Career Strategy and Management Coaching

                          

To address the three questions you must answer .... more than once:

  • When is it time to move up?
  • When is it time to move out?
  • When is it time to adapt your style for greater success?

  • Individuals need to answer these questions throughout their careers at any age, every stage.

  • Managers must address the Three Questions for each of their employees.

"At last, an holistic approach that unifies career and leadership coaching to strategically manage the entire cycle of developing as a professional and as a leader throughout your life."

 Bruce Hazen, President/Owner Three Questions Consulting   (see "About" bottom of page)
  • Coauthor of The Complete Handbook of Coaching. Chapter on Career Coaching.
  • Author of the forthcoming book The Big Three: Answer the Three Most Important Questions to Manage Your Career for a Llifetime of Success.



How does Three Questions Consulting help professionals manage the career cycle?......

It's About Developing vs. Defending....

Simply striving for longevity in a job or organization eventually devolves into defending your occupational borders against the natural forces of change.

Organizations and leaders now face the biggest challenge to their talent management strategy....multiple generations....succession planning....inadequate sources of trained management talent.

And, It's About Strategy vs. Striving

Career strategy is the tailored suit of insights and planned actions that fit you and who you're becoming. It's one way you need to "dress for success"

Organizations and managers are going to be left behind if all they know how to do is strive to work harder.


Why This Work Matters to Me:

The nobility of work in all its forms is my fascination. Always has been. I've watched it become a passion, a pain, an inspiration, a consolation and an obsession for many. The special magic of skill and style (what I call "skyle") come together to make each person a "talent", not just a worker or a professional. My talent and commitment is to help you:
  • Accurately identify what is unique about your talent.
  • Get rid of outdated or inaccurate concepts of your self or your work.
  • Be more conscious of your skyle.
  • Align with work that honors who you are becoming.

Bruce Blackstone Hazen: President/Owner of Three Questions Consulting

                                                                                              


 

Bruce's own career, training, and experiences represent a managed process

that has:

  •  built on previous lessons and experiences
  •  diversified skills and perceptions
  •  stayed professionally and geographically flexible

This represents a contemporary example of development and the shift from "jobs" to an emphasis on doing the "work" that is needed by organizational clients, communities, and individuals. It enables him to speak of and demonstrate principles important to the field of career management, organizational leadership, and the process of change and transition.

 


 


CURRENT WORK:

As a career and management consultant, Bruce combines business systems experience with clinical training and understanding to address the needs of individuals, in a range of different professions, who are managing other people, organizations, and their own career development.

 

EXPERIENCE:          

Bruce has extensive and diverse industry experience as an internal and external consultant, member of corporate staff, and regional management. Arenas of work have included electronics, financial services, footwear/apparel, e-business, utilities, health care, legal, education, non-profit community services, international civil engineering, and global outplacement.

Managing change and transition began at Fluor Corporation while acting as the Director of Employee Assistance. Subsequently, as Director of the largest Employee Assistance Program in American public education, he managed the delivery of services to 37,000 employees of the L.A. Unified School District. Then, while a member of regional management for a health care company, he successfully helped manage the merger of three companies into one of the first managed healthcare companies on the West Coast.

Staffing, recruiting, career and management development, management training, succession planning, and organization development services have been delivered on an internal and external consulting basis within such Fortune companies as Tektronix, adidas America, Hewlett Packard, Stoel Rives, Knowledge Universe, Wells Fargo Bank, Bonneville Power Administration and PacifiCorp. Organizational clients have ranged from startups with eight employees to companies with over 10,000.

Over 13 years of individual coaching, his clients have come from diverse occupational titles ranging from CFO’s to engineers and boat captains to college faculty, administrative staff, sale & marketing professionals, human resources managers and people contemplating entrepreneurial ventures. He has held both staff and management positions within the health care, high tech, engineering and power industries and within the human resources field. He brings rare business line management experience to his work as a coach.

EDUCATION AND AFFILIATION:

Bruce has a B.S. in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University, with emphasis in organizational behavior and psychology. In addition, he holds a Masters Degree of Science in Clinical Psychology from California State University, San Jose, and is active in the Institute of Management Consultants (IMC), Oregon Entrepreneur’s Network (OEN), and American Society for Training and Development (ASTD).


Watch Bruce on YouTube facilitating a MeetUp at the Institute of Management Consultants

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTijMUmx-RA



Check for additional information and testimonials at LinkedIn:

http://www.linkedin.com/in/managementcoach


                    Serving Clients
         When They Are:

 

  Services to

   help you


  •  Moving up in their current profession or organization
  •  Develop
For individuals  or Leadership Teams
  • Moving out of work that no longer fits and moving toward work that is more congruent with who  they are becoming
  •  Depart
Transition planning
  •  Working through their style issues for greater success
  •  Adapt
Management Coaching