Flight School

Who do you relate to most?
What are your real strengths?
Where do you want to go?
How to make a flight plan.

Mike Cerre exchanging his “flight plan” ideas with Caroline Brecker (L) and Nancy Collamer (R) as a guest speaker at the Third Half Advisor’s kick off event in Greenwich, CT.

Campbell Gerrish-Third Half Advisors

Campbell Gerrish created Third Half Advisors gatherings for professionals navigating the uncharted “third half” of their lives.

Leadership coach, Cindy Levine, walked us through some of the transformational conditions we’re likely to pass through while gaining altitude in our new involvements. Intermittent turbulence and vertigo expected, but only temporary.

Vision cards from 21/64

Starting with a deck of graphic vision cards, career coach Frank Faeth challenged us to select five images that energized and spoke to us the most. A key exercise for sparking our imaginations, it was a way for identifying our interests and priorities instinctively.

Polly Chandler-Gallup Certified Strengths Coach

Equally revealing was how Polly Chandler led us through a CliftonStrengths Assessment developed by a WWII aviator, turned behavioral psychologist,

Polly is a Gallup Certified Life Coach who helps her clients identify and leverage what they’re really good at, rather than waste time and energy on what they’re not.

Turning abstract notions into a practical action plan is where I usually crash. Nothing like some whiteboard wizadry by management pros for organizing the groups’ concerns and suggestions into a checklist for all of us to follow.

Nancy Collamer, author of Second Act Careers, and I shared some of the real life transitions we’ve been chronicling in our work to add some variety and human inspiration to the discussion. Our stories were almost as good as some of the participants’ like the insurance executive, turned metal sculptor, and a management consultant taking over a Maine bakery.

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