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07/22/2026

COACHABLE MOMENT, by Coach Karen: My Love-Hate Relationship with PowerPoint

About 20 years ago, I was asked to design a PowerPoint presentation for a local seminar. I knew how to craft a slide-deck, and wanted to accommodate the request for a visual beyond my detailed outline. It was an illuminating experience.

Anyone who regularly creates and uses these slide-decks understands what was about to happen. Please note that both the detailed outline and PowerPoint were provided to participants as handouts.

As I started my seminar, I noticed when a slide was forwarded, someone would ask me to go back to the previous slide. Despite pointing to the same slides provided to them in the handouts for reference, they would still want it back on the screen.

I kept each slide short, with only three-to-four bullet points, or abbreviated example and took plenty of time to cover the information. This wasn’t my first rodeo.

The constant pleas for going back to the past slides created a bit of havoc. I was so shocked by the behavior it took me a few moments to formulate an answer to their request that allowed me to move forward efficiently. My seminars are typically one-to-two hours for this organization, so I have time to cover a subject in detail.

My clients experience similar issues in doing their presentations for executives, potential clients, and at conferences, but why? Well, we’re a visual society and people like colorful stuff. Paper outlines aren’t as exciting, even if they contain colorful images. It’s all about the “screen” even if that screen is projected on a wall. That’s why Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, etc., are so alluring.

Since that day, I tell attendees up front why they are getting an outline and not a PowerPoint. Most people nod their heads yes, because they’ve experienced the mayhem too! Participants have a detailed two-to-four-page outline they can follow along with and take notes. A seminar goes smoothly, and a workshop can have interaction without a hypnotic slide drawing attention away from the topic at hand.

Ironically, the individuals saying they never see this behavior are often the ones asking for the slides to be revisited. They don’t even realize this is happening. I’ve personally observed this conduct in seminars and workshops I attend, and yes, it makes me giggle.

Try the detailed outline, explain why you aren’t doing PowerPoint (unless it is required), and eliminate the need for extra work. Whether you write/type every word to be spoken out, or do framework notes, they are easily manipulated into an outline from a half-page to 4+ pages, depending on the length of the presentation, workshop, or class you are delivering. Just give them to the class and go!

Avoid the spellbinding nature of a slide-deck and give your participants something with concrete detail where they can also take notes. It’s a win-win for everyone, and my seminar participants love the detailed outline for notetaking. To more effective presentations.

07/15/2026

COACHABLE MOMENT, by Coach Karen: Use Social Media Strategically, not to Share Every Thought.

A colleague, Susan Geary, recently wrote a post on LinkedIn attempting to discourage jobseekers from complaining about the search process and scolding recruiters on social media. As she said, it will not make you a desirable candidate. Here is my answer that might also help you or your friends in a job search:

It's such a temptation for jobseekers. I tell them their social media is to be used strategically, not to complain about their search, a specific interview, an interviewer, or anyone else. Also, not there to complain about the current or past President, hot-button issues, your family, get into arguments with others, etc.

Social media is there for communication, and it should be overall positive with the exception of a death of a friend or family member, or other life change mentions. Those of us who understand the background search know that nothing is hidden, and you can back into their comments and pictures easily if you know the hacks.
Ultimately, keeping things positive will result in a new job, quicker.

Weekly, I have a client, potential client, friend, family member, or acquaintance telling me another horror story of a person who had no discipline on social media and lost a job. Sometimes they were already working for the company, sometimes they were just in the interview process. It can be just a singular post, and a history of posts that doomed them, but also can be the unbridled posts of close friends and family members.

Use the following rules:

1) If you wouldn't say it in front of a boss, religious institution members, your grandmother, and in a public presentation with 1000's of attendees simultaneously, don't say it online. Have those conversations privately.
2) Wait 24 hours before commenting, you might decide you are better off saying nothing, or perhaps forget about commenting altogether.
3) Disconnect from connections over-sharing without a governor, it can be just temporarily until you have a new job.

To jobseekers and anyone on social media, please use it responsibly and understand the ramifications to you, your family and friends, when you don’t! To a better job search!

07/02/2026

COACHABLE MOMENT, by Coach Karen: Why the Summer Is a Great Time to Search for a Job?

Every year, coaches and resume writers hear myriad explanations as to why a job search is useless during the summer. This assumption is WRONG!

There are always positions being posted. It doesn’t matter what time of year, what holiday is coming up, or how the job market is, there are openings available. I even read a post today stating that companies are already starting to rehire for positions they downsized for AI, and that will continue to increase into 2027 and beyond.

