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Network to new Career Opportunities with the Ultimate Networkers Checklist  By: Dwight Bain, LMHC Your Network is the key to building Net-Worth as a professional because it is essential to achieving long term career success. Hyperion author Dan Simmons voices this as, “ Our survival may depend upon our talking to one another.” Business connections are the life of your future career yet most professionals have no strategy to reach out to others in a meaningful way. One of the fastest ways to accomplish that goal is by attending industry trade shows or educational conferences. Industry events immediately place you around like minded professionals to develop relationships and new friendships. These relationships happens quickly because all attendees share similar values, education and interests in a learning environment because it is so valuable to them. Learn to treat these events and the hundreds or thousands of attendees as valuable opportunities to develop relati...

By: Dwight Bain, LMHC Want Positive Results? Pick an Experienced Coach! Want a better life? Get a better coach because if you pick the wrong one you will not experience the results you want. In fact if you have a bad coach you may have to fire them. Don’t worry - A non-performing coach knows you will fire them since coaching is about results for the client, nothing more, nothing less. So how can you find a better coach? Here are the action steps to help you, and those you care about , find a coach who can challenge you to climb higher, dream bigger and accomplish more than you could have ever done alone. Start with the basics in your own life… 1.      Are you “coachable,” that is, do you seek out coaching and respond to critique? 2.      Is your life emotionally stable? 3.      Are you ready for a coach to challenge and hold you accountable? 4.      Do you have the time to...