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<description><![CDATA[Shaun Kieran consults to organizations and workplaces, coaches supervisors to "coach" their employees, and coaches people who have responsibilities for others: parents, teachers, case managers, human services managers, directors of non-profits, and helpers generally.  He lives and works on the coast of Maine.

He also specializes in Coaching around divorce - learning, coping, recovering from - and moving forward.]]></description>
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<title>Feeling Guilty About the Divorce? Your Kids Still Need a Parent!</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 11:07:29 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It's one kind of problem when parents are oblivious to how strong an impact a divorce has on the kids. It's another problem to allow embarrassment and guilt to prevent them from getting back in the "parenting" saddle, doing the job that needs to be done.]]></description>
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<title>Supervisors and Nepotism: Managing an Employee With Friends or Relatives in High Places</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 11 Feb 2011 13:59:56 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Nepotism and favoritism haven't gone away - even in today's economy. New and line supervisors can feel frustrated and inadequate if they don't respond well to the challenges. The key is to keep your concentration, then begin to use the tools and options at your disposal to systematically address workplace problems as you would with any employee.]]></description>
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<title>Tiger Mom: Are There Alternatives?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The notoriety over the Tiger Mom article and book highlights important and valid cultural differences, but also is a reaction to the dumbing down, declining school performance, and deteriorating character we're seeing in many of our children. This article has some observations and some suggestions stimulated by the sometimes overheated rhetoric associated with discussions generated by Amy Chua's "Tiger Mom."]]></description>
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<title>Parenting Challenge on the High Road - The Ex's New Spouse</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 07:18:00 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When your ex finds a new partner, it can change everything. Feelings can run high, but it all works better when the adults manage themselves, cooperate, and focus on getting it right for the children.]]></description>
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<title>Post Divorce - 3 Ways to Gauge How You're Doing As You Move Through Your Divorce</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:32:03 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Transitioning through a divorce is one of the toughest things an adult will ever do.  But it's even harder if you give in to the "tragedy," and use it as a reason not to notice how you're doing, or whether you're holding yourself to reasonable standards.]]></description>
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<title>Surviving Divorce - Three Reasons to Take the High Road</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:47:42 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Transitioning well through a divorce is one of the toughest things an adult will ever do. Taking the high road, which is hard for some, is actually the most practical way to get past the pain and struggle - and get where you really want to go.]]></description>
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<title>Divorce - How It's Also an Opportunity - Part I</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 08:57:41 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Divorce certainly is a wake-up call that where you thought you were going in your marriage and your life isn't working out that way. Modern life can be so filled with things that have to be gotten done or managed that many people haven't been aware of the toll it's taken. Divorces break into the trance and in addition to yet more things that now have to be done, there are free flowing emotions that can no longer be kept under wraps.]]></description>
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<title>Divorce - Getting the Lessons Right</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 09:32:13 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Divorce is too powerful an episode in anyone's life to just let it go to waste. People who lead serious, productive lives learn from all of their experiences - especially one as primary as the end of their marriage. It's not wallowing, it's not shouldering blame that's not deserved. It's learning about yourself - and life.]]></description>
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<title>Divorce - What Have You Learned?</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 16:28:59 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Divorce can be such a devastating experience for some people that they fail to sort out what really happened in a way that helps them live better. They might rebound into a new relationship that simply repeats the script, or they become bitter, cynical, skittish, untrusting - and miss out on happiness that's there to live. The way for that to NOT happen is to think, feel, and discuss the relationship honestly - and learn.]]></description>
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<title>Divorce - Tell Yourself And the World A &quot;New Story&quot;</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 11:04:17 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[We understand more than ever the power of "story" in shaping productive lives. Positive Psychology and Narrative Psychology study the way humans tend to experience their lives, and those of others, through "real" stories they tell themselves - and that creating good stories, that allow for "updating," is crucial to learning and happiness.]]></description>
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<title>Divorce - Stop the War, Start Living</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 08:36:45 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[There's more nastiness and destructive behavior when marriages dissolve. Not only is it ugly, it's harmful to the participants and the children. Taking the high road is classy, smart, and gets it all over sooner.]]></description>
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<title>Divorced Parents With Kids in Special Ed - The Urgency to Stop the Nonsense</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 09:03:43 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Special Ed either helps your child, or it's a complete waste of time.  The conflict that goes on between some divorced spouses makes it almost impossible to focus on the needs of the kids, and the part parents must play to optimize success.  Stop the nonsense.]]></description>
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<title>Divorce - Handling the First Few Days is Crucial</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:24:08 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The devastation of divorce can be helped considerably if the first few days are handled well. Consultation with someone should focus on handling immediate tasks and challenges well, managing emotions, and then seeking counseling, therapy, or coaching to understand, learn from the experience, and heal.]]></description>
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<title>Divorce - Parenting a Teen While Going Through a Divorce</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 11:40:21 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Everyone knows divorce is devastating to children, of course, but divorce hits teenagers even harder because they're just starting to test the waters and "play act" adult roles - while really still being kids in so many ways. They need as much adult involvement and supervision as is humanly possible, but divorce can be so exhausting and poisonous for the parents that they have even less capacity to cope with all the ups and downs that go with parenting a modern teenager.]]></description>
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<title>Divorce - Six Tips For Navigating Your Divorce</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:06:13 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Divorce is a human disaster only made worse when you don't commit to managing yourself, and being the best person you have in you to be. Here are six basic tips that provide a framework for focusing, containing, and managing your strong feelings.]]></description>