A job hunt certainly isn’t easy but stopping your search for the summer or the last two months of the year, just means you lose out on positions that are available. If you are willing to do the work, you can reap the rewards during a season where few people really take their search seriously.

Schedule your job hunt, so you are only applying during the primary days of Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, preferably in the morning (lots of research on this tactic). Monday and Friday can be spent looking at postings and tailoring your resume and cover letter for each position. Now you have your customized resumes and cover letters ready for the application process on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.

Organize your search to optimize time of application and for targeted and strategic review of postings. This organization can keep you from “doomjobbing”, a term now used for jobseekers applying to any posting that looks good (shiny objects). It’s anxiety and frustration driven, doesn’t produce anything except making you look and feel productive. That productivity is deceptive and costly. Ultimately, it will create even more frustration and anxiety, and worst of all, no job.

So, polish that resume, and get your search going this summer. Take advantage of what so many jobseekers won’t, available jobs. To you, and your new job!

06/25/2026

COACHABLE MOMENT, by Coach Karen: Burnout, the Invisible Threat

Burnout is becoming rampant in the workforce, it’s harmful and can literally kill you. It’s the cause of heart issues, anxiety, high blood pressure, and depression. Burnout is caused by lack of training, micromanagement, overwhelm in the amount of work, taking work home constantly, too many hours, and issues at home including caring for a sick parent or going through a life change like a divorce or spousal death.

Estimates I have seen range from 40% to over 60% of the workforce operating at some level of burnout. Here’s some advice to help:

1) Determine if the company or your boss is creating the issue? If so, it is time to search for a new job.
2) Are you dissatisfied with your job, and want a new career? Time for a Career Coach, or if you know what you want to do as a new career, get a resume together, any professional development or certification needed, and start the job search.
3) If you are overwhelmed with work, talk to your boss, and see if there is a way to automate, streamline, or reduce the workload.
4) If you are dealing with family care issues, like caring for an aging parent, see if your company has resources, or seek out a legitimate and experienced Elder Coach / Elder Care Coach who can help you navigate the situation.
5) Family care, whether parent or child, or even spouse, could also benefit from FMLA, and help you feel more in control.
6) If the work situation is significantly and negatively impacting your mental health, seek out counseling. There are low-cost services available if you lack insurance coverage.
7) Take your vacation! Many employees and managers think they can’t take their vacation, leaving hundreds of millions, possibly billions of hours never used nationwide on an annual basis. This is a false narrative in your head and contributing to the burnout. Your vacation time is there for a reason, take it, even if it’s only a staycation!!!

Don’t just let the situation keep spiraling until you quit due to frustration, suffer a mental health breakdown, or make yourself physically sick. Life is too short to allow a bad situation to continue. To you, taking control of your career and health.

If you need help with resume writing, career coaching, or other related services, call Coach Karen at 816-942-3019, or email [email protected] and she will get back to you. Always include your phone number, city and state (for time zone), and services of interest in the email.

06/18/2026

COACHABLE MOMENT, by Coach Karen: Replacing Employees with AI? Turns Out AI Costs More!

I’ll admit to laughing when this Nerd Wallet article showed up in my email. Gee, who knew that AI might be really expensive.

In the Nerd Wallet article, an executive at Nvidia stated “the cost of AI computing is far beyond the cost of the employees… and Amos Bar-Joseph, CEO of Swan AI said on LinkedIn that the company’s AI bill hit $113,000 for a single month of data for a four-person team.”.

The article goes on to say “In some ways, this feels like an alternate reality. Weren’t we promised that AI could replace various human work tasks – more productively, more efficiently, and (importantly) more cheaply.”. Clearly, we’ve been misled!

First, there’s a subscription cost per employee or small group. Next, you’re paying for increased usage with a new, more expensive subscription. Let’s assume AI boosts output, according to the article, “the labor savings may not materialize, because human workers still have to supervise, verify, and coordinate the technology.”. Houston, I think we’ve been hornswoggled!

Some mid-sized companies are banning any AI use due to high cost, employee overuse or overreliance, inaccurate research results, security issues (it can be hacked and used to hack you), compliance problems, untracked vibe coding, and potential for AI service shutdowns. This is just the start of companies prohibiting or significantly limiting AI in workplaces.

Lastly, Nils Gilman, editor-in-chief of Berggruen Press at the Berggruen Institute posits “you may be getting more productivity, but not out of fewer people, as everybody is becoming a middle manager of their team of bots.”.

