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april 2009 –
Tips for Taking
Yourself to the Next
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Ellia Communications, Inc. is a coaching and consulting
organization dedicated to helping working women
achieve
breakthrough - in their lives and work,
relationships, and in
themselves - to
create life and work as they truly want it.
Ellia offers transformational coaching, seminars, and resources
that help women learn from their crises, and move
beyond them, to achieve their visions for passion,
power, and purpose in life and work.
For more information, please contact:
Kathy@elliacommunications.com
www.elliacommunications.com
www.breakdownbreakthrough.com
Phone: 203-249-7405 |
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Greetings!
This month's newsletter is dedicated to
helping you make the most of transition,
and take yourself to the next level of
expansion and growth. Whether you have
a new project or book idea that you're
wanting to develop, or are considering
launching a new website or business, or
simply wish to grow your skills and
talents, now is the time to embrace
expansion.
In this newsletter, you'll find a
fascinating article on "7 Steps to Take
Your Project to the Next Level," written
by renowned publishing and strategy
consultant Janet Goldstein (www.janetgoldstein.com).
Janet was tremendously instrumental to
me in 2006 in helping me take steps to
build my book project idea from a small
workbook to a nationally-recognized
original yearlong research study, the
findings of which were published in my
book
Breakdown Breakthrough. Read on for
Janet's tips for bringing your important
project forward.
Secondly, I'm holding several events and
programs in the next few months designed
to bring you clarity, movement and
renewed energy and excitement. Please
see below for information on programs
I'm delivering locally and nationally,
sponsored by organizations such as the
London Business School
Thank you, as always, and wishing many
happy breakthroughs
Kathy
P.S. On Wednesday, I'm being interviewed
by The Wall Street Journal on midlife
reinvention. More info on that to come!
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Join Kathy in her
Monthly Career Breakthrough Teleseminar
A monthly teleseminar to help you
achieve breakthrough in your work and
career challenges |
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Are you in career transition, or recently
unemployed and not sure what to do next?
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Conflicted between following your heart or
your pocketbook?
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Need clarity about next steps to maximize
your marketability, networking success, and
communicating your specialized skills?
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Longing to start your own venture but not
sure if the time is right or how?
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Just plain stuck?...
Get guidance that's different from all the rest.
Kathy is a true "breakthrough" coach (she "wrote
the book" on it) and knows that straightforward
networking and job search tactics and strategies
simply won't work unless there's
power and confidence behind them. Get moving
toward your breakthrough today, and learn how to
get more powerful and confident in your
decisions, choices, and actions.
Each month:
We'll discuss your key career challenges, and
explore new strategies to break through them.
In each call, Kathy will also discuss one key
strategy to breaking through career crisis,
based on her yearlong research study, and her
book
Breakdown, Breakthrough (see
www.breakdownbreakthrough.com).
Bring your current work-life challenges to the
call, to receive effective on-the-spot coaching
tips, tools, and insights for moving forward
with new confidence and clarity.
Register Now!
This Career Breakthrough Teleseminar is
$49 per session, and presents powerful tools and
tips for overcoming the 12 "hidden"
crises professionals face today. Come monthly
and/or when you need specific breakthrough
advice.
Advance registration for each class is
required.
Next Class:
Thursday, May 14th, 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm, EST
Where:
Your telephone
Cost:
$49 per session
Click here to register and for more info |
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Upcoming
Events and Programs
FREE WORKSHOP for women
Monday,
April 27th, 6:15 pm to 8:15 pm
KEYS TO THRIVING THROUGH CAREER TRANSITION
Financial and Personal Steps to Take in Times of
Change
Greenwich Library, 101 West Putnam Avenue,
Greenwich, CT
Going
through career reinvention or transition?
Wanting or needing to make a significant
professional change? Needing some guidance on
what to consider?
Join Kathy
Caprino - nationally-recognized women's
work-life and career transition expert -- and
Anne Wilkins - Certified Financial Planner and
Financial Advisor - in an informative and
thought-provoking discussion of the key steps to
take to create a
financial and professional foundation
for change - one that will help you create
future success and satisfaction in life and
work.
Speaker:
Kathy Caprino - Women's Empowerment Expert, career transition and
work-life coach
Guest Speaker:
Anne Wilkins - Certified Financial Planner™ and Financial
Advisor, Merrill Lynch
This event
is FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
To register or for more information, write to
Kathy Caprino at
kathy@elliacommunications.com
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BREAKTHROUGH, DON'T BREAKDOWN!
Interactive Coaching Seminar Helping
Women Transform Work-life Challenges into
Breakthroughs
Sponsored by The London Business School
Wednesday, May 13, 2009, 6-8:30 pm
Saks Fifth Avenue, NYC
In this
stimulating and empowering interactive coaching
seminar, Kathy Caprino shares vital information
on the key factors that contribute to -- and
help women overcome -- significant challenge in
their professional and personal lives. Drawing
on findings from her yearlong national research
study with over 100 professional women,
co-sponsored by The Esteemed Woman Foundation,
Kathy explores the 12 "hidden" crises working
women face today.
Attendees of this seminar will:
· Understand the important context and factors contributing to
professional women's crises
· Explore the 12 "hidden" crises working women
face
· Establish a new mindset about your ability to
shape your life and work
· Learn at least six strategies that will help
empower, expand, and enliven your professional
and personal life
· Leave with concrete "to-dos" and a renewed
energy and optimism about your ability to
achieve breakthrough - to reclaim the direction
of your life to live and work as you truly want.
