It is all about staying ahead of the curve. If you do not stoke a fire, it will burn out, right? So this leads me to ask how do you stoke your enthusiasm for the work you do?
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Career Management
Journaling Your Way to a Better Career
Managing your career requires you to actually attempt to manage it. How easy is it for us to go about our daily lives and not think about what is next or even ask ourselves if we like what we are ...
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Redefining Stability
What is a stable job in today's terms? Does it exist? Instead of lamenting the fact that there are not any stable jobs anymore, can we change our perspective and accept the fact that this doesn't ...
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Social Networks: Do They Help or Hurt Your Career?
I was flipping through Deloitte's 2010 Ethics and Workplace Survey "Trust in the Workplace", and came across this slide. It asks: "Does social networking help to build trust in the workplace?" ...
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Taking Credit Where Credit Is Due
Why is taking credit where credit is due such a difficult thing for you to do? Your career depends on it, so it's time to get over it! ...
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Be The Best You Can Be
I really enjoy reading Peter Weddle's newsletter. He's promoting a concept he calls The Career Activist Republic- how America's best workers achieve lasting success. It is about self empowerment, ...
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What is Career Management Anyway?
Career management is so much more than writing a resume or looking for a new job! It is about making decisions on what you want to do and driving forward to make them a reality. Managing your career ...
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Life Is Short- Live It!
We are on this planet for a finite period of time. Granted, that time is getting longer due to advancements in the medical world. Are you living your dream? Are you really happy? Do you love what ...
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Should I Start A Blog?
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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