10 Steps to Creating a Portfolio Career
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Many portfolio workers are called upon to make presentations from time to time. Some of us have presenting as part of our portfolio. Our friend, Andy Lopata in his wonderfully titled book “…And Death Came Third”, reports on the research some years ago as to what really stressed out managers. No 1 was having to [...]
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A long running joke between Katie and me has been that as an ex-tv journalist and newsreader she has always had the most professional looking photos of herself available – and still does. I have made do with some pics that my wife took in our dining room at no cost whatsoever. The difference in [...]
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I just loved a letter to the Financial Times from Jim Sanders in the US in which he states that “Concepts such as portfolio careers, artfully deconstructed jeans, deconstructed jackets, retro T-shirts and male moisturisers hint at a new atmosphere of muddle”.
To my knowledge I don’t own anything ‘deconstructed’ other than possibly a cat. Of [...]
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We all have one. Many of us have more than one. This is your most effective way of delivering your brand every day. Are you making the most of it? Look at an article in Fast Company magazine that gives tips on now to maximise your band in this way. It certainly got me to [...]
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Increasingly my simplistic answer to this is ‘NO’. Career planning seems to be an oxymoron.
Career surfing might be a better metaphor. You never know what the weather is going to be like, it changes while you are surfing, its sometimes difficult to stay upright and you can’t guarantee your direction or speed. And sometimes you [...]
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…very different from what it was. Katie in her last posting referred to the proposal to institute a 21 hour work week which would spread existing employment further and enable a better life blend for people. That is one possibility. There are many more and all relate to the notion that the Industrial Era of [...]
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Interesting blog posting which spells out the variety of roles for which musicians could get paid. Wouldn’t it be good to take careers outside of the music world and to plot the possible different roles in one’s portfolio bag? Any suggestions? Good one this for a possible discussion on our portfolio careers linked in group.
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Seth Godin never fails to stimulate – even if you disagree. I don’t know about you but I am getting heartily fed up of negative media, scared politicians and whining individuals (”its all doom!” “We’re all going to die!”) Well at least the latter is true. Crazy times in history have always been times that [...]
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At this time in the New Year many portfolio workers will be hoping that they will be given opportunities for saying ‘yes’! However, as your career develops it does become an increasing problem and so we are delighted to welcome another guest poster. Jennifer Holloway is one of the best consultants that I know who [...]
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As you know we welcome guest postings and this week I was delighted to meet up with Gail Gibson who is one of the most prolific contributors to our linkedin portfolio careers site. Gail came up with the lovely visual metaphor of a portfolio career as a multicoloured umbrella and uses this now on [...]
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