So, what’s the takeaway? Well, you’ve dismantled a portion of your workforce, calling it “restructuring” but it’s costing even more. Wow, how did you not know this? Was the true cost never analyzed, or did you just hide the analysis because you wanted a shiny new object called AI and didn’t want to be perceived as not “keeping up with the Jones’”.

Your quest for higher productivity, and “pretty” new technology, caused a lot of pain to a lot of people unnecessarily, and calls into question your judgment. Instead of using AI responsibly, you went wild like a frat kid during spring break. Hope it’s all worth it when you get a pink slip and your investors show up at the door with pitchforks and torches.

SOURCE: MSN/Nerd Wallet, What Happens When AI Costs More Than Employees? by Kate Ashford

If you need help with resume writing, career coaching, or other related services, call Coach Karen at 816-942-3019, or email [email protected] and she will get back to you. Always include your phone number, city and state (for time zone), and services of interest in the email.

06/17/2026

COACHABLE MOMENT, by Coach Karen: Job Boards Stealing Your Personal Data?

I started speaking about this issue in the early 2000’s at seminars and workshops. I would show the privacy statements from large job boards and social media venues to the attendees. They were horrified!

To this day, I make sure my clients understand that their resumes should not be posted to a job board or social media site and they should instead sign up for notifications with email only. Why, because your information isn’t even remotely safe. Go read the privacy statements yourself. My caution is backed up by recent findings in a report from Incognito:

1) “Incognito report finds leading job sites sell sensitive user data, often without awareness.”
2) “Zip Recruiter, LinkedIn, and Monster ranked highest for collecting/sharing practices.”
3) “Millions of US job seekers are at risk, with only 7% expressing concern over privacy exposure.”

Well, what do we think all those AI Data Centers are for – they exist to take our personal info and monetize it! You should be worried. I haven’t even addressed how often they may have been breached by hackers and cyberattacks.

These companies aren’t concerned about your privacy as long as they can make money from your information. Unfortunately, we are the ones who pay for it.

While we can’t totally stop it, we can impact it. First, I recommend an email newsletter subscription to Kurt the CyberGuy at cyberguy.com. He recommends tools and tips to help you, most of them free.

Second, never post your resume to a job board, instead go to the company or retained-search firm’s site and post it there. Sign up for job board email notifications only so you know what new jobs are available.

Third, if you have put your resume on a job board before, go take it off right now and delete your account.

Fourth, use social media site privacy options.

Lack of concern about privacy is to your detriment. Don’t make yourself a victim, become empowered to take control of your personal information and your job search.

Source: YahooTech: Experts Say Some Job Search Platforms are Stealing Personal Data from Job Seekers, by Sead Fadilpasic, June 15, 2026.

06/17/2026

COACHABLE MOMENT, by Coach Karen: L&D Is Not a Cost Center, It's Your Future!

A recent survey by 1Huddle shows a trend that will hurt companies in the long run. At issue – “a 96% cut in the total number of director and senior-level positions in talent development or training, according to 1Huddle’s analysis of more than 57 million corporate onboarding and training sessions.”. A huge survey with major implications.

If employees are properly trained, with original, current L&D content tailored to organizational needs, they perform at a higher level. Ironically, executives complain about deficient employee skills, but downsize the one department that can help. Lack of training extends to your frontline management, and now you require them to instruct staff in everything from business writing to AI.

Newsflash: middle managers struggle just to get performance reviews done. Without any structure, without any support, now you demand they become trainers, AND managers, coaches, analysts, AND do work their employees can’t get done. As Sam Caucci, CEO of 1Huddle says in the article “That’s redistribution without infrastructure”.

Caucci states he “expects reductions in senior talent development roles to continue throughout 2026… until companies realize they’ve destroyed their ability to scale.”.
It’s simple, you sacrifice now for increased profit and revenue, forfeiting so much down the road. As an executive your job is to “mind the company store” and keep your employees trained, not to screw up its future.

Furthermore, expecting employees to seek out learning during personal time is just silly. Which platform? What courses? Plus, they don’t have the time or money. It’s incumbent on you to offer proper onboarding and ongoing professional development during business hours.

Stop looking only at cost and start considering downstream impact of that expense on future revenue and profit. If you continue this trend, most companies will be behind the curve, and many will be gone in five years!

Source: HRExecutive.com Newsletter, dated 06/12/26: 96% of orgs eliminated senior L&D positions this year, new data reveals, by Jill Barth

06/10/2026

COACHABLE MOMENT, by Coach Karen: RAGE QUITTING

Whether walking into your boss’s office and telling them off, or leaving in a tizzy right in front of your coworkers, rage quitting isn’t new. However, it is now in vogue!

