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Michael Alan Tate – Finding A Life-Giving Career

Michael Alan TateMichael Alan Tate is president and CEO of On the Same Page Consulting. He works with successful executives, entrepreneurs, and technical professionals who are seeking a simple action-focused plan to effectively manage career transitions, keep teams on the same page, and prepare for positive leadership succession.

With over 20 years’ experience as an executive coach, consultant, and strategist, Mike knows that successful people want to navigate the murky waters of career transition as quickly and effectively as possible.

Drawing on his own experience, Mike developed a unique consulting strategy, in which he helps each of his clients create a powerful and succinct strategic plan, incorporating prioritized
actions and accountabilities set in a whole-life perspective — all in just 24 hours.

Mike’s work goes above and beyond standard executive coaching. He understands the power of a career transition, and he knows its impact reaches beyond the office threshold. In his latest book, The White Shirt, Mike speaks not only to those facing career transitions, but also to their loved ones (spouses, partners, parents, children, siblings, friends), who can and should be involved in the process of designing a career plan. Whether graduating from college, struggling to find a job, re-entering the workforce, changing careers, or preparing for retirement, readers will be inspired to successfully navigate their transition while maintaining a healthy, happy balanced life.

Michael Alan Tate Vroom Veer Stories

  • The White Shirt was designed to help people make the pivotal, yet often challenging, transition into a new career or different career.
  • People can make a meaningful transition into a new career at any stage in life – whether graduating from college, seeking a change at mid-career, reentering the workforce or re-purposing after retirement.
  • Connecting to our Past can lead us to Career purpose: an essential step for finding career fulfillment at your current employer or somewhere else.
  • Submitting resumes online has a 75% failure rate in finding you the job of your dreams – this approach probably won’t even land you an interview, and is guaranteed to leave you discouraged and frustrated.
  • Talking with Human Resources professionals, recruiters, or personnel agencies is a good way to find a job short-term, but not a job that fits you long-term.
  • You’ll have greater success if you ask people for advice than if you ask them for a job. “Ask for a job, and you’ll get advice; ask for advice, and you’ll get a job.”
  • Finding a new career can be fun or frustrating. It all depends on your strategy.
  • Includes a step-by-step guide for readers to develop a 1-page career plan they can use instead of a resume to help their network of people help them find a job that fits.
  • The only career-planning book designed to be read with another person: (friend, relative, or mentor)
  • What the movie “City Slickers” can teach us about that feeling you get when you are stuck in a cubical not likely your job
  • Michael worked in a out placement job helping people who were downsized find a new job; worse place to be when you are looking for a new job
  • Scott Adams of Dilbert fame says that your real job is always finding your next better job; not the job you were hired to do

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The White Shirt Book (Free Workbook)