“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
Mark Twain
In Towers Perrin’s 2007-2008 Global Workforce Study, 29% of the U.S. workforce was engaged, while just 6% were disengaged. By December, 2008, several months into the rapidly deepening recession, another study showed that engagement slipped to 22% and disengagement rose to 11%.
OK, everyone uses the [...]
This is the third in a series of articles on building your own word-of-mouth link campaign. To start at the beginning read Looking Differently at Links.
Social Networks & Blogs
Social networks – such as Live Journal, My Space, Facebook and many others – is a complex topic and each one offers a great number of possibilities [...]
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 self-employment, informational interviewing, tweeting your way [...]
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTIONER
Title: Career Transition Kit
Competencies: self-development, managing talent
Who benefits: employees losing their jobs, the unemployed
Consultant Usage: good aids in organization outplacement training or coaching
What’s it about? Today’s posting will be on the short side…that will greatly please my bosses! I am trying to stay employed. Aren’t we all? As I write this [...]
Last week, I blogged here about manners and how they can help you stand out from the crowd in today’s world. Manners are essentially the way you show respect for others.
But there’s also business etiquette, the common ways many business people expect you to act in certain situations. An unintentional breach of etiquette can cost [...]
“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
Mark Twain
A fairly recent State of the Industry Report by the American Society for Training & Development (ASTD) estimates that companies in the US spent nearly $130 billion on employee learning and development in 2007. That figure includes direct costs such as salaries for learning professionals, [...]
I’ve been talking about building a word-of-mouth link program and in this article I’ll take a closer look at places your potential buyers might hang out and what to do when you find them.
Message Boards
Message boards are really old school; they predate blogs and other social networks. They began in the 1980s back in 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 getting all your ducks in a [...]
As many of you know, I have a tendency to get very cranky about money being wasted on marketing. It’s just so dumb. With all the tools at hand for tracking, measuring, and optimizing marketing campaigns, there’s no reason to burn money.
Yet companies do it all the time.
And here’s one method that is particularly irksome: [...]
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTIONER
Title: Project Management Training and Books
Competency: project management
Who benefits: anyone in a project management assignment or projected assignment
Consultant Usage: may be useful as self-development
What’s it about? I know that a lot of you readers are involved in project or matrix management. So this week I have put together a list of [...]