Every week I check dozens of “career” blogs and other online publications, looking for things that will help you find a job, get promoted, develop your skills, and keep everything in perspective and balance. Here’s the pick of the lot for this week. I’m pointing you to items about managing you professional image, avoiding career [...]
The headline in my Charlotte Observer this morning says it all. “Thousands of Charlotte layoffs likely after Wachovia’s stunning fall.” There are headlines like that all around the country these days.
The financial crisis means there will be lots of layoffs. There will be mergers, too. What do you do if you’re in one of the [...]
Every week I check dozens of “career” blogs and other online publications, looking for things that will help you find a job, get promoted, develop your skills, and keep everything in perspective and balance. Here’s the pick of the lot for this week. I’m pointing you to items about making the most of bad situations, [...]
“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
Albert Einstein
It’s no secret that leaders have inflated views of their skills and competence–we’ve known this for a long time as it’s a consistent finding in all 360-degree feedback research1. What is simply amazing is the gap between self-perception and reality.
The prevalence of self-enhancement is not [...]
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTIONER
Title: Your Next Job
Competency: self-development
Who benefits: individuals searching for new job opportunities, coaches
Consultant Usage: coaches, internal outplacement consultants
What’s it about? “May you live in interesting times.” This ancient proverb is meant as a curse. We may now be living in interesting times. Just read the business pages…or most days the front [...]
“I can believe anything provided it is incredible.”
Oscar Wilde
In a new study, 61.3% of the public and 20.2% of professionals believe that a miracle can a save person in a persistent vegetative state and 57.4% of the public said divine intervention can save a person when doctors think treatment just isn’t going to work, compared [...]
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTIONER
Title: Positive Leadership
Competencies: leadership, self-development
Who benefits: project leads, team leaders, supervisors, managers, executives
Consultant Usage: general education, coaching education, referrals, training materials
What’s it about? I have been coming across the term “positive leadership” in my never ending search for material for my postings. I decided to delve a bit deeper.
My ramblings seemed [...]
“Honesty may be the best policy, but it’s important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second best policy.”
George Carlin
A recent 2008 survey from Blessing White (The State of Employee Engagement) asked 7,500 employees on four continents about how much they trust their managers and senior managers. The results suggested that 47% [...]
The economic idea of work is that you put in effort and time and your employer gives you money. But compensation is not that simple.
There are many things, both economic and otherwise, that can compensate you meaningfully for you labor and contribution.
Here’s a Thought List of compensation options. It’s not a checklist. The idea is [...]
This is an updated version of an article that originally appeared in December 2007 on the Tatum Marketing blog.
Back in December 2007, “rough economic waters” was more a predication than a reality and preparation was key. Now that those predictions have turned out to be unfortunately true, it’s time to act.
In tough economic times, [...]