I get it, you’ve had enough of the crazy hours, bad bosses, and doing the work of three people. Nonetheless, this can have unanticipated negative ramifications on your future career. Your world is smaller than you think!

Imagine walking into an interview or doing a video interview several years from now, and on the other end is someone who saw the meltdown, or worse your old boss. Think it won’t happen to you, you’re naïve.

After 26+ years in this industry, I have horror stories about unexpected interviewers. What about interviewers talking about you outside of interviews? They could be speaking to former colleagues and bosses you don’t realize they know and getting the 411 on your behavior.

If you quit, do it right:

1) Give two weeks’ notice.
2) Can’t give two weeks’ notice, then clean out your desk, and calmly walk into the boss’s office and say the following: “I appreciate the opportunity that you have given me here, but at this time I must tender my resignation effective immediately.” Protect yourself by printing the same thing out on paper, sign and date, and formally hand it to them. Don’t give reasons, get into an argument, let them bully you, or start a scene.

Be careful before giving notice if the “rage” is transient. Is the situation really so bad you can’t stay while job searching? Weigh the potential effects of your actions away from work, to make the best choice. You won’t get UNEMPLOYMENT! You may need to get a part-time job while searching for a new, full-time job. Know the consequences and decide how to move forward before you resign.

If you find discontentment, anger, rage, etc., setting in – get that resume updated, and start a job search now. Better to leave on your terms, thoughtfully and in a positive manner versus a torrent of temper. To making better career decisions!

If you need help with resume writing, career coaching, or other related services, call Coach Karen at 816-942-3019, or email [email protected]. Always include your phone number, city and state (for time zone), and services of interest in the email.

05/21/2026

COACHABLE MOMENT, by Coach Karen: Take that Vacation!

It can be a huge struggle for people to take vacation or even just a few days off. Employees and management often feel that work and accompanying emails will pile up so much that it won’t be worth the time off. However, I highly advise my clients, and you, to unplug, get away, and stop thinking about work, as it will be there when you get back.

Know that being refreshed from a vacation, will mean more productivity, a better attitude, and more focus. It can also mean clarity in how to handle your current work situation – meaning you may decide to look for another job.

I assure you that you will have the ability to get through those emails and any extra work needing your attention when you return. Everyone has extra work when they get back from a vacation, so you are no exception. It’s all about perspective.

No vacations or days off, and burnout will soon follow. Many a client, potential client, or seminar participant has told me about the anti-anxiety and blood pressure medication they now take because of workplace stress. I ask several questions, but one of them is “when did you last take a vacation?”. The typical answer is “I can’t” but the fact is, you must!

One last thing, a tip to truly be refreshed when you get back to the office. Always give yourself two full days off at home after coming back from a vacation away from home. Trust me, you will be thankful for the recovery time! To you, being more relaxed, and spending quality time with your family, friends, or yourself!

If you need help with resume writing, career coaching, or other related services, call Coach Karen at 816-942-3019, or email [email protected] and she will get back to you. Always include your phone number, city and state (for time zone), and services of interest in the email.

05/18/2026

COACHABLE MOMENT, by Coach Karen: No, Your Parents Can’t Come to Your Job Interview!

Recently, several articles and television reports have been discussing a new, and disturbing trend. Parents are not just driving their Gen Z teenager or adult children to interviews but going into the interviews with them. They answer questions for the children and insist that they be hired. This is beyond the pale. It needs to stop.

Your children will never develop into fully functional adults if you continue to infantilize them and remain overbearing helicopter parents. If they are teenagers or adults, they need to learn how the world works and earn their own way! Your actions are destructive and irrational.

To the Gen Z reading this article – do your own interviewing and secure your own jobs. You will be better for it!

Now, if your parents just want to introduce you to a hiring manger they know or “grease the wheels” a little bit with someone in their network to help you get the interview – go for it. If they can get you an internship at their company, that is more than appropriate. But this is where the “help” stops.

Parents, let your children grow up, and become the amazing adults they were meant to be, and you in your heart want them to be. I know it’s hard, you want to make the way easier, but there is a difference between help and unhealthy interference.

Becoming an adult is hard, but knowing you earned a job yourself, as I found out two young Gen Z friends of mine did today, will make you so very proud, and be worthy of true celebration. To your children becoming adults and spreading their wings!

If you need help with resume writing, career coaching, or other related services, contact Coach Karen at [email protected] or 816-942-3019.

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