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 what to do when you’re offered [...]
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTIONER
Title: Get Rid of the Performance Review!
Competencies: performance management, performance appraisal
Who benefits: managers/supervisors, employees, organization
Consultant Usage: organizational development and human resource development
What’s it about? One of my least favorite authors has written a short article about one of my least favorite topics. Oddly, the results are favorable.
The author is arrogant and [...]
Personal Development
Britannica Blog presents Suicide on the Internet: What Is Our Responsibility? posted at Britannica Blog, saying, “Last Friday, November 21, Abraham Biggs, a 19-year-old community college student in Florida, committed suicide on a live webcast with a virtual audience of over 1,500 viewers.”
Bill Urell presents Codependency And Addiction Recovery: Detaching With Love – [...]
Make your marketing messages pop tip #2: Avoid the intimidating term paper look-and-feel by keeping your paragraphs brief.
I don’t know about you, but I make an unconscious decision to set aside any reading material that (at first glance) looks heavy or academic. Of course when I set it aside, it’s with the full intention that [...]
Social networks are made up of connections between people. No matter what you read, social networks do not have names like Facebook or LinkedIn.
They just provide technology. Technology can map a social network. Technology can make it easier for you to track and use your social network.
That’s important to remember because it’s the people in [...]
“Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.”
Mark Twain
After being laied off, employees were 35% less likley than before to become actively involved or participate in church, community groups, and charitable organizations. And, not many returned after they [...]
Changes are in the wind – among them, changes in how we communicate.
I’ve discovered that Twitter is a good avenue for finding out about things that I might want to look into more closely. The folks I follow on Twitter keep me up-to-date with the latest trends, ideas, and topics. I get to pick and [...]
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 what you need to get hired [...]
This is really off topic from SEO, but I do want to get it off my chest. I hate it when people call for websites to be built with “web 2.0 designs”.
“Web 2.0” is a buzzword often used by executives and managers who haven’t bothered to think through what they really want. Usually what they [...]
With a huge excess supply in media available, many marketers who were formerly forced to buy media on a cost-per-impression (or CPM) basis now find media firms ready to talk about pay for performance (or cost per lead). Gary Kreissman presents a 5-point approach to performance buying and a way to shave serious dollars off [...]