Dear Reader,
Being a mid-career professional is one of the most fascinating and stressful times in your career. You’ve got some experience, and you’re making more money. You’ve taken on some leadership roles, and you are leveraging your strengths. Your family is growing, and your biggest fear is being stuck in a dead-end position that will leave you miserable. You know you are capable of more, but you just don’t know the best way to go after it.
I know this all too well.
I was twelve years into my teaching career when I remember teaching a middle school mathematics lesson on multiplying fractions and hearing that voice inside my head saying, “You can’t do this for the rest of your life.” I call it my “Mid-Career Moment.”
When that inner voice starts talking to us, we need to listen to it.
I remember feeling scared and nervous about making a career change or finding a new job. The process seemed overwhelming and exhausting. How was I going to make a change while working a full-time job? And yes, life was happening. I lost my dad. My mom wasn’t doing well. I was in a few bad relationships, and I was trying to get out of debt.
I was careful who I told that I was thinking of getting a new job. Some were supportive. Others were not. I remember wanting a resource, a one-stop-shop kind of resource that would give me a plan or roadmap for all the steps I needed to do to get my next position. And while Google is incredible, it can also be a bit overwhelming.
I began putting my plan together. That plan, or GPS, helped me examine my attitudes and strengths. I learned how to optimize my resume and network better. I got crystal clear about my value and where I could help my next organization. I leaned into my value and learned how to communicate it without feeling as if I was bragging or boasting when I was networking or on an interview.
My plan works, and it’s the same plan I use to help my clients today so they can figure out whatever is next and create their next advancement opportunity. Today, my clients create their GPS and get results. They’ve leveled up positions, made more money, and are happier than they’ve ever been in their careers.
I wrote this book because I wanted you to have the resource I didn’t have. Your Mid-Career GPS will give you a clear plan to help you manage your mindset, organize and optimize all of your logistics, and help you leverage my #SHOWUP6Strategies so you can be the best candidate for that next position.
Let Your Mid-Career GPS guide and help you create a clear plan to help you maximize your time, effort, and energy and allow you to come from a place of value and service as you SHOW UP for whatever is next for your career.
Remember – how we SHOW UP matters.
Love,
John
John Neral, MA, CPC reawakens, energizes, galvanizes, and innovates the mind think of employees, corporations, associations, and systems. A celebrated executive/career and professional development coach and in-demand, mindset-shifting public speaker, John’s professional walk included a 25-year career in education and a longstanding corporate consultant for Fortune 500 giant, Casio America, Inc. He now leads John Neral Coaching, LLC, one of the most progressive, mindset-shifting professional and organizational coaching and public speaking firms in the U.S. He is the author of Your Mid-Career GPS – Four Steps to Figuring Out What’s Next and SHOW UP – Six Strategies to Lead a More Energetic and Impactful Career and the host of “The Mid-Career GPS Podcast.”
As a Master Practitioner in the Energy Leadership Index, John’s experience has made him an impactful and valuable coach to his one-on-one and group coaching clients and organizations. With Energy Leadership™, John identifies where people perform at their optimal levels and when they are under stress. Combining the Energy Leadership™ principles, a client’s workplace strengths, and their “unique professional value,” John helps his clients create their career GPS so they can take action toward achieving their professional and personal goals.
A former church organ prodigy, John is an avid traveler–having sojourned to 5 of the 7 continents, a professional bowler and the winner of a Professional Bowlers’ Association Regional Title (2010), and a game-show fan, having appeared on previous episodes of GSN’s Chain Reaction and Make My Day. John is happily married and lives with his spouse and their rescue cat, Amy Farrah Meowler (named after the Big Bang Theory character), in the heart of Washington DC’s Dulles Technology Corridor, Tysons Corner, VA.
You can visit his website at https://johnneral.com or follow him at Twitter, Facebook and Goodreads.
Are you considering a career change but doubt yourself or get easily overwhelmed by the entire process?
Are you a mid-career professional ready to level-up, but unsure of what steps to take?
What if there was an easy and supportive way to plan your next career destination?
Your Mid-Career GPS will guide you to create your own professional roadmap so you can find the job you love or love the job have. John Neral, Certified Professional Coach, will help you strategically position yourself in the marketplace while teaching you how to leverage your unique skills from a place of value and service for any organization.
Learn how to prepare, position, and promote yourself as you create a tactical and strategic plan by building Your Mid-Career GPS. Let this book be your guide to answer many of the current questions you have about creating your next advancement opportunity.
PRAISE
“This book is for those of you who feel like you know everything and nothing about what’s next, you can’t fathom writing yet another cover letter, and you wonder “why bother” when it comes to updating your résumé. If you are feeling alone on this journey, bring this book, and all of the insight and tools it contains, along with you. You will have John’s company along the path and you will be one step closer to finding your way!”–Natalie Siston, Best-selling author of Let Her Out: Reclaim Who You Have Always Been and Founder, Small Town Leadership
“John expertly guides readers through the trials, tribulations, and common pitfalls of mid-career professionals and managers. He also provides information on the effective career strategies and mindset needed to be successful. This book is a must read if you are looking for professional support and could use a career GPS! — Porschia Parker Griffin
Founder and CEO of Fly-High Coaching Millennial Coaching Institute
“LinkedIn is the most powerful tool to help you network, build professional relationships, learn, search for jobs, and much more. I always say if you are not on LinkedIn you might be left out. Your Mid-Career GPS provides valuable tips and guidance to help you navigate LinkedIn and start growing your network and create your next advancement opportunity.”— Rhonda L. Sher, LinkedIn Specialist, Author, Speaker
“I picked up this latest book after enjoying John Neral’s previous book, SHOW UP – Six Strategies to Lead a More Energetic and Impactful Career. In Your Mid-Career GPS, John Neral provides clear, actionable steps to put his six strategies into play quickly and effectively. I really enjoyed his conversational writing style as well. As a mid-career professional, I love that my cohort is the focus of his attention and expertise. He demonstrates throughout the book that he knows the benefits mid-career professionals bring to an organization and his thoughtful observations and exercises will help anyone define their professional value and market not only their skills but themselves. Reading and employing the strategies in this book can position you to be a more valuable resource to your current employer or challenge you to spread your wings and find your next, great career opportunity. The underlying message is one of empowerment and encouragement and that’s a message everyone can benefit from.”–Victoria A. Bourgeois
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