Coaching & Leadership

New Bedford, MA — Is stress impeding your productivity at work? Is work interfering with your personal relationships? If so, don’t despair! There are solutions, and they can be found at the Sixth Annual SouthCoast Women’s Forum to be held at Rachel’s Lakeside, 950 State Road (Rte. 6), N. Dartmouth, on Tuesday, April 29th from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

William Walsh, Vice President & General Manager of Lockheed Martin Sippican, Inc., is slated to receive the prestigious William J. Cabral Memorial Award at United Way of Greater New Bedford’s Annual Awards Banquet, to be held on April 10th at White’s of Westport.

The average person is likely to change jobs 10-14 times over the course of his or her working life, according to the Department of Labor. It’s not an option but essential, therefore, that we all develop the tools and techniques to manage our careers so we can recognize and seize opportunities, carve out our place and know when to change course, and keep ourselves engaged and productive for what may be a 50 year working life. We must, in fact, become the CEO of our own careers.

“Work doesn’t have to be grim. We can do better. We all want the chance to express the very best of ourselves and to be challenged to keep reaching for more. Our time at work affords us this chance – not the only chance but given we’re there 40-50 hours per week, it’s one of the best.” – Marcus Buckingham, co-author of “Now Discover Your Strengths."

"It's not what you know but who you know." When it comes to growing your business, advancing in your career, or finding your dream job, there's a lot of truth to that old saying. The connections you make with others will be invaluable in helping you to achieve business and career success. With the holiday season and all those social events rapidly approaching, it's a great time to sharpen your networking skills. Here are some tips to help you make the most of those networking opportunities:

Discovering and leveraging your strengths and the strengths of others is a critical pathway for fulfilling potential and achieving extraordinary performance outcomes and career success. Seems obvious? It's actually revolutionary.

Coaching in business!?  Now we've all heard of a coach in terms of football teams and professional athletes, but for a business owner, that's a new one!