HOT READS FOR THE PRACTIONER
Title: A Primer in Positive Psychology
Competency: self-development
Who benefits: any individual
Consultant Usage: important background material for all HRD consultants
What’s it about? I woke up grumpy this morning. Didn’t sleep well. Blah, blah, blah. So am I going be Captain Grumps for 16 hours and take it out on those I come in [...]
When I was just starting out, I admit I was taken aback when my first big prospect (who came to me through a referral) called and started his conversation by saying, “Yeah, I was looking at your website…” Fortunately, I had put enough information out there so he could finish his sentence with “… and [...]
The economy is down. Layoffs have decimated the workforce. If you’re one of those out of work or worried if you’ll have work at this time next week, it’s natural to consider a career change.
When the Great Depression hit, my grandfather’s business failed, along with many others. His career change was going to work for [...]
“The quality of leadership, more than any other single factor, determines the success or failure of an organization.”
Fred Fiedler & Martin Chemers
It’s not surprising that research suggests Unequivocally that leadership has tremendous impact on talent engagement, retention and productivity1. Can leaders directly affect the health of talent to the extent that they are quickly [...]
You may have heard the term ‘Landing Page’ and wondered what that means.
A Landing Page is a sub-page – not the Home Page – which is designed to target or focus on a specific topic. Think of them as additional doors to the website. Most people come in the front door, but some people come [...]
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 branding yourself online, tips for college [...]
Yesterday a client sent me a great article from the Harvard Business Review called In a Downturn, Provoke Your Customers. I urge you to read it.
The premise of the article – which is written by Philip Lay, Todd Hewlin and Geoffrey Moore – is that you can motivate executives to fund the purchase of your [...]
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTIONER
Title: The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything
Competencies: self-development, coaching talent, mentoring, empowering others, performance management, creativity, innovation
Who benefits: individuals, supervisors and managers, coaches
Consultant Usage: highly recommended for executive coaches
What’s it about? Today, dear reader, you shall be treated to an extremely short posting reviewing a new book.
The book is [...]
The article in CFO is titled: “The Next Stage.” It gets a little bit right and a lot wrong. Here’s the teaser quote.
“Want to ascend to a true leadership role? Be prepared to let go of what you’re good at.”
The part that’s right is that personal growth demands leaving your comfort zone. It demands that [...]
“When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.”
Joyce Brothers
I just read a research paper that suggested that marriage might not improve men’s health as once thought1. In a review of data gathered between 1972 and 2003 (more than one million men and women), men who never married reported overall health about [...]