Also, receive live, on-the-spot coaching about
key challenges you may be facing today!
When:
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
6:00 - 6:30 pm Registration & Networking
6:30 - 8:30 pm program
Where:
The Café at Saks Fifth Avenue
611 Fifth Avenue at 50th Street, 8th Floor
New York, NY 10022
Cost:
$45 for seminar, wine & chocolates and
after-hours shopping at Saks
Extra Bonus!
Receive a coupon for 15% off all purchases
from Saks on the night of & day after the
seminar.
To Register:
Advanced registration required so act quickly.
To
register, go to:
http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=182010
For more
information, please contact: Katherine
Armstrong,
karmstrong.mba94@london.edu or 203-246-3092
(also contact number for day of event)
Feel free to pass this message on to colleagues,
family & friends who might be interested. |
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7 Steps to Take Your Project to the Next Level |
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by Janet Goldstein
Publishing and Strategy Consultant
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Introduction and Step 1: "Turning Roadblocks into Roadmaps"
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I'm excited to share with you the 7 Steps I've used in
workshops and in consulting with authors, entrepreneurs, and
others who want to reach the widest possible audience with
their books and ideas.
These are not the usual Point A to Point B tips you might
find on how to get published, find an agent, or develop
information products. Sometimes, if you hit on just the
right concept at just the right time, all the step-by-step
pieces will fall right into place. And that's all you need.
But over and over, I've seen that advice that narrowly
focuses on one step of the process--writing a proposal;
editing; building a platform; coming up with a great
hook--can become as much a roadblock as a roadmap. It's easy
to get caught up in our own images of what it means to be
"creative" and what it means to stay true to our "vision."
The fact is, there is a constellation of steps--a creative
spiral, if you will--that successful writers and project
developers naturally, and often very consciously, undertake.
These steps all work together to bring one's ideas (content)
and audiences (constituency) into alignment.
This might sound fancy, but it's not. As you'll see in
today's first step, and those that follow, so much of
publishing--and launching ideas--is all about finding a
voice, finding a form, and finding an audience.
In my experience working with many bestselling authors,
experts, and profit and nonprofit leaders, these steps apply
equally to fiction, how-to, narrative nonfiction, and the
launching of idea-driven projects in various forms.
Here are the steps in the "7 Steps to Take Your Project to
the Next Level":
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Step 1 - Write ... to Think and Develop Your Ideas and to
Find Your Voice
Step 2 - Read ... to Inform and Enrich Your Work and Its
Success
Step 3 - Go Public... to Find and Connect with Your Audience
Step 4 - Stop Writing and Map...to Put Structure into Place
Step 5 - Build Your Platform ... to Give Yourself a "Golden
Floor"
Step 6 - Make Your Project Smaller, Bigger, or Radically
Different... to Crack Open the Possibilities
Step 7 - Have a Goal ... That Works for You!
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You can use these steps as a checklist. If you choose and
commit to at least 2 or 3 steps over the next few weeks, you
will surely gain new insights to bring to your endeavor, and
new creative energy to
fuel your progress.
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STEP 1 - WRITE ... to Think and Develop Your Ideas and to
Find Your Voice
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Are you writing?
It seems obvious, but if you want to write or if you want to
develop your ideas, you have to get started.
It is my firm belief that it's impossible to outsource
writing in a wholesale way. Yes, you can find and hire great
ghost writers, editors, publishing experts, proposal or
grant writers, or whatever else you might need, but first
there has to be a strong concept, voice, and purpose to what
you're doing. The core spirit and content need to come from
you.
For this step, you don't have to think at all about writing
for publication or writing for anyone but yourself. You can
write notes for a talk or write outlines for a story. The
important thing is to simply write. Through the writing
process you can discover what you want to say and to whom
you want to say it (your audience). Also, you can find out
what you can realistically do and what you're truly
committed to (your unique strengths/platform)--you may
surprise yourself.
Whatever your project or goal, move it forward with writing.
What to write:
-A journal--whether handwritten or typed.
-A private blog, that only you (or your chosen friends,
family, coach) can access...and respond to--if you want to
solicit feedback.
-A scene, a character study, a chapter introduction, a
statement of purpose, a synopsis, or a 1-page description of
your project.
-The copy for a website--such as a welcome paragraph, bio
(that relates to your purpose), a mission statement, and
outlines for possible content for the site.
-A draft book proposal or info product outline to pull
together the ideas you've been developing.
-Title, subtitle, and tagline ideas to crystallize your
concepts.
-A mini finished piece--an opinion piece, a letter to the
editor, a white paper, a booklet, a "free offer" piece, a
short-short story, a guest sermon at your church or even a
letter to friends and family or
colleagues.
-If you're searching for the right idea, for now write
anything. Start a daily writing practice and write AS IF
you did know.
-If you are already writing, push yourself further. Stretch
out the scope of your writing so you get beyond where you
are currently settled...or stuck.
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TO DO: Review this list and see which of these writing steps
seem most urgent to you. Follow through on at least one of
them. Make a commitment to yourself to use writing to move
your project forward.
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Sign up for Janet's 7-step E-course to learn all of the
critical steps to take to bring your project to the next
level successfully.
To subscribe,
click here or email Janet at
janet@janetgoldstein.com.
 Kathy
Caprino, MA
Ellia Communications, Inc.
P.O. Box 302
Wilton, CT 06897
www.elliacommunications.com
email:
kathy@elliacommunications.com
Phone: 203-249-7405 |
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