Competitive Edge Articles

Advance Your Career — Get Out of Your Comfort Zone Are You a Winner Who Cannot Lose Are You Telling Yourself the Truth Art of Landing Un-Posted Jobs on Wall Street Become a Better Boss Become More Creative By Remembering Less Branding Yourself in the Workplace Building Trust at Work Civility in the Workplace — Four Ways to Achieve It Competitive Edge Career Maintenance Program Creating Awe-inspiring Presentations like Steve Jobs Desire to be Recognized Do You Have an EXtreme Job Do Women Lack Ambition? Encouraging and Making Progress Extroverts in the Workplace First Step to Changing Behavior Five Hiring Mistakes Smart Employers Make Fuel, Focus, and Feedback — Essentials of Team Leadership Getting a Raise in a No Increase Environment Getting Great Employees for Less Money Goal Setting Ideas for the New Year Gratitude is Good for Your Health Heard about the Herd? Hire for Skill, Retain for Results, Fire for Chemistry How Not to Get Laid Off How Not to Get Laid Off Part II How to Get the Offer Humanizing Your Work Place Increase Effectiveness with Checklists Increase Your Productivity by Doing Less Introverts in the Workplace: How They Operate; How They Succeed It's Bigger and Better Than a Goal It's Energy Management, Not Time Management It's More Than Money Leaders Listen Leadership Lessons Learned from My Father Let Them Know Who You Are Manage Your Time to Fit the Challenge Managing Yourself to Success Never Putt with a Driver Other Ways to Communicate Besides E-mail Raise the Bar — Focus on Successes Recognition on the Job Responding is Key to Your Success Retooling Your Resume Should I Change Careers Sorry State of Apologies Starbucks — The People Connecting Business Take Me to a Leader Taking Control of Office Clutter The Blended Life The Implications for Not Implementing This Tale is Not a Tall Story Three Essential Qualities of a Great Supervisor Time Too Tough on Yourself and What to Do About It Using Personal Leadership What is the Competitive Edge? You Shouldn't Have to Walk on Water

About the Author

Executive and career coach, “The Job Search Expert,” Jane Cranston understands the challenges and opportunities in the workplace. She integrates years of experience as an accomplished senior executive with global brand name companies, with the lessons learned from opening three successful businesses, and then applies her education and coach training. This sophisticated mix affords her clients her unique perspective, business sensibility, and entrepreneurial spirit.

Jane is the founder and Managing Director of ExecutiveCoachNY, an executive and career coaching business based in New York City with clients nationwide. She coaches success-driven executives and managers to develop a career strategy that accelerates advancement, increases compensation, enhances people-management skills as well as gets the competitive edge in all business activities.

Coaching with Jane is dynamic, structured, forward-focused as well as fun and inspirational. Working with clients in fields such as finance, technology, media and entertainment, real estate, and the law, she assists them in recognizing and achieving their full potential at work and in their personal lives.

Clients claim coaching with Jane has “changed my career focus,” “helped me better understand how to motivate my staff,” “given me ideas that have increased my income by $100,000s,” and “made me realize what is my part and what isn’t,” and claim coaching is “the best thing you could do for yourself.”

Jane Cranston is an executive career coach. She works with success-driven executives, managers and leaders to reach their potential, better manage their boss and staff, as well as develop a career strategy to reach goals and aspirations. Jane is the author of Great Job in Tough Times a step-by-step job search system. Click here to subscribe to her twice monthly Competitive Edge Report.