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Valerie Gonyea

VALERIE GONYEA
CAREER ENCOURAGEMENT OFFICER

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COURAGEOUS Careering!

Why Don't Workplaces Have Anti-Bully Policies?

Recently, I have had the pleasure of working on a special project with a woman I used to work for several years ago.  It has been great working with her again.  Not only is she smart and funny and warm, but she is clear and open about her skills, her own limitations and her expectations. [...]

Career Planning & Strategy

The Complete Career Campaign ™: Defining My Offer, Designing My Life

This is a very exciting week for me! I recently took on a big challenge and taught myself how to use Adobe’s Dreamweaver software to build my own webpage. I have now officially launched the Career Courageously site.

The process of building a webpage is much more than learning code and [...]

COURAGEOUS Careering!

You Know You Have a Good Idea When……

This week I attended two networking events.  One of the groups hosting an event has my membership listed under my own company name, Career Courageously. The content of the presentation, as it turned out, was about networking….a topic near and dear to my heart.

During the presentation, I found myself spontaneously [...]

Career Planning & Strategy

Courageous Careering – Story #2

People often ask me what “career courageously” means. Well, it means more than one thing but if I were to sum it all up into its simplest form, I would say it means taking action in your career to get the results you seek to achieve. The courageous careerer is not satisfied when confronted [...]

Career Planning & Strategy

Courageous Careering – Story #1

I really enjoy discovering stories about people who completely change their lives. I admire people who make a plan and stick to it in order to make it happen. That is a fundamental philosophy of this blog…to career courageously through life and to not let people tell you that you can’t do something. As [...]