As a job seeker, having a blog is a great way to develop a reputation, share expertise and build brand awareness. ...
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Career Management
Are You Compliant or Engaged?
Daniel H. Pink's book Drive is a fascinating study on what motivates us. He sites reputable studies that prove that money is not the best motivator for creative work. If you understand where the US ...
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Fast, Smart and Flexible
From the words and wisdom of Seth Godin:
The networked revolution is creating huge profits, significant opportunities and a lot of change. What it's not doing is providing millions of brain-dead, ...
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Can Our Emotions Make Us Irrational
Our mind plays crazy tricks on us sometimes. The most intelligent people don't always make the most intelligent decisions. That is because our mind is over-ridden by our emotions.
What do you say ...
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Your Summit Awaits
“It is not the mountains we conquer but ourselves.” ~Sir Edmund Hillary
We need to learn to get out of our own way sometimes. It is really amazing the things I've put off because of fear. I hear ...
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Taking Summer Vacation, Turn Off and Tune Out
Taking a vacation should be on your list of things to do. And vacations are the time to turn off and tune out. ...
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Reading Again…
Instead of selecting "beach novels", I've been busy reading "work" related books this summer. While on vacation, I got plenty of comments and a few dirty looks while reading a book that clearly wasn't ...
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The Way We Work Is Changing
Time Magazine covered the topic in-depth in "The Future of Work".
If you want the Reader's Digest version, literally, they covered it in "Quick Study: The Future of Work"
Seth ...
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Summary Sunday
Happy Father's Day to all the dads out there! I hope you enjoy your special day!Instead of just listing posts this week, I am sharing 5 of my favorite career blogs. Finding a blog is ...
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Driving Change from the Bottom
Can change really happen from the bottom and move up the ladder? Do "grass-roots" efforts succeed? I attended the local meetup of "Linchpins are Everywhere Raise the ...
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Finding Professional Development Ops- Part 2
Yesterday's post talked about identifying skills gaps and the need to develop a training plan or road map of what development you are looking for.
Today's post is just the beginning of where to go ...
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Seeking Training- Part 1
This week I mentioned the decrease in company training budgets in one of my posts. The result...WE need to pursue our own personal and professional development. So easily said. ...
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The Only Constant is Change
Even the ancient Greek philosophers such as Diogenes Laertius knew that change was inevitable. Little did they know how fast changes would occur in the world today.
With that said, how do we accept ...
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Personal Development Is Dying
What happens to the training budgets and staff when a company is in financial trouble? They are cut, right.What kind of budget does a small company (1-100 employees) have for training there ...
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Leading A Team of One
We all lead a team of one (sometimes more). Being a leader doesn't mean that you are directing/managing/guiding others. It means having an awareness and practicing the competencies that make you the ...
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Going Up or Going Out
The cream always rises to the top, or so the saying goes. Today's organizations are becoming flatter and so is our world. This poses a problem for those career enthusiasts who wan to ...
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Monitoring Media: A Must for Career Management
I remember about 10 years ago, the only way to get press release, financial and other news about companies was to go to the library. You would sift through periodicals and perhaps even read articles ...
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I Think I Can
Do you remember the story of the "Little Engine That Could"? Imagine my surprise when my Star-Wars-loving, DS Nintendo-toting son, brought that book home with a gleam of excitement in ...
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Summary Sunday
In honor of the droves of folks who have secured new jobs, I thought I would share some of the posts I've read that have a connection to managing your career.
Eight Thoughts on Elegant Leadership ...
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What Mountain Will You Climb Today?
OK, Procrastinate Instead!
Is there an obstacle you are facing this week? How will you overcome it? What will you need to do the job?
Before you decide to tackle any of these, take some time and ...
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Coasting Through Your Career
Looking back over my work (not sure if I can truly call it a career), I've been lucky and I've been stupid. Hindsight is a wonderful thing. If I had only known then what I ...
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They Don’t Teach Job Search, Do They?
When you were in high school or college for that matter, when did someone teach you how to search for a job?At my college there was a career center. It was tucked away in a building I never ...
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The Trio Every Worker Must Read
Linchpin, Crush It and Trust Agents ... just finished them all. What a perfect trio. You've heard me say that the world of work is changing. These three books helped me understand that better and ...
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6 Wishes for College Graduates
This is the time of year when college seniors begin to really think about what they'll do after they graduate. Some, perhaps few, have jobs lined up already. Finding a job is difficult, ...
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A New Book. The same message.
You all are in trouble...I've started reading another book "Trust Agents" by Chris Brogan. What this means is that I am going to be cramming his ideas down your throats ...
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Practicing Your Art
What is your art? What is it that you do to please yourself and others? That is the work you are meant to do. We all have an art. Truly, we do or we did before it was ...
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So Many Things to Fix, So Little Time
Are you thinking? Do you wonder? I constantly find myself trying to solve problems that are beyond my control- or are they? I get so discouraged when I hear people say "But it has always ...
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Putting It Out There
A great number of Boomers are not comfortable putting themselves out there. They are far different from the narcissistic Gen Y who seek opportunities to share information about themselves ...
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What Are You Reading?
Yesterday I received a package in the mail from my friends at Amazon! I have been waiting for this box for a week and it finally arrived. Like a child on Christmas morning, I tore open the packaging ...
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Innovation vs Expertise
Here are some questions I am trying to get my arms and head around:
What are employers looking for?
What will make you a better leader?
What will take your career farther?
What will make you ...
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