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Tackle the first 90 days of your next role: A 5 step process for success on the job
Tackle the first 90 days of your next role: A 5 step process for success on the job

Congratulations! After months of networking, interviewing, and sending out resumes, you’ve landed your next role. This is a huge accomplishment!

Celebrate, rest, relax and show your gratitude to the people who helped you achieve this goal.

Then, as day one in your new role draws near, make sure you have everything you need to succeed by following HBS Career Coach Matt Spielman’s five steps to success on the job in the first 90 days.

What (Really) is Coaching? Top 5 Coaching Myths – and the Realties We All Need
What (Really) is Coaching? Top 5 Coaching Myths – and the Realties We All Need

Today, many of us looking for the next step forward in growth, performance and personal or professional ambition are turning to coaching for assistance. Here are five misleading myths, accompanied by more helpful insights that can put you on a more rewarding track, and move you even closer to achieving your goals:

Instead of Making a New Year’s Resolution, Make a Game Plan!
Instead of Making a New Year’s Resolution, Make a Game Plan!

Goals matter. They give us purpose and add more meaning and intentionality to each day. Seeing so many goals wither and die drove us to develop a better process. Enter the Game Plan System or GPS. This is a process that can take you from where you are today to where you want to be “tomorrow.”

Life is like a box of puzzle pieces...
Life is like a box of puzzle pieces...

Life is like a box of puzzle pieces. Going through life without having a vision for what you are walking and working towards is like trying to complete a jigsaw puzzle without the completed image displayed in front of you.

After Conducting 1,000 Coaching Sessions, Here’s What I Learned
After Conducting 1,000 Coaching Sessions, Here’s What I Learned

Inflection Point Partners has reached an inflection point of its own: one-thousand coaching sessions with executives and individuals wanting to accomplish something meaningful.  Here are some of the most compelling lessons I have learned from my time with a group of extraordinary people.  

Leaving an Unhappy Job: How to Look before you Leap
Leaving an Unhappy Job: How to Look before you Leap

As a career coach at Harvard Business School, Matt Spielman (MBA Class of 1999) has heard the groans of frustrated professionals who are unhappy in their current jobs and faced with an urgent question: should they leave immediately or wait until they've secured their next position?

HELP WANTED! Why the conventional hiring process fails everybody involved
HELP WANTED! Why the conventional hiring process fails everybody involved

Every day people make decisions that profoundly impact their lives and careers with incomplete information, at best.

“All Aboard!” Five Steps to Ensure New Employees Soar
“All Aboard!” Five Steps to Ensure New Employees Soar

Despite all the effort that goes into finding the right person, most companies simply don’t finish the job when it comes to new hires. 

Should vs. Could – Words We Live By
Should vs. Could – Words We Live By

When you arrive at the destination, ask yourself, was it where you really wanted to go? Success, how it’s typically defined, does not always yield satisfaction. In part, feelings of malaise stem from ignoring the internal voice. You know… the one asking, what could I do in this situation?

From the Revenue Coach: Five Sales Mistakes You Need to Avoid
From the Revenue Coach: Five Sales Mistakes You Need to Avoid

What helps define our clients’ improved performance is generating revenue. Achieving the numbers and sales goals. In our work, we call upon decades of sales experience to empower clients to have a greater financial impact on their firms.

The Life You've Imagined
The Life You've Imagined

Often in my daily life and work, I pull the quotes out for energy and inspiration. That goes back to some advice my career coach gave me years ago—to identify the things in your life that give you energy and do more of them. For me, powerful words can be a kind of fuel, like the little cups of Gatorade that people hand out to marathon runners as they pass.  Here, take this! Keep going!   

How Do You Measure Your Team? The Six Conditions for Creating Effective Teams
How Do You Measure Your Team? The Six Conditions for Creating Effective Teams

Both on the baseball field and in the work place, I have played on good teams and had the privilege of playing on some great ones. And, like many of us, I have been on poor teams, too. But, this grading system was based on perception and opinion. Good, Great, and Poor according to what my gut told me. In all instances, my feelings were not steeped in quantitative rigor or objective metrics—until now.

What's Your Piano Man?
What's Your Piano Man?

I first put this question to one of my classmates back in grad school almost twenty years ago. “What’s your Piano Man?” At the time, he didn’t know what I was talking about. And right now, you might be a little confused yourself. Let me explain.

Time Will Pass… Will You?
Time Will Pass… Will You?

My ninth-grade science teacher, Mr. Wilson, hung a sign under the clock that read: “Time will pass, but will you?” That year, I must have stared at that sign a thousand times. On the surface, the message seemed obvious: pay attention and do well. Don’t, and you won’t. Simple enough. Right?