“Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.”
Franklin B. Jones
At nine months of age, all guide dog puppies go in for their a formal evaluation. It really is feedback to the volunteer puppy raisers about how we are doing–a form of 360 feedback.
Feedback can be [...]
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 who’s finding work, networking, phone interviews, [...]
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTITIONER
Title: Business Best Sellers
Competency: self-development,
Who benefits: people who like to read as part of their development
Consultant Usage: background material
What’s it about? Points I will concede up front about today’s posting: (1) Professional Blogs are not supposed to be mushy; (2) I am over-the-top in sentimentality; (3) Nostalgia “ain’t” what it used [...]
Have you ever had a job you loved, but that just ripped you up? Or one where you loved the work, but the job was one draining, dramatic crisis after another?
Been there. Done that.
In my case, I’d get so wound up during the day that I had to do something physical before I got home, [...]
“If you don’t know where you are going you might wind up somewhere else”
Yogi Berra
I just finished two 3.5 day developmental assessment centers with a large University medical center and another with a state university system for high potential leaders. At the end of the assessment center, it was surprising to note that 10 to [...]
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 blacklisted, customizing your resume, preparing [...]
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTITIONER
Title: Improving worker performance in the US government
Competencies: leading, managing
Who benefits: leaders, managers, organizational consultants
Consultant Usage: general background material
What’s it about? February being a short month, today I begin with a short posting. I just discovered an article that I found interesting, well-researched and provocative. Can’t ask for much more than [...]
Friday it snowed in Charlotte. I was looking out my office window at the exact instant the snow began.
We knew the snow was coming. Several times during the day I went to the window to see if it was here yet. I looked at the lowering grey sky. I checked the wind, high in the [...]
“Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.”
Aaron Levenstein
Another addition of leadership and talent management “facts” from all over the world. Some are very intuitive and some are not….what do you think?
1. A recent 2009 survey of 372 human resources professionals by industry publication Workforce Management were asked about [...]
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 advice, when they don’t call [...]