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A message from our CEO and fearless leader

October 23, 2012 by Tim Sullivan 2 Comments

First time blogger.

Being as old as the hills, I admit to being a tad confused with all the social media hype. Initially, I balked at being a blogger, tweeter, facebooker because it seemed like everyone was just hawking their favorite brand – namely, themselves. Being first a Catholic and trained that any sort of vanity was a grievous sin, I declined to play.

As I have learned more, it also struck me that there are other purposes for blogging other than self-aggrandizement. What about the opportunity to reach more people to perhaps teach and to help?  With this as my goal, I am now committed – starting today I am an official, bona fide BLOGGER.

A little background on me. For thirty years, I have been a career development consultant doing individual coaching/advising with well over 5,000 business professionals. My career has focused on helping folks who are stuck: under-performing or performing wonderfully but still somehow feeling shipwrecked or just plain lost.

How to help these executives significantly improve their personal productivity has been my business life. In truth, i cannot think of a more rewarding career for myself. My career started as a Classics teacher and hockey coach. Now my classroom is in corporations and my “students” are adults. Once a teacher, always a teacher!

To aid my “students” I have created hundreds and hundreds of home-brewed models, exercises and metaphors that have helped folks gain back control of their lives. For decades now, my clients have said “Sully, you have to publish this stuff.” I now plan to do just that as The Ancient Blogger.

Fasten your seatbelts! I plan to have a lot of fun doing this and will do it in my own style, my own voice.

– The Ancient Blogger

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No Data, No Plan

October 18, 2012 by Tim Sullivan Leave a Comment

I would like to offer an analogy to compare career and life planning with business planning. I realize that most of you are business people and could never imagine trying to help a client or start a project where you were given no data about the client/project’s history. In other words, they were unwilling to give you any data for you to analyze and all they really wanted from you was a crackerjack marketing plan. Wouldn’t you say that’s a rather impossible task? The same would hold true for any consultant. For example, if you are a CPA or a financial consultant, how could you ever create a financial forecast if you are not able to study the historical financials?

How old are you? Let’s say you are 30. Say you are a 30 year old company. How much data do you have on your company?  The idea here is that it is virtually impossible to help somebody build a career plan and life plan without very carefully analyzing the history of this 30-year old person. To whit, how much data could you come forward with if I asked you by tomorrow to bring all the data on You, Inc. and organization that was incorporated today? If you are like most people, you could come up with virtually no data!

In this case, as with business planning, if we have no data, there can be no analysis, and no business design and therefore no plan in effect. Both you and this mythical company are stuck.

So the difficulty here is that with no data, there can be no plan. What everyone ends up with then is pure and unadulterated emotion. When asked “what should I do” – I am stuck, frustrated, angry and feeling very blocked. Emotion, here, is our enemy.

Filed Under: Coaching Tagged With: Career Development, Data, Self Awareness, Who Am I?

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