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Tell Your Work Story Well. Land Your Dream Job. Storytelling for Jobseekers
Tell Your Work Story Well. Land Your Dream Job. Storytelling for Jobseekers
Offered by Debbi M.
5.0
Executive Communications Coach | 10,000 Sessions with F 100/500 Clients
Studied at University of California, Berkeley
Works at Google
Description
“It’s not bragging if you can back it up.” So said Muhammad Ali — the late boxer, social activist, and cultural icon known as The Greatest. So true. And yet, many of us resist telling a compelling story when we interview for our dream job, update clients and leaders, write our self-appraisals, even introduce ourselves. We stay vague and general. We bury or omit crown achievements and main points. Or we think in work-flow vs. colorful sentences conveying the human impact. Sound familiar? Even the best and the brightest struggle to tell a compelling story about their work, self promote, or expand on victories in interesting ways. Part of it's our training as engineers, scientists, financiers, and technologists where we learned minimal explanations suffice. Barriers can also run deep, especially when we emerge from cultures discouraging prideful sharing of success. Together, in this workshop, we reveal those gems and quieten any barriers obstructing us. And we write your work story like it's never been written before. We’ll write together your one-liner, bio, and other work descriptions to sound clear, compelling, specific and non-pompous. They'll be grounded in facts with context, color, and woven together with narrative thread in ways AI cannot.
What you'll get from this package
Write a snappy one-liner you will love and want to use right away that distills decades or years of work into a gem that sits on the head of a pin.
Write a concise About section you can repurpose for your LinkedIn, summary of your resume, and absorb as your answer to: Tell me About Yourself.
Find the intriguing gems from your origin story, your firsts, and biggest achievements.
Write excellent stories of your biggest work achievements, the gems in your crown. Practice delivering them.
Learn your blockers to self-promotion or sharing your work story, which often emerge from our youth and then the work culture where we stay the longest.
Additional details
Coaching delivered via live sessions and .
I deliver a lesson, coach with you throughout, and offer asynchronous edits of what we co-write. You gain feedback, kindly delivered, if you wish, on your oral and written delivery of your work story as you have it. You gain access to podcasts and interviews with other experts I've interviewed and frameworks you can apply to any descriptions of your work.
Clients report feeling more confident and fluid on their feet being able to speak to their work and their core accomplishments. Also, many find the context-piece useful, understanding and being able to share how their work fits into the larger industry and their organization. 99% of clients who coach with me on their work story grow in their careers, either through a lateral move, a promotion, or exciting opportunities elsewhere. 100% understand their own blockers on claiming their wins, and backing them up, which becomes life-changing intel.
Services included:
Nonverbal Communication
Cross-Cultural Communication
Negotiation Skills
Effective Communication
Persuasion and Influence
Active Listening
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Welcome! I'm Debbi McCullough from New Zealand, based in Wisconsin. With over 20 years of experience in journalism and communications, I help the best and brightest sound that way: compelling, clear, and strategic communicators. As a Master Certified Coach with the International Coaching Federation and as an Executive Communications Coach for Google, the US Air Force, BlackRock, BP, and Disney, I've hosted around 10, 1000 coaching sessions with top or emerging leaders. I'm expert at helping my clients manage difficult conversations, navigate complexity, and speak and write in clear, concise, and memorable ways. My international background, working in multiple countries including Singapore, Japan, and now the U.S. attracts many clients who are non-native speakers. Additionally, as the CEO and Founder of Hanging Rock, LLC, I've provided writing, editing, and consulting services to prestigious clients such as Carnegie Mellon University, Visa International, and JPMorgan. I've taught business communications at UNC Chapel Hill, Kenan-Flagler Business School and all forms of writing at Chatham University. (18 years total as a professor.) For over 20 years, I've written for top-tier business media including the Economist, the Financial Times, and the Guardian and won a UN Foundation press fellowship. If you seek more original, memorable business communication skills or clues on how to add narrative and story to your messages, that's my sweet spot. Let's level up your communication skills, reclaim your confidence, and take your brand places.
$1,823.53
5h 30m of coaching