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 more productive, being an interesting [...]
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTIONER
Title: LearnOutLoud
Competencies: self-development, professional development, career development, leadership development, parenting and more
Who benefits: employees, managers and supervisors, executives, kids
Consultant Usage: any consultant reading this Blog is encouraged to click on this large resource for audio and visual products
What’s it about? Last week while writing about ITunesU I stumbled across this website. [...]
Who are you? What’s your personal brand?
If you’re employed, a personal brand is your identity. You want it to help you keep the job you have and advance to something better.
If you’re looking for work, a personal brand is the face you present to potential employers. You want it to show your strengths and employability.
That’s [...]
“If your all your friends jumped off a cliff would you do the same thing?”
Beverly Nowack
We sure are rooting for the guide dog puppy we are raising named Ajax to go on to become a leader for someone who is blind. Those who have guide dogs or any type of service dog need to totally trust and follow 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 one successful job search, giving a [...]
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTIONER
Title: A new way of learning
Competency: self development
Who benefits: those seeking alternative college education
Consultant Usage: self development; reference for career counseling
What’s it about? As some of you readers know and some of you may have guessed, I am an old fogy. I am on the other side of the hill. I [...]
The Washington Post made national news last night, and sadly, this time it wasn’t because of their outstanding journalism. Their integrity was called into question because of a marketing flyer distributed last week.
Publisher and CEO Katharine Weymouth addressed the issue directly through a “Letter to Our Readers” published on Sunday July 5th. In it, Weymouth [...]
Social media is a hot buzz phrase. Sometimes we talk about social media like they’re technology. Other times we act as if social media are a separate world, where “followers” are a goal and “to friend” is a verb.
If you think that way, you’ll miss the main advantage of social media. Used well, they can [...]
“Seeing within changes one’s outer vision”
Joseph Chilton Pearce
Our guide dog puppy in training named Ajax is still growing and expressing all aspects of his personality and interests (e.g., pushing rocks around our deck, finding joy in pulling down toilet paper rolls from the bathroom, exploring things in the sky that fly, and wanting to play [...]
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 helping your boss de-stress, keeping promises, [...]