Executive Coaches, Videos & Podcasts

Mind Your Career Webinar:
Would I Benefit from Coaching?

From the University of Chicago website:
Kick-start your New Year with executive coach and dual alumnus, Tony Mayo, AB’77 MBA’78.

  • Differences between coaching, consulting, mentoring, managing, therapy, training, and just plain friendship.
  • Basic logistics of what it costs, how much time it takes, how to know if it is working, and how long the results last.
  • Finding, selecting, and getting started with an executive coach.
  • What topics and concerns are best addressed with coaching.
  • Typical components of a coaching conversation.

Click here for links to the companion articles mentioned in the presentation.

Also available as an audio-only podcast.
Click here.

 

 

The following transcript is included mostly for the search engines. If you want to read along with the video, just turn on the YouTube subtitles.

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The Internet is human relationships

by | For Business Owners, For Executive Coaches

Joe Krauss of Google…the killer apps that have really worked on the web have always been about connecting people to one another. So, whether it is instant messaging and e-mail as communications to connect people to one another, whether it’s photo-sharing as a way to connect people to one another through photos, or blogging as a way to connect people to one another through the words, people have always been social and the killer apps that have really succeeded on the web have always been social.

Google’s Joe Krauss in
Knowledge@Wharton

Spam Text Messages

by | For Business Owners, Technology Tips

Here is a timely article from David Pogue of the New York Times on how to stop most unwanted, advertising and nuisance text messages:

AT&T: Log in at mymessages.wireless.att.com. Under Preferences, you’ll see the text-blocking and alias options. Here’s also where you can block messages from specific e-mail addresses or Web sites.

Verizon Wireless: Log in at vtext.com. Under Text Messaging, click Preferences. Click Text Blocking. You’re offered choices to block text messages from e-mail or from the Web. Here again, you can block specific addresses or Web sites.

Full article and advice for other carriers is here.

Tony Mayo
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