Dorothy Tannahill-Moran
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Dorothy Tannahill-Moran Quick Facts
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- Career & Executive Growth, Career Change, Job Search
- Career Focus
- Coaching, speaker, business owner
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- Retirement Options, CTI, ICF
Dorothy Tannahill-Moran is an experienced career & life coach focusing on transformation and discovery of: career development, career change, job search and retirement alte atives. Dorothy has acquired rich experience from "all sides of the hiring desk" by careers as a vocational coordinator, headhunter, employee services manager and operations manager. She has developed programs that specifically address the challenge of making a career change decision. Additionally, she has developed programs for Job Search Strategy that move people in their job search to the next level. She takes a "whole system" approach to coaching in that she coaches the whole person and all the goals that are important to them in addition to addressing their specific career phase goals. Dorothy is known as a wealth of timely, useful and content rich information and resources that she liberally shares with her clients. When working with her clients they can expect a confidential partner, humor and hard work that gets results.
Dorothy writes about change, transition and careers. With the articles she writes, she likes to provide the reader with practical insight and tools that they can take away to immediately use.
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Personal Change: 4 conditions that transform us
Sometimes terminology gets tossed around and we all nod our heads like we understand what’s being said, when we don’t. I thought I would take a few steps back and take a simplistic look at what personal change is, to ensure we’re all nodding our heads in understanding. When I speak about personal change, I’m describing something personally transformative. The personal transformation can be large or small but somehow you change a bit of who you are. Personal transformation can be driven by exte al and internal events.
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Career Change: 2 Strategies for getting off your “buts”
I hear countless comments from people saying they want to change careers, BUT, but, but, but. They make up some reason for not changing. Among these reasons are: I’m too old – I’ll have to take a pay cut – I don’t want to make the effort – I don’t know what I’d do. Essentially, I think it boils down to fear of change or no effort to change, probably both. There is a big portion of the workforce truly unhappy with their careers this morning as they drive to work. They don’t like their jobs, but they keep on doing the same thing day after day, year after year.
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Midlife crisis – Is it real? Am I having one?
Once you hear the term "midlife crisis" it conjures up an image of a pot bellied, middle aged man with a new red sports car and a young blonde babe next to him, with whom he's having an affair. There are other back stories to that image like the fact that he's bored with life and has spent the last six months embarrassing his kids with his attempts at appearing cool and dressing like them. We've all heard about these kinds of things and to some degree, we've seen bits and pieces of it with people that we know.
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Career Development: Networking for the Socially Inept, Introverted and Reluctant
You know our type. We’re the kind of people who for whatever reason don’t really know how to start up a conversation. We’d rather hide under the table than start chatting with an unknown person or stay at home watching reruns than go to a party. We’re your awkward cousin or the kid that sat behind you in biology. Is there networking hope for us?
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Careers: FINDING PASSION - 5 Easy Steps to Finding Passion in your Life and Career
Many people, particularly as they accumulate years of work experience, find they have a growing desire to put passion into their life and career. My observation about why this takes place is that as we grow in life experiences a lot of the excitement or “newness” diminishes. We simply have been there and done that enough that our threshold for what will rock our world continues to go up. It’s increasingly harder to get that same level of excitement. As we recognize that this element of excitement is missing, it can trigger us to go in search of something we can feel passionate about.
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Career Development: Are You as Good as Your Word?
A concept I don’t think gets talked about too much as it relates to a person’s career growth is integrity. Integrity sometimes sounds stiff and too conceptual but there are aspects to it that are so critical to your success that it bears pointing out – repeatedly.
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Careers: Did You Wind up in a Default Career? Prevention and Remedy
As a career coach and former High Tech manager, I’ve noticed that most people wind up in careers that are completely out of line with their college degrees or interests. When you ask people how they “chose” their careers, many of them answer with something very much like a track through the jungle. They didn’t know where they were going but moving forward was the direction they took. When I ask many college students what career they were headed towards I get two categories of answers: 1- I don’t know but I’ll figure it out 2- Something in my major (read: I don’t know).
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Career Change – Step 1 isn’t updating your resume’
I can’t count the number of times I’ve heard people talk about “updating their resume” when thinking about making a career change. If you are one of those people out there putting the polish on your resume’ as you are about to launch a job search for a new career- STOP. Your resume’ is not the place where you start your work on a career change. If you are simply looking for the same or similar position in another company, go ahead. There is a big difference between looking for a job and making a career change.
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Career Change: Feeling queasy about changing? 5 ways to confirm you’ve made the right decision
You made a decision to change careers but you’re feeling REALLY uneasy. You can’t tell if you’re coming down with the flu or if that sinking feeling is your decision. Big decisions are always kind of gut wrenching but there are some things you can do to test your situation. 1- Did you make this decision for the right reasons? Making a career decision is a big life changer and it requires some quality think time from you.
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CAREERS: Four reasons you might be bummed if you aren’t working and what to do about it.
What do the following people have in common? • Retired engineer • Laid off project manager • Stay at home parent • Newly graduated student • Trailing spouse to a military soldier • Injured and recovered worker • Out of work actor These people have much more in common than you probably realize. The commonality is what they are missing. All of these people are missing the many benefits we get from working. Of course, we all know that they are missing the paycheck, but there are other aspects to work that most of us take for granted, until we no longer have them.
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Career Change: Are You Afraid to Move in This Economy?
The buzz right now is that everyone is holding on to their current jobs with a death grip due to the grim economy. The overarching belief is that there are no jobs out there and for the ones that do exist, there are too many people applying. Let’s say some of that is true. What is also true is that there are job openings. People move, get promoted or something continues to pull people out of their jobs every day. There are jobs. Maybe not as many and maybe the competition for the ones that come available are stiff BUT there are jobs that need to be filled.
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Discovering Your New Life
If you are past 40, a phenomenon will take place (if it hasn’t already) where you will wake up one day and wonder “What’s next?” This time of questioning has become fondly called a mid life crisis. I don’t think this mid life question needs to be a crisis, but as a society that loves to ignore ...
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Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Dorothy Tannahill-Moran
Making a personal change can be scary and daunting, but it doesn't have to be. It is a process both internal and exte al that a person can follow to get them closer to the person they intend to be. It doesn't matter if the change is imposed on a person like losing their job or if it is a change they impose on themselves, like a career change, all change can be pursued fearlessly. Change can mean an exciting NEW LIFE awaits them!
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