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December 11, 2019 2026-06-05 13:21Blog
ZOOM Session 017 – Your Next Move…Make It Strategic
Shawn Sommerkamp Few professionals, let alone Christian professionals, take the time to plan out a career path. It takes strategic thinking, like you might find in a chess match. In this video I take examples from three chess grand-masters to parallel with career aspirations. As it says in Proverbs 21:5, the plans …
ZOOM Session 019 – Is it Right to Suppress Our Emotions at Work?
There’s a part of us that wants to vent at work when things aren’t right. Something inside, however, holds us back. We choose, instead, to suppress how we’re feeling instead of expressing it. Is this the right thing to do? The truth is, other factors are at work when we …
ZOOM Session 012 – Pain-Gain Model of Decision Making
When making difficult decisions, that kinds that have a large impact on our future, it can be hard to see how we get in our own way. We feel stuck or confused and it happens based on the four types of internal blockers (Fear, Assumptions, Interpretations or Limiting Beliefs). The …
ZOOM Session 010 – Focus on Activity, Not Outcome
We live in an I-Want-It-Now world. It is so deep in our psyche, very few realize it’s even there. And when it comes to our professional aspirations, the same attitude influences our steps. We want fast results in our job search, career growth, training endeavors, leadership efforts and so on. …
ZOOM Session 009 – Mastering Righteous Negotiation
Professionals who have worked their entire career in a first-world country, tend to be uncomfortable with strong negotiation. Add Christianity into that formula and believers not only feel uncomfortable, they try to avoid it altogether. There seems to be a misunderstanding that good negotiators have to be manipulative, condescending, harsh …
ZOOM S1 Session 08 – Can We Trust Our Intuition?
The next installment in my series of FREE Saturday morning Group Coaching sessions. One of the key contributors that keep Christian professionals from pursuing mid and high-level corporate leadership roles is the fear of having to play politics. Truth is, politics don’t exist. The behavior we see in other leaders, …
ZOOM S1 Session 07 – Why Emotional Intelligence Predicts Success
The next installment in my series of FREE Saturday morning Group Coaching sessions. One of the key contributors that keep Christian professionals from pursuing mid and high-level corporate leadership roles is the fear of having to play politics. Truth is, politics don’t exist. The behavior we see in other leaders, …
ZOOM S1 Session 04 – How to Overcome Politics in Any Organization
The next installment in my series of FREE Saturday morning Group Coaching sessions. One of the key contributors that keep Christian professionals from pursuing mid and high-level corporate leadership roles is the fear of having to play politics. Truth is, politics don’t exist. The behavior we see in other leaders, …
ZOOM S4 Session 08 – The Mind of Christ in Our Career
The idea of worship is age-old for followers of Christ. When we think of it today, in modern speak, we often think of singing together in a Sunday morning church service. Others see it as our life-sacrifice obligation to Christ and His mission. How can we know for certain what …
ZOOM S3 Session 04 – Conform or Transform: How to Adapt at Work Without Losing Our Self
The idea of worship is age-old for followers of Christ. When we think of it today, in modern speak, we often think of singing together in a Sunday morning church service. Others see it as our life-sacrifice obligation to Christ and His mission. How can we know for certain what …
