'Strengths & Weaknesses' Doesn't Capture the Nuances of Interaction & Synergy An acquaintance who heads a department at a small company was talking to me the other day.  Her department had recently experienced turn over and she mentioned the toll in time/energy/attention that meetings and email chains required just to integrate her team.  It’s challenging for a group to work together effectively, particularly when, as my friend shared with me, the only data collected on the new hires relevant to collaboration was the boilerplate ‘strengths & weaknesses’ questionnaire.  That information too may be available only to someone in HR [...]

I was recently listening to the Talking Heads’ song ‘Once in a Lifetime’.  At one point, the lead singer David Byrne prominently asks himself, ‘Well, how did I get here?’  This is a question we all may ask ourselves rhetorically once in a while, and we may not know the answer, at least in the terms that Byrne poses it.  It got me to thinking, though:  there are situations in the professional ecosystem (e.g., networking, interviewing, casual conversation) in which someone does ask, ‘Well, how did you get here?’.  And it’s critical to have a response at the ready that [...]

Think of your skill in StoryPathing™ as a kind of GPS.  But rather than guiding you to whatever your next may be from where you are, it guides from WHO you are.  You discern with clarity and are equipped to share, with evidence, your competencies and motivations over time.  Your audience meanwhile can orient itself to how your present and what's next intersect in the present moment.  Gain perspective, confidence and direction about the next step, whether you are in transition educationally or professionally, by learning how to know and show who you really are with the StoryPathing™ methodology.  Curious?  Interested?  [...]