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	<title>Career Advancement &#38; Transition Coaching &#187; Career Advancement</title>
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		<title>Lessons Learned: Dr Tachi Yamada on Managing Yourself and Others</title>
		<link>http://www.myfactorcoach.com/2010/03/19/lessons-learned-dr-tachi-yamada-on-managing-yourself-and-others/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Awuku-Tatum</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;How do you turn a battleship? You turn a battleship by making a directional commitment and staying the course, not wavering from it&#8220;- Dr. Tachi Yamada
In a recent interview on NYT&#8217;s Corner Office series, Dr. Tachi Yamada&#8217;s advice, which apply whether you are a manager, individual contributor, entrepreneur or working towards your next role:

Learn to delegate and let go. Instead of micromanaging, develop a microinterest. 
Identify the potential breaking points of a project, this will help you to focus on the most critical task. 
Venture outside your country or city to learn what you do not already know. 
Give your audience, be it one person or many, your undivided attention [...]<hr /><hr />]]></description>
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		<title>Is Your Expert Status Preventing You From Moving Forward?</title>
		<link>http://www.myfactorcoach.com/2010/02/23/is-your-expert-status-preventing-you-from-moving-forward/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:05:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Awuku-Tatum</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the challenges some leaders face during career and entrepreneurial transitions, is the fact that they will have to start all over again and lose their expert status. The fallacy of expert status goes hand in hand with a limited view of the possibilities in front of you as well avoiding action completely. Adopting a beginner’s mindset when you are in transition, introduces many possibilities that can help you think through dilemmas; such as how to repackage your wealth of experience, skills and unique perspective or invest your energy doing something worthwhile that you truly enjoy.
During coaching conversations with clients, we focus on what will it take, to get [...]<hr /><hr />]]></description>
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		<title>Take the sting out of the painful process of reinvention: 5 ways to take 1 step towards change</title>
		<link>http://www.myfactorcoach.com/2010/02/17/take-the-sting-out-of-the-painful-process-of-reinvention-5-ways-to-take-1-step-towards-change/</link>
		<comments>http://www.myfactorcoach.com/2010/02/17/take-the-sting-out-of-the-painful-process-of-reinvention-5-ways-to-take-1-step-towards-change/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 22:09:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Awuku-Tatum</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Opening quote from Grey’s Anatomy: “The surgical scalpel is made of steel, sterilized, carbonized stainless steel. This is a vast improvement over the first scalpel, which was pretty much a sharp stick. Medicine is constantly reinventing itself. That means surgeons have to keep reinventing themselves, too. There is constant pressure to adapt to changes. It can be a painful process. But without it, you’ll find yourself moving backwards instead of forwards.”
Reinventing yourself, finding a new job because you either choose or are forced too; committing to the idea of work that you truly enjoy or managing a new team or project, is hard work and yes often times painful. Hard [...]<hr /><hr />]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons Learned: Ursula Burns&#8217; Path to CEO</title>
		<link>http://www.myfactorcoach.com/2009/09/23/lessons-learned-ursula-burns-path-to-ceo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Awuku-Tatum</dc:creator>
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At the Most Powerful Women Summit,  when asked how she would tag herself, Ursula Burns, CEO of Xerox, responded the “Groomed CEO”. With roughly 28 years of experience there is no doubt that Ursula Burns not only loves Xerox but created her own path to prepare for this seat. Burns led Xerox through many stages of transition, e.g. responding to crisis by spearheading downsizing initiatives, turning around Xerox to meet revenue growth expectations and realigning parts of the business to boost its business to business offerings. Burns&#8217; path offers many examples, success factors that prepared Ursula for the next level, here are five of them:

Burns knew what her factor. Your factor is a powerful, [...]<hr /><hr />]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons Learned from Anne Mulcahy: Managing a Seamless Transition</title>
		<link>http://www.myfactorcoach.com/2009/09/21/managing-a-seamless-transition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:50:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Awuku-Tatum</dc:creator>
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One of the dilemmas some of my clients and readers face is letting go and moving forward. Whether it is a project that went awry, a negative performance review, the experience of working with a mismatched manager, a lay-off or your teams&#8217; lack of confidence in your ability to deliver, letting go of these career shocks represents a transition that must be managed effectively to advance our careers.
Tagged the &#8220;Accidental CEO&#8220;, Anne Mulcahy, former Xerox CEO,  admits she was not groomed for the CEO seat. At the Most Powerful Women Summit, Anne acknowledges she came in the wrong way so it was important to learn from that and go out the right way. [...]<hr /><hr />]]></description>
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		<title>Carla A. Harris: Hard Earned and Hard Learned Lessons</title>
		<link>http://www.myfactorcoach.com/2009/07/01/carla-a-harris-hard-earned-and-hard-learned-lessons/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:57:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Awuku-Tatum</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, I attended Brokering Change: A Wall Street Multicultural Women’s Exchange a great quarterly series hosted by Goldman Sachs.
Carla A. Harris was one of the keynote speakers. Harris is a Managing Director in the Strategic Client Group at Morgan Stanley Investment  Management. She is also the recipient of many accolades such as Fortune&#8217;s &#8220;50 Most Powerful Black Executives in Corporate America&#8221; and Black Enterprise&#8217;s &#8220;Top 50 African Americans on Wall Street&#8221;. I am always inspired when I hear Harris speak, she shared a few of “Carla’s Pearls” during the closing keynote:

 Living in your own authentic skin is the key to being powerful.
In the 21st century, a leader must be [...]<hr /><hr />]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s the best advice you have received? (Part Two)</title>
		<link>http://www.myfactorcoach.com/2009/06/26/whats-the-best-advice-you-have-received-part-two/</link>
		<comments>http://www.myfactorcoach.com/2009/06/26/whats-the-best-advice-you-have-received-part-two/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:59:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Awuku-Tatum</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is the second installment of influential leaders sharing wise words that changed their lives forever in the “Best advice I ever got” at Fortune Magazine. Their practical advice can be applied to advancing your careers and transitions, as well as many other areas of your life:
12. Take advice from smart people &#8211; share your ideas with smart people but don&#8217;t expect them to act on your ideas. It&#8217;s your idea, what are you willing to do to bring it to life?
13. Make an impression &#8211; when you transition to a new role or company, you have about 90-100 days to make an impression.  To build your brand, create momentum with [...]<hr /><hr />]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s the best advice you have ever received?</title>
		<link>http://www.myfactorcoach.com/2009/06/23/whats-the-best-advice-you-have-ever-received/</link>
		<comments>http://www.myfactorcoach.com/2009/06/23/whats-the-best-advice-you-have-ever-received/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:52:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Awuku-Tatum</dc:creator>
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Fortune magazine asked a host of influential leaders to share wise words that changed their lives forever in the “Best advice I ever got”. Their practical advice can be applied to advancing your careers and transitions, as well as many other areas of your life:

Keep it simple &#8211; set a goal, share it with someone, figure out how you are going to achieve it and keep your goal top of mind.
Show, don’t tell – the best candidate for an opening does a great job of showing how they meet a prospective employers requirements, with great examples and results that showcase their abilities.
Do what you love – when you do, work [...]<hr /><hr />]]></description>
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