Seattle job market is past its ‘golden age’ for tech workers Nov. 9, 2025 at 6:00 am Updated Nov. 9, 2025 at 6:00 am By Jessica Fu, Seattle Times business reporter Rhonda Gilligan didn’t want to retire. Over decades, she built a formidable reputation in the tech industry bringing well-known brands online. Gilligan served in senior [...]
Great Listening Skills For Coaches These tips and approaches, something I call "Next Level Listening," are a set of tools that help coaches better understand their clients. It combines ideas from communication theory, body language training, and Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP). When coaches use these tools, they can spot things their clients might not say out [...]
How do I Translate my Federal Resume to a Corporate Resume? Maybe you've been impacted by recent layoffs in the federal government. I know I have been personally affected by these arbitrary contract cancellations. I had a leadership coaching contract with the GSA that was eliminated by DOGE without any review whatsoever, and I have [...]
In this video, presented with General Assembly, Timothy Thomas, Lead Career Coach at RecruiterReady and Coaching Technology Group, Inc., examines the phenomena of Imposter Syndrome, and what you can do if you feel like you have it. Transcript is available underneath the video. Katie 0:13 Hello, everyone. Thank you for joining us today. My [...]
When sharing experiences with one another it is easy to believe we are communicating in literal terms. Closer examination reveals that most communication is abstracted into metaphor. Our life is shared with others through both subtle and colorful abstractions. I’ve been exploring, studying, and training in transformational modalities for nearly two decades. Figures such as [...]
Have you been told you are fault-finding, overly critical, or a bummer to be around? Odds are you are using a mismatch sorting strategy and it is affecting your life. This mindset can prevent joy and connection from happening, leading to loneliness, frustration, and maybe even depression. Sometimes finding what's wrong is a valuable skill, and in [...]
Even smart people sometimes need to "get unstuck." Part of my coaching practice is helping clients to move behavior from the “automatic” to the “aware” parts of their brains. There is plenty of scientific research supporting the neurological basis of our behavior. We can, indeed, make choices that change our thinking and thus alter the structure of our brains. Change [...]
The Insidious Power of Negative Sentences Negative sentences have a very powerful effect on human consciousness. Structuring sentences in our minds is a habit that is built from years of practice and reinforcement from family and peers. In fact, the habit of negative sentences and thoughts pushes away people who are positive. Negative sentences literally create [...]
Recently I was visiting Portland, OR with my family and found myself at Powell's World of Books (If you've never been, please get there - the place is AMAZING). I ended up with a little stack of books related to my field, and really enjoyed NeuroLogic: The Brain's Hidden Rationale Behind Our Irrational Behavior by [...]
In my work as a coach I have learned much about how to ask good coaching questions. Questions are at the heart of coaching - the sort of questions that as an individual we don't always know how to ask ourselves. If we knew the right thing to do immediately, we'd likely just do it. We [...]