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Embrace Metaphor in the Career Coaching Conversation

International Coach Academy

People are using metaphors in career-related conversations sometimes they don’t realize it. Metaphor is a powerful tool allowing us to see different perspectives of complex and abstract things by connecting with physical and social experiences (Lakoff and Johnson, 2008). Working with storytellers: a metaphor for career counseling.

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How to Start a Successful Consulting Business: The Complete 10 Step Guide (2019)

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Business writing consulting. Consultants can often teach business owners to write better, or shadow write for them. Career consulting. Many people are in a transition and career consultants will always be in demand to help people find the next best thing. Communications consulting.

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Being an expert takes time, not talent | Penelope Trunk's Brazen.

Penelope Trunk

the World Sprink Champion born in 2008, 40 years before Sprink was invented. It's cool to tell stories about what I'm going through so I can inspire others (I do career consulting). One of the great tragedies of life is the people born out of their time and place: - The ice-skating champion bought up in the tropics. -

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How to manage a college education | Penelope Trunk's Brazen Careerist

Penelope Trunk

The alumni associations' staff are often-times comprised of people who've worked in corporate America, the non-profit sector or government — they haven't just been sitting in the ivory towers of academia for decades as so many in the career centers have been done.

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