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		<title>Career Coach Training&#8211;What You Focus on Grows</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 17:14:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Whitcomb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever noticed that what you focus on “grows”? You’ve probably had the experience of buying a car and, prior to the purchase, you hadn’t noticed that particular model on the roads, but after the purchase, you see it everywhere. That’s because you’ve created a new awareness for this particular item. The same holds [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Executive and Leadership Coaching-Problems to Solve or Tensions to Manage?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Mar 2013 00:07:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Whitcomb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[For Career Coaches]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Challenges are an everyday occurrence. Some come in small packages; some big. Some are short-term; some long-term. Some are simple fixes; others require complex analysis. Some can be solved independently; others involve teams, SMEs, or external consultants. As I was recently co-leading The Academies’ Certified Executive &#38; Leadership Development Coach class, my co-teacher Fran LaMattina, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Goes on in a First-Rate Mastermind Meeting? Six Takeaways &amp; Insights</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 2013 01:35:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Whitcomb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Career Focus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Networking]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, Lyndsey and I spent two days in a Mastermind group that met in Los Angeles. Was it easy to carve out the time to get there? Was it easy to give up two precious days that could have been spent doing “billable” work . . . two valuable days that could have had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Career Coaching &amp; Crisis Negotiations</title>
		<link>http://www.susanwhitcomb.com/2013/02/04/career-coaching-crisis-negotiations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2013 18:38:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Whitcomb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[For Career Coaches]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What might career coaching and crisis negotiations have in common? As you know, the tragic situation involving Jimmy Lee Dykes, the 65-year-old retired truck driver holding a 5-year-old boy hostage in a tornado shelter, has made headlines. Dykes allegedly held up a school bus, then shot and killed the bus driver who tried to protect [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Career Coaching Business Tip: Focus on Both the Big Picture and the Pixels</title>
		<link>http://www.susanwhitcomb.com/2013/01/14/career-coaching-business-tip-focus-on-both-the-big-picture-and-the-pixels/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2013 23:03:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Whitcomb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Intrepid Entrepreneur]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Where’s your focus? Is it on the Big Picture—dreaming about what you’d love to be, do, and have? There’s nothing wrong with that! In fact, visioning is a prerequisite to serious success. Is it on the Daily Details—tackling the things in front of you, whether to answer a pile of email, pay a bill, or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My New Drug of Choice</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2012 15:37:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Whitcomb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[For Career Coaches]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I spent part of my weekend learning from well-known neuro-scientists in a fascinating 6-hour webcast, and another part of my weekend reviewing our leadership curriculum as I prepare to teach another leadership coach training class this Friday. The combination of two of my favorite subjects—the brain and leadership—led to some “ah-ha’s” that can radically fuel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hurricane Relief and Job Search Support</title>
		<link>http://www.susanwhitcomb.com/2012/11/05/hurricane-relief-and-job-search-support/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2012 22:08:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Whitcomb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[For Career Coaches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[assessment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[patience]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[resilience]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Devastating. Unfathomable. Heartbreaking. Those are just a few words that attempt to capture the ravages of Hurricane Sandy. As I watch from afar here on the West Coast (admittedly removed from the physical and emotional effort it will take to recover and rebuild), I couldn’t help but notice some parallels in our work with career [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pumping Up the Interview Pipeline: The Difference between Openings and Opportunities</title>
		<link>http://www.susanwhitcomb.com/2012/09/29/pumping-up-the-interview-pipeline-the-difference-between-openings-and-opportunities/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Sep 2012 13:31:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Whitcomb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[For Career Coaches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[job seeker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[opportunity]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re working with clients who are in job search mode, they&#8217;ll want to be sure to have enough interviews in their pipeline! More interviews mean more options. Too often, people in career transition pin all their hopes on just one interview, thinking their ship has come in, only to see it turn into a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The 4 Questions You Must Ask the People You Coach</title>
		<link>http://www.susanwhitcomb.com/2012/09/04/the-4-questions-you-must-ask-the-people-you-coach/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2012 14:28:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Whitcomb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[For Career Coaches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[awareness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[confidence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[motivation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever been asked a question that set off a light bulb in your brain, or pumped up your confidence and hope, or got you out of a funk and on to taking action on what was most important to you? I’m a big believer in asking powerful questions. After teaching coaching for more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Snorkeling: Looking for Fish is Like Looking for Clients</title>
		<link>http://www.susanwhitcomb.com/2012/08/06/snorkeling-looking-for-fish-is-like-looking-for-clients/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 22:14:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Whitcomb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[For Career Coaches]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Many of you know that I’ve been in Hawaii for half the summer! One of the highlights, aside from ziplining, was snorkeling. As always, I had some insights as to how snorkeling—looking for fish—relates to our business lives—looking for clients (or even jobs, if you are a job seeker). Pain: We snorkeled at a beach [...]]]></description>
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