“For myself I am an optimist — it does not seem to be much use being anything else.“ Winston Churchill,1954
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTITIONER
Title: The King of Optimism
Competency: self-development
Who benefits: you
Consultant Usage: all forms of coaching and career counseling; interesting stories to quote in training classes
What’s it about? Before launching into today’s topic full force, [...]
Who hasn’t wanted to be a superhero? It looks like fun.
You get to leap tall buildings at a single bound. Great stuff. Plus you can rescue your friends and save the Earth.
Now it’s entirely possible that some accident of fate has left you without those super powers you so richly deserve. Don’t worry. Don’t fret.
You [...]
“The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d druther not.”
Mark Twain
How Healthy Are Employees?
I recently did an analysis of a random sample of over 1,000 working professionals in diverse industries who have used our personal stress and health assessment [...]
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 interview questions, social media, unlocking your [...]
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTITIONER
Title: Motivation – New Insights
Competencies: motivation, managing others
Who benefits: those interested in understanding what motivates us
Consultant Usage: excellent material for training classes which address issues of employee motivation
What’s it about? My colleague Ken Nowack, who writes the other weekly column on this Blog, loves to present the “facts”. If you like [...]
It was one of the finest performances of Sir Laurence Olivier’s life. And it was as Hamlet, his signature role. So his friends were amazed, when they rushed backstage, to find him in tears, rhythmically pounding his fist into his thigh.
“Larry,” one of his friends asked, “What’s wrong? That was the finest performance of your [...]
“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 productivty1. Can leaders directly affect the health of talent to the extent that they are quickly [...]
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 communicating with your boss, a Free [...]
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTITIONER
Title: The Impulse Factor: An Innovative Approach to Better Decision Making
Competency: decision making/judgment
Who benefits: everyone
Consultant Usage: accompanying Impulse Factor Test can assist executive coaches, career counselors, and trainers
What’s it about? Are you a risk manager or a potential seeker … or somewhere in between? Do you dawdle and agonize over every [...]
After she breaks into the domicile of the Three Bears, Goldilocks makes herself at home. She eats their food, yummy porridge. More precisely, she eats some of it.
One bowl is too hot. Goldilocks passes on that one, along with the one where the porridge is “too cold.” Luckily for her, though not the bears, one [...]