Lauren Still
MBA, CTACC
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Career Planning and Career Management Expert

Lauren Still Quick Facts
Lauren Still (MBA, CTACC) is a strategic career coach for motivated professionals. She works with individuals and organizations to increase performance, “connect the dots” between where the individual is and where they want/need to be, maintain healthy work-life balance, and achieve goals and objectives more quickly. Lauren keeps her clients’ “rising stars” on their upward trajectory, and helps them avoid the “crash and burn” that many high-achieving professionals encounter.
Lauren’s professional experience spans all levels of an organization, small and large corporations, domestic and international environments, and a variety of industries. In her early career she developed the HR and hiring processes for a small family-owned manufacturing business and rapidly progressed to an executive in the company before joining Mercer Human Resource Consulting in Asia and Australia.
In 2006, she founded her own business to help professionals clarify and achieve their career and life goals. Lauren brings her depth of experience and business credentials to her coaching and consulting by helping her clients develop a career plan and clear action steps, and by providing objective perspectives and accountability. Her ability to see issues from the individual’s point of view as well as through the lens of the needs of the business and management contributes to her realistic, balanced approach. She specializes in new job integration, career planning and management, performance improvement, work-life balance, and personal branding.
Lauren’s credentials include a M.B.A. from the University of Colorado’s Executive Programs and a B.A. in English from Carleton College. She is a certified coach through the Coach Training Alliance (CTACC), an Emotional Intelligence certified coach through ISEI, and a DiSC facilitator.
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"Passion" - Overused or Indispensable?
I have an on-again, off-again relationship with "passion." First of all, I think it is a tremendously overused term in our current cultural dialogue. It has become synonymous with a panacea -- there is a sense that if you find your "passion" that everything will be perfect - you'll be ecstatically happy, make millions doing it, stop global warming and have more time with your family. And maybe you will (or at least come close), because I have seen people do that.
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Five Tips to Increase Employee Engagement
Employee engagement describes the level of emotional involvement and enthusiasm employees demonstrate for their work, and how that influences their performance and willingness to further the organization’s interests. While that may seem “soft” and intangible, many researchers show that the benefits of increased engagement are very tangible and impact the bottom line.
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How to Get Promoted By Thinking Like the Boss
When you want to get a promotion or move to the next level in your organization, it is critical to position yourself as a strong candidate for the role. Just being good at your current job isn’t enough. Consider what your boss or the hiring manager looks for when deciding who to promote, and translate those needs into specific actions you can take to increase your chances of success.
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Ten Tips to Manage Conflict
Whether at work or in our personal lives, it is inevitable that we will deal with some conflict, at some point. Whether it is an irritable customer, a boss or colleague with whom you do not see eye to eye, a tension-filled meeting, or a disagreement with a family member, we all need skills to navigate these waters successfully.
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Rock Your New Role: How to Set Yourself Up for Success in Your New Job
Congratulations! You've landed a great new job and you're excited to get started. You worked relentlessly to get the job offer -- networking, applying, researching and interviewing -- but if you're thinking the hard part is over, think again. Chances are, you want to impress your new employer and demonstrate what a smart move they made by hiring you. You may already be daydreaming about getting your first promotion or raise. But nearly all new employees go into their new job without a plan for how they're going to make a great impression, which can be a serious mistake.
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Detoxing Your Work Environment
Living a healthier lifestyle is all the rage these days. Special diets and foods, exercise regimes, cleanses -- many of us have tried one thing or another to detoxify our bodies and increase our health and wellbeing. When we "detox" our bodies, we purge them of unhealthy inputs, and provide our systems with healthy foods and nutrients to repair any damage.
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How to Increase Your Influencing Skills
When someone wields influence, or is able to effectively persuade others, it is a powerful skill. The ability to influence others allows us to be heard, effect change, manage and lead more effectively, and ultimately get us more directly to what we want out of work and life.
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What is Career Planning? How to Use It to Your Advantage
You may have heard the term, or even used it: career planning. But what is it really? And do you need to be doing it?
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Is Work a 4-Letter Word?
Take this job and... you can probably fill in the blank. Research has found that is what an astounding number of employees seem to be thinking: According to a 2010 report by Mercer, nearly one third of US workers are seriously considering leaving their jobs, up from 23% in 2005. Fewer than 1 in 3 employees worldwide (31%) are engaged. Nearly 1 in 5 (17%) are actually disengaged. Engagement levels vary by region from 37% in India to 17% in China. (Blessing White 2011 Employee Engagement Survey)
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Career Crossroads: What Next?
Periodically, we may find ourselves at a crossroads in our career -- a point where there may be several possible paths or directions we can choose. The road we have been on is either coming to an end, or there are new options intersecting it that force us to make directional choices. We come to such a crossroads for a myriad of reasons: • A layoff or other involuntary release from a previous job. • Voluntary departure from a previous job, but without anything lined up to follow it. • Frustration when we feel our true potential is not perceived by others.r
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Why Your Personal Brand Matters
If you're not managing your own brand, it is being created by default by those around you. How comfortable are you with that? Do you trust your co-workers, your boss, even your friends to be able to describe you completely accurately? To be able to identify your greatest strengths, your inherent talents, where you can be most effective and valuable?
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How to Map Your Career
A career map is like a road map of your professional life - it allows you to visualize where you are, where you want to go, and possible routes to get there. A good career map will provide you flexibility, tools to assess opportunities as they surface, and ideas for planning your career management and personal development. Without such a map, your career will be built by default rather than by design. When you have an intentional direction, you can move towards your destination. If you don't know where you're going, then you just might find yourself wandering in circles!
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