Personal Development
Nina Capelouto presents Unlock The Chains That Bind You To Your Fears posted at Metaphysical Teachers, saying, “Overcoming the fear of the unknown is a challenging endeavor, but it can be done. If you suffer from a fear of uncertainty, understanding what fear is, and how it affects you, can start you on the [...]
I’ve spent six articles talking about keywords for websites; however the question needs to be asked: are keywords the only factor that impacts the ranking of a website?
The answer is no. Keywords are the foundation for getting a higher ranking on search engine results pages, but they are not the only factor considered. Without good [...]
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 standing out at job fairs, interviews [...]
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTIONER
Title: more decision making books and articles
Competencies:decision making, judgment, self-development
Who benefits: anyone seeking to improve their judgments and/or decision making abilities
Consultant Usage: significant listings of current reference material on the comptencies of decision making and judgment
What’s it about? I want to thank Time Magazine for doing most of the work for me [...]
The Associated Press just ran a story about mentoring that may show up in your local newspaper this week. The AP headline is “Mentoring changes course of three careers.” The headline in your paper might be different. Here’s the lead.
“One chief executive tutors another. A mother on flex time shows her younger counterpart how to [...]
“Sticks and stones will break my bones but words will never hurt me.”
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Remember this old saying from childhood?
No doubt someone was saying something to you that could have been emotionally hurtful. Well, it seems this old saying really doesn’t have any scientific merit at all. In fact, recent research suggests that indeed feeling emotional hurt, [...]
As consulting has expanded and morphed into so many different types of services being delivered under the same banner, it begins to dilute any meaning in the banner. What is consulting? To some it’s providing expertise or facilitating some process. For others it’s providing extra workers to staff a project or taking over a certain [...]
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 career resources, job search success stories, [...]
There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTIONER
Title: decisions, decisions, decisions
Competency: decision-making
Who benefits: those interested in how each of us makes a decision
Consultant Usage: background material for coaching the decision-making competency
What’s it about: I love the numbers game “Sudoku”. I play the game on the Internet as [...]
Early on in my writing career, I thought my proofreading was meticulous. I’d read and re-read my material over and over again, because I myself judged others by their writing skills.
The problem was, I relied on my eyes which are super-sensitive to the tiniest of errors in other peoples’ work. However, I quickly learned these [...]