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 my pick of the lot for this week. I’m pointing you to items about “shoulding” or not, sharpening your skills, [...]
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTIONER
Title: Sophie’s World
Competencies: self-development, critical thinking skills, ethics
Who benefits: students of any age
Consultant Usage: self-development! self insight!!
What’s it about? Today’s posting is about an introduction to philosophy thinly disguised as a mysterious novel. My bosses, who are normally a tolerant lot, may fire me for writing about something that on the [...]
“We change, whether we like it or not”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I read an interesting article in Newsweek the other week on “When DNA is Not Destiny.”
So, just how easy is it to change personality? Do zebras rally lose their stripes?
Despite increasing evidence that most personality traits are highly genetically determined (current estimates suggest as much as 50%) much [...]
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTIONER
Title: Glenn M. Parker
Competency: team building, meeting management
Who benefits: anyone involved in teams or meetings (I think this is just about everyone)
Consultant Usage: practical material for use in consulting
What’s it about? Doris Kearns Goodwin’s Team of Rivals (previously reviewed on this site) is all the rage these days as comparisons of Lincoln [...]
Another addition of leadership and talent management “facts” from all over the world. Some intuitive and some not….what do you think?
1. Of 3,000 hiring professionals and managers surveyed in 2008 by CareerBuilder.com, 49% said they had discovered a lie on a resume sent in for a job opening. In general, candidates exaggerated their past responsibilities [...]
Human Capital Institute Presents:
Webcast » Beyond Burn and Churn: Protecting Your High Performers from Career Burnout
Presenter: Kenneth Nowack Ph.D. Envisia Learning
Ken is Chief Research Officer and President of Envisia Learning, a leading talent management publishing and consulting company. Ken is a licensed psychologist specialzing in talent development, 360 feedback, assessment, leadership, health and wellness. [...]
“We change, whether we like it or not”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I read an interesting article in Newsweek the other week on “When DNA is Not Destiny.”
So, just how easy is it to change personality? Do zebras rally lose their stripes?
Despite increasing evidence that most personality traits are highly genetically determined (current estimates suggest as much as 50%) much [...]
On the subject of keywords, one of the first thoughts that many people have is that they should take their list of keywords and stuff the page with those words as many times as possible.
This is known as keyword ‘cramming’.
While it’s good to place as many keywords as useful on a page, it is very [...]
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 staying positive, the post-interview, job hunting [...]
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about protecting yourself from click fraud, but there are plenty of other ways to waste money with paid search marketing. Judging by the campaign setups we keep seeing from new clients or prospects – some of whom have PPC firms handling their campaigns – the art of wasting [...]