Career Change & Executive Coaching

I won a 'Carnival of Career Intensity' competition prize recentlywith my article: 'How to Change Your Career With A Blog' and the host Dave Lorenzo has kindly emailed me to ask me if I would like a copy of his book inscribed to someone, perhaps someone who is graduating.

Synchronistically, my son, Edward is graduating in July from Leeds University, UK in: Computer Science and Management Studies and my Daughter, Elizabeth is graduating from Birmingham University in Nursing Studies. I am a very lucky person.

One of my coaching clients a Wing Commander in the Royal Airforce used to say that it was the ONLY question he would ever bother to ask an interview candidate: Are you a lucky person? (I believe the originator was Admiral Horatio Nelson)

His reasoning went like this. When you invite someone for interview you KNOW that they probably have the right skills. If their answer to your question is "Yes, I am a lucky person and........" then, the likelihood is that they will bring their luck with them to your organization.

In the thousands of hours, I have spent coaching and interviewing people I often find myself musing as to whether the person I am speaking to is a 'lucky' person or not and how luck-making it is to count one's blessings every day.

If you had a choice which do you think you would prefer: Money or Luck?