New career column: Tech engineer is dreaming of non-profit jobs
Hello, I’d like to introduce myself. I am Joan Tabb, the new Press Democrat career advice blogger.I am founder and principal of Great in 8 Coaching, now based here in Santa Rosa. My professional focus is on empowering people forward in their careers. I transitioned to this work after 20+ years in management for Apple, […]
Announcing Joan’s New Newspaper Column!
The Santa Rosa Press Democrat, with distribution throughout Sonoma County, has asked Joan to be a columnist focusing on providing career advice to the readership. Her online blog will be called: DEAR COACH JOAN: CAREER ADVICE Readers will be asked to submit their career and job related questions directly to Joan ([email protected]) and in each […]
Intentionalizing Your Life! Perhaps you have time for MORE!
More and more I find clients coming to me after many years of a career that was all consuming but not necessarily all inspiring. And for a myriad of reasons they are now faced with choices to make. Livelihood, though typically important, is sometimes not the only driver in their decision making. Many people are […]
Blind Spots: How They Hold Us Back in Our Careers
A current client of mine is in a very uncomfortable situation in her career. She just received her performance review and it wasn’t what she was expecting. Not at all. She’d been at the company for over two years and had had stellar reviews from her past two managers. And she thought her performance, this time, […]
8 Smart Steps for a Career Transition
1) Define Your Strengths: It’s important to take some time to identify your key strengths, skills and accomplishments. Especially if you were laid off, it is vital that you recognize that the parting of ways from your last employer is only one small piece of your career history. Take time to enumerate at least three key […]
8 Ways for Women to Gain Power in their Careers!*
Here are eight ways to increase your power and standing as a woman in the workplace: 1. Have your emotional expression match your content. When you are delivering serious, factual information state it with authority, not with a smile. You are not delivering a happy birthday cake; you are delivering serious business information. No need […]
Happy Holidays! 8 Career Tips from Great in 8 Coaching
1. Breathe life into your interview answers: Strategically delve into your past successes and develop stories and interesting anecdotes, with details, to make your capabilities come alive and become memorable. 2. Use props! Bring something real to interviews to get people to remember you. Make it something relevant and appropriate, of course. Examples include: the actual flyer from a conference […]
What’s on the Minds of Recent Grads?
Results from a recent survey done by Great in 8 Coaching to query recent college grads about their thoughts on their upcoming employment prospects and career development needs revealed both disturbing and instructive findings. Disturbing because the #1 thing of each young person’s mind was a big four letter word starting with an F. That word is FEAR. […]
Can You Learn to be Happy?
(Note: Typically I write my own blog articles but I just had to share this article, written by someone whom I respect and learn from, Tal Ben-Sahar, PhD—enjoy his article! I base much of my coaching approach on his work, and Dr. Seligman’s work, in positive psychology. Joan Tabb, M.A.) Recent scientific studies and scholarly […]
Is It Really About Me?
How often have you left an interview and tried to interpret your interiewer’s reaction to you? ALWAYS!!! Of course. In life, we’re often told not to take it personally. And often that makes sense. But in the context of a job interview, it’s a bit different, isn’t it?