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<title>Parenting Through Divorce - Job #1 - And an Opportunity</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 07:38:32 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Good people feel badly about putting their kids through divorce.  They can also feel extremely anxious, overwhelmed, resentful, inadequate, and unfairly burdened.  As hard as the whole thing can be, it's much harder if you let those feelings get the upper hand.  Divorce is actually an opportunity to focus, do the right thing, learn, and be the person you aspire to be.]]></description>
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<title>Divorce is an Opportunity</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 10:26:26 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA["Yeah, sure!" I can just hear people saying that to themselves when they read the title, and - when I'm in that kind of mood - I can be there too: skeptical about casually painting a smiley face on something as huge as divorce. No matter how solid a citizen you think you are, divorce disrupts the "script," and, if you're not careful, can bring out a dark, ugly reaction that's amazing to witness. ]]></description>
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<title>Divorce - Don't Deny the Hurt</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 11:29:49 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Divorce tests your emotional health, your belief in people, and your hope for a good future. Too often people talk themselves into a way they ought to feel, which isn't what's really true.  That can be dangerous.]]></description>
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<title>Divorce Wisdom - Take the High Road (Even Though It's Hard)</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 13:29:04 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Too many people take the gloves off during a divorce, and end up hurting themselves more than they help themselves. As a practical matter, being "classy" helps you get more of what you need and want. This is the time to be the person you have it in you to be. Your future depends on it.]]></description>
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<title>Coaching Case Managers - Thoughts For a New and Idealistic Mental Health Provider</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:10:33 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Idealism, hope, and clear-eyed reality need to be juggled, then reconciled for someone to have a fulfilling career in the Human Services in the postmodern world.  Alienation and burnout are occupational hazards, and can best be prevented by being self-aware, not too self-important, and adapting to the clients' needs.  A veteran clinician shares some wisdom with someone just starting out.]]></description>
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<title>Supervisors - Be Proactive, It's A Major Key To Managerial Success</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 13:42:12 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Head right toward problems, as soon as possible - be proactive. Be quick to want to know, slow to criticize or assign blame. Frame things as experiments toward getting it right - situations to be understood, and from which to learn.]]></description>
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<title>Supervisors - Know What's Expected, And How Success Will Be Measured</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 11:45:44 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Supervision requires attention to multiple sources of information. Talk to your folks about where they've been, as well as where they'd like to go.  Talk to your own boss, more than once, about expectations and how success will be measured from that perspective. Over the course of several conversations, get a feel for the amount and kinds of pressures coming down from on high, and under what circumstances.]]></description>
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<title>Supervisor's Basic Tip For Success - Learn What Everyone Does</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 11:43:52 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[As a manager, not only should you know what all of your employees do, you should also know how each job connects to the others, and at least theoretically be able to perform them yourself. It's flattering to your employees that you know what they do, which means you also know what they need. Listen, learn, communicate.  A workplace is a mini-culture, and you're a major character in that world.]]></description>
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<title>What Every Supervisor Should Know To Succeed - Set The Example</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 14:46:10 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The successful supervisor sets the tone, and is a major influence on workplace culture. Model what you expect from your employees. Appreciate and admire talent and energy. Give credit where it's due, shoulder blame, especially on behalf of your people to upper management. Be visibly curious, be relaxed, be open to suggestions, communicate an expectation of success for everyone, accept being wrong when it's true - say "thank you" a lot.]]></description>
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<title>New Managers - Walk Around And Meet The People You Supervise</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 16:09:36 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Way too often, the employees' first contact with a new manager is at a staff meeting called to introduce the "new guy."    If you're that "new guy," it's much better all around for you to get out and visit each employee on his or her own turf.  Remember, from the first moment they lay eyes on you, your direct reports are gauging how enthusiastic, overwhelmed, competent, full of yourself, trusting, trustworthy, etc.]]></description>
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<title>Leadership Transition - 8 Tasks Every New Leader Should Accomplish Right Away</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:51:56 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Getting off on the right foot is crucial to a new manager's success.  There are a few simple tasks which help to ensure a positive tone and a solid base of human connections, as well as to facilitate communication of important information - both ways - for moving forward.]]></description>
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<title>Underachieving Smart People - Understanding Their Struggles To Succeed</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 09:53:04 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A high IQ doesn't ensure success. For a variety of reasons, some very smart people have great difficulty carving out lives for themselves. Despite sometimes being arrogant and difficult, very smart people, and those who care about and love them, deserve understanding and help.]]></description>
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<title>Change - Why Is It So Hard For Most Of Us To Change?</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:32:22 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Many people think real change is virtually impossible. That's not true, but there's no getting around how hard it can be.  Still, we've learned a few things about why it's so hard, and what it takes really takes to succeed at change.  ]]></description>
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<title>Line Supervisors - 11 Mistakes to Avoid at Work</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 09:49:38 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Being a line supervisor is hard under the best of circumstances.  Here are a few pitfalls to avoid as a new or front line manager.  It's always best to be positive about being a manager, but sometimes it's good to know what not to do. You don't have to have a natural authoritarian personality to be a good supervisor, but you do have to keep your concentration. ]]></description>
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<title>Stuck Professionals - Hate Your Job? Thrive Or Escape</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 13:23:59 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Many people are "stuck" in jobs they hate, but can't leave for valid reasons.  Even though they can't simply walk away, there are basic strategies for coping which may not be obvious to the distressed employee.  These are the elementary principles for escaping your personal "desert island."]]></description>
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