Jane Cranston
BS, MSW, CASAC
Free
Executive and Career Coach - Career Strategies for the Competitive Edge Expert
Jane Cranston Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Executive Coach, Business Coach, Career Counseling, The Job Search Expert, Workplace Issues
- Career Focus
- Executive Coach, Career Coach, Speaker and Author
- Affiliation
- ExecutiveCoachNY.com, ICF, EAPA, NASW, NAWBO
Welcome! I'm Jane Cranston an executive coach, career coach and "The Job Search Expert" to executives and professionals. I assist them in achieving the competitive edge - the next level in their career and life. This can mean a higher $alary or better position, successful job search or career change, greater ease with managing people or starting a new venture. Applying to the coaching process my many years of senior corporate management experience with major global brand name firms and what I have learned opening and running three businesses helps success-driven adults accelerate their progress and reach their goals and aspirations.
The three degrees I have earned and the training I received as a coach, business leader, educator and clinician assures coaching clients advanced, high quality, current skills sets and practices and information. The fact that I've "been around the block" a few times in my life brings a common sense, humor and practicality to every coaching connection. It's real and can be fun.
My personal life is full of family and friends who enrich my world and challenge my perceptions on a daily basis. My hobbies foreign travel, gardening, entertaining as well as a passion for helping poor inner-city children brings a world of style, beauty and compassion to everything and everyone I interact with.
I know the world and I especially understand the world of work and the workplace. Coaching is how I share my talents and gifts with others.
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Responding is Key to Your Success
It shouldn't surprise me anymore, but it does. When a potential coaching client contacts me, I often ask two questions, "How did you find me?" and "What made you interested?" Ninety percent of the time, the answer to the first question is "I Googled 'career coach.'" No surprise, I work hard to make it easy for people to find my business and me. It's the second answer that's shocking, "Well you were the only person who called back." What?
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Have you put in your 10,000 hours?
Malcolm Gladwell made a name for himself by writing three bestselling books “Blink,” “The Tipping Point,” and now “Outliers.” His latest is currently number 5 on the bestseller list. The word outlier refers to “a statistical observation that is markedly different in value from others of the sample.” Gladwell’s focus is on extraordinarily successful people (Bill Gates, the Beatles, NHL players to name a few), and what it is about them, their environment, and the luck that made them what they are today.
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Increase Your Productivity by Doing Less
Who wouldn’t like to get more done in less time, have excess hours and energy to devote to family, hobbies, and rest? If you looked at the actions and habits of the average worker, you would wonder. We seem to be increasing productivity to levels formerly seen as impossible, lengthening our commutes and expanding our hours in the office at a price of 25-40% less sleep than our grandparents. Are we healthier or happy because of it, studies says “no.”
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Marketing Lessons Learned from a Yard Sale
I decided autumn was a great time to clean out the garage. Thought, while I was at it, to get rid of the things that had been replaced or whose time had come. The answer was clear—sell it at my first ever yard sale. Here’s what I learned and how I think we can all apply some of the lessons to other parts of our lives.
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Social Networking for Job Search Success
Social Networking gets your job search noticed When I speak of social networking I am referring primarily to Facebook.com (growing the fastest) LinkedIn.com (I call it the Facebook.com of business), My Space.com (huge globally) and Twitter.com (getting the most buzz). Not to say there are not other locations but if you used only these you would be well into the game. Why would a sane adult want to enter into the social networking arena, during a job search?
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Top 4 Resume Writing Mistakes Smart People Make
Top 4 Resume Writing Mistakes Smart People Make (and how to avoid them) 1. Underselling Accomplishments. You would be amazed how many people either forget or minimize their achievements. Some managers are too quick to give, rather than take credit, and often couch their successes in qualifying terms such as “possible,” “assisted,” “worked with,” “generally.” Solution: Work with someone who can help you harvest those accomplishments. Keep files throughout the year listing contributions and results. It is easy to forget and or assume everyone knows.
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Team Leardership And Your Career Development Strategy
If the 80s was the decade of the manager (remember The One-Minute Manager?), and the 90s focused on leaders (sometimes more like celebrities), the 00s is the time of team leadership. No longer are companies relying on a single person to drive the vision. The risks are too high, the talent thin. The needs demand depth and breath of knowledge as well as skills. Only a highly qualified leadership team can meet the challenge. In addition, evidence shows that successful teams produce greater results and happier employees.
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Four Ways to Turbo Charge Your Resume
If you want your resume to get noticed, open doors and land you the job you want and deserve … 1. State accomplishments - what have you done in past positions that has made the company money, saved them money, found them time, saved them time or brought prestige to the organization or the brand? Do Now! List your three biggest accomplishments.
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Finding Abundance in Tough Times
Times are tough. It is hard to avoid the challenges of the day whether it is your job, wallet, optimism or health that has been impacted. Earlier in the year I was redoing my kitchen. Clearing out twenty years of accumulation was a bigger task tha I expected. I was shocked at how much food I had amassed. I decided to take the challenge announcing we were “eating from the cupboard” for the next two weeks. It was truly amazing how many wonderful things we found and the new dishes created. Rather than feeling deprived or restricted it became a creative and delicious process.
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Time vs. Things. What Makes You Happier?
In the Business section of the New York Times (August 8, 2010 ), the author, Stephanie Rosenbloom, wrote about people who had successfully downsized their lives, sometimes to a level many of us would deem extreme, particularly when it came to possessions. Whether by choice or circumstances, such as lay off or divorce, they own less, work less, and seem to be living happier lives.
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Civility in the Workplace -- Four Ways to Achieve It
The word civility is surely not new to the language, yet it is not a term you hear spoken every day. It took a “shellacking,” a tea party, and a deadly shooting for a few people to step back and ask “is this really the way ‘we’ want to treat one another?” Of course, most of us, myself included, are quick to blame others before we monitor our own boorishness, but there is something that rings true, at this time, in this world, which says maybe there is a lesson to be learned. Since the workplace is often an arena for change, a microcosm of the bigger community, I would start there.
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What Top Employees Complain About
I am fortunate to work as an executive coach with people at many levels, in different stages of their careers, and in a variety of industries. Even though there is significant variety and diversity in my client base, I am often struck how similar their thought processes and experiences are. This is particularly true when it comes to discontent. You’d think everyone would be complaining about wages, or lack of vacation time, the long hours, or the tight spaces in which they work — no.
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